Tracer color and number of tracers vary from plane to plane depending on the armament. If you fly planes with large cannons and slow rate of fire, you rarely see tracers, if you fly planes with many smaller caliber guns like the P47 or the early Hurricanes, you will see a lot of tracers. You should also know that different guns have different tracer colors. While the Cal50 on US-planes are red or orange, most German planes use blueish tracers.
It also depends a lot from the angle of view. The tracers are a lot better visible from the sides than from directly behind or in front of the aircraft.
the tracers on this sim are generic, isn't ?
as well as flak.
I never see many german guncam color footage, and the few ones I see the tracers where yellow.
I saw only one video where I see USAAF P-47 footage where the tracers where red, like we have on the sim. but, generally, in the rest of USAAF footage where yellow.
flak is also with somekind of orange, while in all the real footages I see it was black.
Hat tip to crucislancer here:
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...1311032046/p/1
The link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040515010703/http://free-s....hr/dvd/Weapons.html
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Originally posted by Wildnoob:
the tracers on this sim are generic, isn't ?
as well as flak.
I never see many german guncam color footage, and the few ones I see the tracers where yellow.
I saw only one video where I see USAAF P-47 footage where the tracers where red, like we have on the sim. but, generally, in the rest of USAAF footage where yellow.
flak is also with somekind of orange, while in all the real footages I see it was black.
Tracer color was generated by the chemicals they contained. That's why different countries tracers had different colors. Because they contained different chemicals. Some countries even used tracers of different colors or brightness for night operations.
I read somewhere about the Finns loading the gunner stations in Ju-88's with tracers only. German bright tracers, to scare away the Russian fighters.
Tracers still come in multiple colors and brightness today. Judging the color of the tracers by what you see in 50 years old film is rather bad way of doing the research. The tracers is seen one way with the human eye and can be reproduced differently by the film, depending on many factors like exposure time, chemicals used in developing the film or depreciation over time.
The best is to look for the historical accounts or better research the exact chemicals used in any type of tracers.
http://www.hi-vel.com/Catalog__18/Tr...mmunition.html
http://ammunitiontogo.com/catalog1/p...roducts_id=165
20rds - 7.62x39 Green Tracer Ammo $29.95
"This tracer is a traditional Soviet green tip tracer and will start to trace bright green right out of the barrel and will continue to trace for 400 yards. It has a very bright green trace and can be seen day or night. This tracer is made to true Soviet military tracer specifications. It is completely safe to shoot in your weapon."
http://www.privatedata.com/byb/pyro/pfp/tracers.html
"used to love takling soviet blue and green 7,62 tracers and load them into 7,62x51 cases and mix them in a blet of M62 US tracer and watch the virtual rainbow of blue/green/red love floating and bouncing downrange."
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtop...st=0&sk=t&sd=a