not offended.

The 109G6 vs la5fn and yak 9d ( or B , the uber one) scenario it is familair for me. i play aroudn 200 missions 1 hour long in such. our planeset was 2 FW mdoels and 2 109s models. so 25% of th eitme luck draw me a 109g6. Let me tell you those were the worst and hardest missions.

i would come in high ( 6000 meters or so. and check the area, usually rushing the objective, or an intereption point ( if we were escorting bombers or intercepting) to make sure i was the highst bloke around. thsi worked preatty well. if i found them on time i would be high were they arent expect me to be whilst still climbing. BnZ till i loose my advantage ( offensive BnZ, not the slow paced one) and then dive for a lower altitude hoping they would follow me to a lower alt, were they would have a nice pack of 190s waiting for some meat. I woudl usually do this alone, not becouse im good. but a single fighter was harder to spot, i could go faster and all that lone wolf stuff.

tech data? i would stay relatively slow. i wouldnt go over 700 kmh in hte dive. shallow dives, 30 - 45º, i would aim my passes so i was level while shooting, and would loop at about 200 km/h. this blees a lot more energy on the loop phase, but keeps saves a lot in the dive.

but this is me hunting.

when defensively ( same level, surprised, no friends around) i would dive away to 0 km. i was slightly faster there. and i could dive better. if he still manage to get me, i would drag him to scissors. its a desperate move but if he falls for it, i win, if he doesnt im in some trouble, but still possible to work around.

my K/d ratio on 109 g 6was about 2 /3 - 1. but in this plane i was more prone to accidents. and i died a lot in bombing sorties.


I used to love that campaign.. .the good old days :grin:

Could you open a separat thread for such discussions please? This is already a cramped place. Thanks! ;-)

Please add to HOTAS settings Fuel mixture because i cant't set this to any of axis in 1.10.1 Thanx

Thanks for the hard work on the patch DT. :)

One little thing just occured to me the other day. The tube-sight in the SBD actually has a slip indicator around the bottom edge. I don't recall this being modeled in il-2. There is an image in a book, but I can't find it online, and I'll try to scan it.

Furthermore, those types of sights on these and other aircraft may not actually be "telescopic" in the sense that they provide magnification, but the pilot looks with both eyes so that with one eye he sees crosshairs projected on infinity and with the other, keeps track of the moving target. The overall effect is similar to that of the crosshairs projected on glass. If it's true, then the view through these sights should look like those of the Aldis sights in Rise of Flight.

What about more turbulences?
 

What about more atmospheric effects like increasing turbulences (in general) and especially in hot weather maps?

You can adjust turbulences and gust in FMB since 4.10.
One is low altitude and one is high altitude atmosphere effect (I'm not knowing at the moment, which one is which).

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/8987/grab0116.jpg

Altitudes here are chosen by the regular real life hapenings.
Dynamic changings during mission is not possible though.

That rocks!
 

Wow, this rocks: i will spend more time in the fmb to check this, many thanks Caspar!

Hi all, will the "propwash effect" be included in 4.11 (or maybe 4.12)?
best regards,
Gianluca

As TD have updated the FMB waypoints, I've got a quick but very useful request for 4.12.

Please could you include a "no strafing" option on the attack waypoint. At the moment B-25J's for example will drop their bombs and then descend from high altitude to strafe the target - this is obviously extremely unrealistic.

Also there are times when one wants even dedicated attack aircraft to just drop their ordnance and exit the target area e.g. when there is heavy flak.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Yeah, good idea! I was building a mission with B-25s and had to give up due to this issue. "No strafing" would be excellent for Ground Attack waypoints in this case, so they drop their bombs and follow to the next waypoint.