I managed a blackout last night whilst flying a Finnish B-239 Buffalo in a career mission on IL-2 "Forgotten Battles".
I'd flown a few missions with this aircraft but never had to actually pull any serious stunts or evades with it until then.
I was chasing a Russian L2D tansport plane when a Russian P-40 latched onto my tail. Without thinking, I instinctively I rolled to 90 Degrees left and pulled back hard on a stick. This made the Buffalo pull a 100 yard radius left turn at close to 300 MPH.... and the G-force blacked me out for 4 seconds.
A normal fighter would have pulled a far wider several hundred yard radius turn and not pulled the same G-force, hence why I performed the maneuver.
Fortunately the Buffalo is famous for being unable to spin both in real life and in simulators, so the plane didn't do anything bad by itself. I also had plenty of altitude
The Russian P-40 was nowhere to be seen, obviously being unable to follow.
I'd lost my fix on the transports and the other Finnish fighters were rapidly wiping the sky clear of Russian aircraft, so I decided to shoot up an airfield I'd spotted earlier. I score 5 grounded aircraft, all the FlaK guns and a few trucks before the guns ran dry. I always use up the nose guns first and then use the wing guns when straffing as it gives more firing time.
In IL-2 BOP on the 360, I've had a cockpit hit on a Me-163 Komet cause what seemd like an Oxygen tank failure during a dogfight at 30,000 Feet plus. The cockpit area was black and there was the sound of gasping for air and haziness around the screen edges until I dropped to around 10,000 Feet.
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