I tend to practice with the F4U on Midway. I had, or so I thought, gotten landings down pretty well, at least I had when I was using my Saitek X45 stick. But just recently, especially since moving to my Saitek X52 Pro, I can't seem to land the F4U on Midway most of the time. Problem is if I go back to using my Saitek X45 (to see if it is the stick that is making the difference) I can't use the throttle block because it's got a dodgy connection (well the connection in the joystick block is dodgy, but still means I can't reliably use the throttle block), thus if I go with the throttle from my X52 Pro and the stick from my X45 I lose the 3 modes function (the X45 has the modes button on the throttle block, and the X52 Pro has it on the stick!!)
Midway, apart from the fact it's a short runway, is actually quite a good test map for landings in my opinion, because you can take off, then circle around to the left, getting up to >200mph in the F4U, and cross the tip of the 2nd island (which is on your left) and be fairly well lined up with the runway and at about 180mph.
As for being "competitive" with a single plane - I defy anyone to be "competitive" with 20-1 odds! Or if for some reason your screen goes black (not a blackout btw) and you have to switch to another view whilst unknowingly heading for the side of a mountain!?!
Anyhow I tend to find that IL2 becomes boring after a while if I just stick to 1 plane, however the missions I played the other night just really were not enjoyable and have to some extent put me off IL2 for the moment.
The very fact that the B5N I caused to vent black smoke, and whilst I was watching it, after I had been forced down, had a prop that wasn't even moving, but was still flying perfectly fine is also very annoying - that should have been a kill but the plane was still flying in formation as though it was indestructible!?!
Last edited by Raven Morpheus; 08-29-2014 at 11:28 PM.
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