4.11 F4U Performance

[LesniHU]

Originally Posted by h0MbrE

Comments like this are a good way to turn this into a flame war. This opinion could have been expressed in a much less disrespectful way. Let's please try to keep this respectful of one another. Can you give more details as to the procedure you used in your takeoff? What were your flap settings? Prop pitch? Fuel mix? Carrier speed? Wind speed and direction? These would be helpful details. To just say "I can do it and you need to be a better pilot" are detrimental to this entire discussion.

You are right.
It was 50km/h carrier speed into 10m/s wind with F4U-1A, 100% fuel+178gal droptank, takeoff flaps, radiator fully open, canopy open and seat up position. There are no tricks, just full power at full rpm and takeoff.

However lets look on context: there is someone here who starts the thread with "F4U is nerfed!" and uses a video as a proof. A video which shows a corsair takeoff from unknown point on deck (plane is already moving when takeoff recording starts!) and claims that its impossible in game and challenges others to try it. I tried it because I though it's a bug report, but now it looks that this case was usual cries or random people on internet without any hard data to support. I never claimed that I am super pilot (I'm not) and that makes result of this takeoff challenge even more sad. OTOH sawyer692 claimed that his whole squadron is in the very post I was answering to so telling him that he need better references (because this video does is not good) and better pilot (if I can do it I'm sure a squadron specialized in this plane could do it too) is only thing anyone could answer him.

Also, for record, expect high speed characteristics "nerfed" with low speed acceleration improved, thats how it is in both game and real life.

@sawyer692: you probably meant 3 posts in two days, not years, and you forgot to write that other two were with il2c data upload and helping a user in effort to solve his crashes. If your's opinion is that your posts help more than mine and that more posts makes better person, fine, I can live with it. Just do not post untrue information.