The Goat's Simulation Flight School

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by fuzzychickens

I've always wondered how realistic the stability was from plane to plane in the IL2 series.

Some of the german planes with nose mounted guns seem to shake too much. Planes like the Yak-3 have very little recoil for such a small plane - always suspected that was off.

It's not. The Yak-3 was one of the best Soviet gun platforms, they had, and even created. They had little recoil, and the pilots that flew them, said that the Yak-3 was a gem to fly because of it.