right wing keeps dipping down

[BadAim]

Originally Posted by StreetGang

I was trying to trim the hurricane as it was also pulling annoyingly to the right, though I've read that the hurricane doesn't even have aileron trim, is that right ?

This was with wind turned off and no joystick plugged in. I had also wrongly mapped the 'notch' aileron right and left functions instead of the trim functions. So every time I'd move the yoke, from my perspective, the trim would reset and I was baffled until I figured out I wasn't actually trimming. Then even more annoyingly after I had mapped 'trim' it wasn't making an effect on the hurricanes ailerons anyway.

Are we supposed to fly the hurricane with a constant left leaning ?

I'm not sure about your gaming background, but COD is meant to be a flight simulator, and a simulator of the most powerful and dangerous machines of their day (they commonly killed their own pilots at alarming rates), irl these aircraft took many months of training to just fly competently, and even then few mastered them.

So, to answer your question simply........yes.

[b101uk]

I think you may find the constant slight turn to the right with the hurricane is because the rudder is from the off trimmed slightly to the right of centre rather than by default at 0 trim, if you trim the ruder (ctrl + z or x) it stops this constant slight turn to the right.

[StreetGang]

Originally Posted by BadAim

I'm not sure about your gaming background, but COD is meant to be a flight simulator, and a simulator of the most powerful and dangerous machines of their day (they commonly killed their own pilots at alarming rates), irl these aircraft took many months of training to just fly competently, and even then few mastered them.

So, to answer your question simply........yes.

Ah, well I wouldn't exactly call myself an overly hardcore simmer, I like to dabble mostly, with hopes of being hooked again. I started on LHX Attack Chopper and Chuck Yeager back in the day, moved on to 1942 Pacific Air War, Falcon 3 and US Navy Fighters, found the original IL2 and played that for a bit. In between 1946 sorties I've messed around with Lomac/Flaming Cliffs and recently have bought Blackshark and the new A-10 sim but I've yet to play them to any great degree. I completely passed by the Janes and SU27 games though. My favourite has to be 1942, even though IL2 is great, my fondest memories were with Pacific Air War, probably because it was my first real sim.

So yeah I do understand these machines are essentially bricks with wings that require some modicum of skill to operate.

Rudder trim seems to have helped a bit, I just wasn't using it enough.

Strangely, the 'quick flight - england free flight', I didn't have a problem with for 5 - 6 attempts before, now starts me off with a borked engine, flames coming out of the exhausts and oil splatted all over the pit after about 10 seconds, then the engine loses most of it's power, weird.