Tail wheel

[Sutts]

Guys, I'm pretty sure both Spitfire and Hurricane had non-locking, non-steerable, fully castoring tail wheels. I hope this is reflected in CoD.

I have read somewhere that this was more of a problem for the Hurricanes and that Hurricane's today often have a locking mechanism added for safety.

[xnomad]

The bf109 should have one. In the cockpit on the left wall there is a mechanism that looks a little like a bolt on a bolt action rifle, that's to lock the tail wheel. The button assigned doesn't work and that mechanism isn't click-able in the cockpit either.

In real life if you forgot to lock the tail wheel you were going to crash on take off or landing, and possibly even die.