Soviet fighters and 4.12

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Originally Posted by IceFire

I think for some reason the elevator does not have full travel on the La-5FN while it does on all of the other types. There may be some programming difference as the La-5FN was the first of the series to be introduced into IL-2 and the La-5, La-5F, and La-7 were all introduced later (first appearing in Forgotten Battles if I'm not mistaken).

That is what I thought too at first and I tested it a lot - but that doesn't seem to be the cause, the FN elevator has the same authority as other versions as you can pull same accelerations at certain speeds ... what I found was that at same G turn (lets say 3G at 400 kph, level turn at 2000 m, crimea map no cockpit view) FN turns at lower AOA than any other version, in the end practically never exceeding critical AOA that will stall you. I don't recall exact numbers as I did those tests some 3 years ago and sent my report + tracks to DT. I was given the answer, that FM will be overhauled with all Lavochkins at once, but I doubt it will happen any time soon ... so it would be nice to at least have current flight models inline.