A thank you to everyone in the community

[Raven Morpheus]

Hello all

I would to extend a very big thank you to everyone in the community that has offered me advice and help in learning to fly in IL2 1946.

Until recently, possibly due to bad equipment (Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X), no trim axis (only keyboard), and lack of understanding I found it difficult to land planes.

Now, after getting a Saitek X45, some advice and finding one seemingly vital piece of advice via google I seem to be able to land any plane.

The vital piece of info I found was that you should attempt to keep your landing speed to equal or just above the take off speed of the plane you're flying. So now I make a note of each planes take off speed just as I start to leave the ground and attempt to keep my landing speed just above or equal to it - and it works perfectly, so far.

Obviously I still have to be lined up right with the runway and not have holes in my wings causing all sorts of unwanted behaviour, like listing to one side (correctable by aileron trim if available) but I'm learning that also now - I find it's just a matter of finding things on the ground to sight my landing approach, like tips of islands (on Midway for example) or clumps of forests (like on the Berlin map).

So, again, thank you all. Without the community guys like me would still be floundering around.

[MaxGunz]

Did you get a part saying that if/when a wing drops that you use the rudder, not the ailerons to level the plane back out? And don't go by The Ball, just the horizon?

[Raven Morpheus]

Might have done. Can't recall. When I've been in a situation where I've been shot and I'm listing to one side I've found aileron trim works fine. I've been using rudder to correct on landing anyway, if/when I need to.

[MaxGunz]

Originally Posted by Raven Morpheus

Might have done. Can't recall. When I've been in a situation where I've been shot and I'm listing to one side I've found aileron trim works fine. I've been using rudder to correct on landing anyway, if/when I need to.

It's about stall angle. Aileron down makes that end of the wing have a higher angle to the wind. But if you're slow then before you get the extra lift, the wing you're trying to pick up may stall (nose high already because you're slow, aileron adds degrees to the outer wing) and the wing that was low goes lower and back and you end up in the ground after a half spin or less.

Older sims didn't have that.

See how slow you can fly while climbing and what it takes to hold that.
If the speedbar says 140 then you're flying less than 150. I land at 180 because my controls aren't so mushy and still below 200kph I use rudder to keep level. WTH, I don't like to rotate for takeoff at less than 190.