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I recommend against using ace level AI with any of the warbirds (except maybe the Fw-190s since the AI is useless with them at any skill level). It just produces weird results. Challenge is good if it teaches you and makes you better, but having the AI just use completely insane, unrealistic physics isn't that.

At this point I know generally how to fly the Corsair, but I don't well understand how to fight with it. So far most of the tutorials I've seen are focused on basic airmanship, but I'm wondering if anyone has seen any good resources on tactics for it. Currently I'm finding it extremely challenging to defeat the Bf 109 K-4 since it doesn't seem like I can outrun it or out turn it.

Something I've also noticed is that it seems to take considerably more hits on this AA piece than others to kill it. Most WWII flak and even zu-23s seem to go up almost immediately but it takes a really sustained burst to shut the Type 96 down.

I think that must be what happened. I did a lot of hard dives in this particular mission and didn't know you had to manually reopen the cow flaps

Hi all, I'm still in the process of learning the corsair and am having a blast with it! I am having the issue that my engine keeps dying as I'm flying back from my missions and I'm trying to figure out why. I took screenshots of my dashboard at the time of the last engine death. I notice the cyl temp is very high - what should I be doing in this situation? Is that a cowl flap thing? I had tried lowering my rpm and manifold pressure based on this chart in the manual but I'm a little confused on other points of engine management whydidmyenginedie.trk

^ This. I'm just trying to update an old skin whose original author hasn't touched it since 2019 that I'd like to be able to use again.

Interesting! I will see if I can recreate the issue on a shorter track - thanks for looking into it!

Yeah my general rule of thumb is to totally avoid even touching it. In this case I had run through every other option I could think of to get the temperature down.

Hello all, I just had a mission in which my engine quit on a return flight across the channel. I was surprised because I was flying at 2800 RPM to conserve fuel for the return journey, which should be well below continuous power. I wasn't going really fast, but I was definitely not going so slow that the engine would overheat from lack of air flow. Nevertheless, the temps got over 110 C and stayed there. I'm wondering if anyone can give me any insight as to why the engine was overheating, and what I could do to stop it. I'm not saying anything is a bug here - more of a "what did I do wrong and how can I learn from it" type of thing. I did play through the track and take control to try manipulating the thermostat knob, but I accidentally turned it the wrong way and immediately killed the engine. I've attached the track, but it is quite long. Really the main info is in the below screenshots of the aircraft and instrument panel minutes before the engine failure. why did my engine overheat.trk

Hi All, Sorry - I looked for an existing thread but I could find one that wasn't years old so I started this one. Mods feel free to merge this thread with the proper one if it exists I'm playing through Eastern Friendship currently and am really enjoying it! That said I'm stuck on Mission 2 and could use some tactical advice. Whenever I go to hit the bunker at waypoint 3 I eat a MANPAD. I'm not sure how to avoid it because the ground elevation in the target area,s the low cloud ceiling, and the need to maintain a laser track for the GBUs combine to force you into the engagement envelope. I try to pre-flare rolling in but maybe I'm not doing a good job of that. I'm not really sure what else to do - what's a good strategy here? UPDATE: I managed to beat the mission, flying a higher attack profile basically.

+1 this would be helpful for a mission I'm making.

Yeah I recall Gunther Rall said the 109 was like a flueret and the 190 a cavalry sabre. It's a good way of thinking about it because it speaks to the comparative strengths of the two. You wouldn't duel with a heavy cavalry sabre, but a formation of cavalrymen charging can hit with astonishing force. Thanks to the advice of everyone here I'm starting to see the advantages better. It takes a lot of effort to get into the mindset of using your roll rate effectively, but once you do it's a fantastic defensive maneuver, which has the advantage of not bleeding your energy down to nothing. Spitfires don't worry me at all. They're so slow, that, as you can say, you can just leave the moment things aren't working for you and just reengage on your own terms. P-47s do just about everything worse so they don't bother me at all either. Only the Mustang has really troubled me because it does most things the D9 does just about as well. WRT to the 109 I think that plane will always be my first love. It's the first one I was ever able to win a challenging fight against. Last night I did a mission where I replcade the mustangs in the D9 "Dogfight" scenario with K4s and it was a really interesting fight. I won with the Dora, but it was quite something. They were extremely maneuverable but fast enough to be hard to lose.

lol what? I expressed some earnest frustration here, and people here have given me some advice and I have improved my understanding of this aircraft as a result. I would call this a pretty mature, successful discussion on the whole. And yeah, half the stuff you read about the Fw-190 pretty much does call it a super plane. Kursk was 1943, at which point the German pilot training hours were already noticeably fewer than they had been before, although not yet as bad as they'd be in 1944/45, and this was also no longer the VVS-KA of 1941 that had essentially no training, so no, I don't accept that mere disparity in training hours accounts for the difference. And, likewise, there were guys who had thousands of flight hours and hundreds of air combats who struggled to get to grips with the Fw-190. Gerhard Barkhorn was one such. 301 victories, but none of them with the Fw-190 despite being assigned to a Fw-190 later in his career.

I almost never play online. In all honesty I'm a big Fw-190 fan. I own a bunch of books about it and I love the engineering behind it. I just get demoralized that I can't make it perform like I've read in the history books. I mean you read about stuff like Jg 54 getting a 60:1 victory to loss ratio with the 190 over Kursk, or Eric Brown calling the D-9 one of the 20 best aircraft of all time, and it starts to really sting when you get shot down over and over. All that said I've picked up a few tricks in this thread that are definitely changing that experience.

Ahh okay thank you! That has confused me for ages.