Anatoli-Kagari9

Good idea. I do not have any recording software, but I will probably enable Nvidia Shadow PLay and record something one of these days...

Whenever I enter dogfight with the K-4, even at speeds above 400 km/h indicated, it's easy to get the aircraft buffeting, in tighter turns. Looking at the slats, they're deployed every time that happens. Is this WIP, or realistically modeled already ?

Maybe you were already experiencing an accelerated stall ?

It's very easy! [ame] [/ame]

In "simulator" mode is the HUD view active ? How do I get it ?

:thumbup: Nest step - landing it :-), and the 109 !

Yep! That's it - sorry!!! Just came from the ACG server - I was the only one there ...

A reference to that aircraft you had sent me the other day - remember I didn't even know it had existed ? Got the idea you had told me they had been used at IAF ?

And since you showed me that image of an IAR 80 / 81, I can understand even better why :-) KARMA!

Great News iron!!!!! Maybe tonight we can fly online... I am on my way home, now in the boat... in 30 min or even less I may be able to try to connect to the ACG WW2 server. Tag: JCOMM :-) - aircraft, I only have the K4 installed because I want to concentrate on that one :-) I do not use ammunition. When entering combat area, I pick an aircraft and fly after it trying to stay on it's tail as close as possible. Fly there for a while, in formation, and then, divert, trying to escape him when he get's back on me and trying to find another aircraft to do the same, or simply returning to Base.

... speaking of which I must say the lightness of the Stick in the Dora, at a wide range of speed ranges, mostly in pitch is simply remarkable. It's also probably the reason why a simmer, lacking the adequate forces acting on her / his body, will sometimes easily fall into an accelerated stall, and go upside-down...

Also, and since you're using the twist grip for rudder, make sure you define something as a 10 or 12 % curve in your yaw axis - it may help ...

That's it ironmaiden, although the aileron input is not necessary IMO. You just need rudder, during the acceleration, but above 170 km/h the aircraft is directionally stable already. Don't forget the 1st stage of flaps, irrespective of your Gross Weight. For landing, pass the threshold at 200km/h, and cut the engine. Gently pull the stick as it loses speed, constantly denying the ground and achieve a 3-point touchdown pitch... The speed will bleed off, and you will eventually settle... From there on, rudder and stick back to lock the tail wheel and stay on the rw. If you have to go around - Sloooooowly add throttle and ease on the stick, or torque and the high AoA will kill you after flipping you ...

OTOH, that's a very ingenious way of coping with those situations under which we simmers can frequently be caught at the PC "flying" the sim, instead of doing some home tasks... You can always say - "Sugar, I am here just looking at your beautiful smile in this photo ..."

As I can listen from Eric Brunotte's words in the ED interview, the D9 behaves somewhere between a glider / Mf109 and the A3 when it comes to landing, meaning, I believe, that ground effect is more effective keeping it "floating" along the rw as speed bleeds off, instead of falling heavily as he describes like " a piano from the 5th floor" when in the A3. All you have to do, IMO, is to reduce the speed to 200 km/h on short final, then cut the engine as you pass the rw threshold and gently start "denying" the ground, by using very sensible back pressure ( increasing ) on your stick to maintain the pitch necessary for the three wheels to touch the ground more or less at the same time.

Ah! Thx Yo-Yo, I thought it was what we call Cx here.

Sorry for the out-of-topic, but yes, the Mustang is a nice flyer, although having to constantly fiddle with the trims, and fuel tank selector, plus the management of the engine temperatures, makes it a lot less easy to operate than both the 109 and the 190...

Great ! This might certainly account also for some sort of CoG brought further behind than what it should using an empty MW50 tank! Looking forward for this fix !!! :thumbup:

Just for me to try to understand Yo-Yo, because other than that I agree the K4 can't be compared to older models, with inferior power / weight ratio, and so, I think the K4 in DCS, when correctly handled ( because it can be trickier than the p51d ), should indeed be able to out perform it's opponents, and I have successfully used it against both the p51d and the Fw190, this last one when the pilot starts using the wrong tactics... But, back to my question, what is "ballistic coefficient" ? Do you mean the same as "penetration coefficient" ?

Thx frumpy! I was able to get $10,00 discount on a purchase I did two days ago. Not bad :-)

That's the guy! And this is the video I was referring to. Yo-Yo and the rest of the ED team actually used the precious information in it to fine tune the 190. As much as I can be a true PITA for Yo-Yo and the forum admin here at ED when I start complaining about this or that flight characteristics in the sim, I am also one of the first to make positive exclamation about great chievements, and the Fw190 ( now final ) is indeed my preferred DCS module, by far. It's nice to see it's creator, Yo-Yo, trying to takeoff in it, just after Eric, and failing miserably :-) This shows, among other things, how honest his / and ED's approach is, when showing it openly in the video. It also serves as an incentive for those who think they're really bad virtual pilots when starting to use these DCS modules. It happened to me with the initial p51d, then the D9 and finally the 109... and it'll probably happen again when the Mk IX becomes available :-) [ame] [/ame]

Ehehe, Eric Brunotte :-) ww2 Ace who flew the Dora, among other... Somewhere here at the forums there's a link to a youtube video of an interview where he speaks about flying the 190 and the 109... A nice thread to read here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=128072&highlight=eric+brown+interview

Yes it's pretty much feet-on-floor. Each time I fly that aircraft in DCS Eric's words come to my mind - it's, my preferred aircraft ( and I only use the ww2 modules ).

I believe it's probably due to an adjustment in the brakes efficiency to allow for engine runs without the aircraft starting to move. The best option will probably be to set an axis curve, specially on cheap hardware like the one most of us use for rudder input, and use them without full deflection because that would correspond to the force applied by the pilot to arrest the aircraft during runnups.

Mine is, not at the forums, but at the office... And, why should debate have that negative grain you're putting on it ? I do not doubt that Yo-Yo is doing his work with dedication, and great effort to bring it up to the standards he has provided us with the final p51d, and the Fw190, but AFAIK, the K-4 is still work in progress - it's in Beta - so, I guess all contributions to make it as perfect as possible when released look positive to me. Then, as much as I like the K4 which happens to be the only module I am presently using with DCS, I also think there is something weird about it's tendency to pitch up, and, just as 5tuka pointed out, it is not necessarily any problem with the pitch ( stabilator ) trim... I don't know what it is - it simply doesn't feel plausible sometimes. And I have used it just as you describe sometimes, setting the trim at a practically fixed position for the whole "flight" and being able to use the aircraft without much problem, but, when some conditions are met, the pitching up moment is there again, and I would really like to find out why ? Of course it can be a native characteristic of this particular aircraft, and Yo-Yo in one of his recent posts wrote, exactly, "why don't you listen to Klaus Plasa"... Believe me I would feel even more happy if I could find that these pitching up moments are indeed there because they're absolutely accurate and according to the real thing.