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Did you flip the safety switch cover on the joystick? Not the master arm switch but the safety. You have to do both for the 109 ... I think the 190 they did it automatically when you pressed the trigger.

Good thing is its easier to land than the Dora lol.

That is nice diveplane ... its not in the release yesterday?

So far it seems easier than the Dora but its different for everyone. Trim full nose down, open radiator, and when it lifts off push the nose down because this bird really wants to climb. Auto on the prop and don't exceed 2500 rpm like others have said.

You can probably change your picks and select something that is out now if you don't want to wait. It's probably 2 or 3 months if the current release trend keeps up for the Spitfire and most likely 2nd qt for the P47. There may also be a Christmas sale sometime this month but I'm not sure on that.

Funny I always lose the left wing.

Or get off the forest floor and climb to have an altitude advantage. All this crying about boost or octane ... it probably isn't going to change the turn time enough for those dreaming of their Mustang being like the Spitfire or P-38. I've never seen Dora's slaughtering Mustangs and I imagine the same will be true of the 109. It will come down to the pilot to exercise energy discipline and learn to fight to their planes abilities.

The right cannon isn't firing at all? That would be a bigger problem than not having muzzle flash but would explain it.

Its how I did my taxi in the Dora ... hit the throttle alittle bit in the turns and away we went. I just unlock the tail wheel in the 109 because it doesn't seem to have enough brakes/rudder to turn locked. No problems unlocked.

Pretty much what I was saying ... Mustang pilots will finally have to learn to have altitude and speed just like the Dora pilots. This doesn't mean flying up to 7000m but I almost always fly in the 3k-5k range just to have a realistic shot of beating a good Mustang pilot in the Dora. You need to have around a 1000 meters of altitude to retain an energy advantage against the Mustang in a Dora. Mustang pilots will need to have an altitude advantage now or at least altitude so they can dive away ... just like Dora pilots if they get in trouble. I haven't flown the 109 enough to be positive but I get the feeling that the Mustang is still the best overall WWII plane in DCS at the moment. It's general speed at most altitudes other than tree top level, dive speed, climb, turning, visibility, and gunsight make it better than both German planes with the combination of these things. The Mustang may not beat both planes in every category but it will beat each German plane in something that it can use to its advantage.

Are you sure you've unlocked the tailwheel? Its a lever on the left hand side above the trim wheel. I don't think the K-4 unlocks the tailwheel by just pulling back the stick like in the Dora.

So what all info do you need to have to put in a feature request? Any chance for the AB250, SC250, and R4M (Dora/262) being put in?

The K4's climb rate is better than the Dora so when facing the Ai Mustang with a zoom tendency its an easy kill. We'll have to wait to see how the K4 does against good piloted P-51s to see that statement be true. K4 appears its slower than the Dora at lower altitudes and didn't seem to have a great dive speed so getting out of trouble may be much harder. K4 may finally force P-51 pilots off the ground and have to use real tactics like having a height/speed advantage. Alot of them relied too heavy on the Mustang out turning the Dora for defense and the K4 may equalize that.

I did have a couple single shot pilot kills also from the 100m to 200m range or ones that required just a couple of hits to bring down the plane.

Are you talking about the R4M rockets?

I did alittle testing on the 30mm cannon on the P-51 Ai today which we should all know doesn't have the same DM as the player version. It's a little hard to really get a great accuracy test in the 109 due to its tendency to pitch up even with full trim in the second position. It changes the angle of the shot which means pretty much anything 400m+ is going to require great aim or a lucky shot with the limited ammo.

They are going to stick the 21cm mortars on the Dora and I haven't seen anything to say that it ever happened.

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They changed the multiplayer chat functions also ... you will need to change it back to tab or alt tab if you want it the old way.

Definitely feels like something ... paper would at-least bend before ripping apart. I agree with others here that I never had a problem with the Mustang unless I tried to pull up from a very fast dive and you had to do some incredibly stupid stuff to pull off the wings in a Dora unless they are damaged. I've probably eaten some Chinese fortune cookies that were tougher than the wings of this BF109.

Not impressed so far with the 30s ... not going to cry bloody murder yet because I've played enough modules that sometimes it takes practice. I've quickly killed one ai with the 30s and registered many hits on another Mustang with no effect. My main problem atm is that when I'm getting hits they don't show up ... meaning no visual evidence of a hit. Now I do have to say that the MG131 are very effective now especially compared to what we had on the Dora.

Beta was released yesterday ... today they announced the official release which shouldn't require beta download.

If you can't takeoff using the full blast method try a more moderate acceleration where you take the acceleration up in small steps. You really only need to get her up to about 27-3000 rpm to easily takeoff on these airfields. Apply right rudder before you even start and make mild but quick adjustments with your rudder pedals. Slowly drop the tail about 150kph so its easier to control.

Your forgetting the Dora release then ... we had the Mustang for how long before the Dora came along and that release got delayed. Atleast we've had new blood in the water in the last 5 months.

Unfortunately human P-51 players don't fly like the AI so deflection shooting is constantly used in the Dora when playing online. I find it incredibly easy to kill the Ai Dora with the Mustang... usually 2 turns and blow it out of the sky when it tries a climbing turn.