AndyJWest

Mosquito

My first successful landing - came in rather fast though. :ermm:

Many thanks to cichlidfan for his generosity - the Huey will have a good home. :D I'm airborne :pilotfly: The copilot doesn't seem impressed by my first landing :cry_2: I'm clearly going to need time to master this beast...

A UH-1H Huey would be nice. :thumbup:

A climbing flat spin? Difficult, as the aircraft is stalled (or at least, one wing will be). As for 'roll speed', an aircraft doesn't roll in a flat spin, it yaws. I think you may have got your terminology mixed up somewhere.

At a given speed and rate of turn, the G force is fixed. Flaps make no difference whatsoever.

BBQ, Luthier explains all that in the first post. He's in the process of finalising how rewards are selected.

Regarding the 'elliptical wing effect', it is worth remembering that the Spitfire has noticeable washout too - something like 3 degrees, from memory. Consequently, the wing root should generally stall before the tips.

That was what I was wondering. As I see it, there shouldn't be any. There might possibly be a slight 'tug' on whatever holds the rocket in place, but beyond that, I can't see why there should be anything at all.

I don't expect unguided HVAR rockets to be particularly accurate - but having a recoil so they consistently miss targets to one side or the other seems a little strange to me. Anyone else have a comment?

Before that, you have to get to the runway: :music_whistling: From Bombs Away: WW II Eighth Air Force Stories http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8dwiwH26FFYC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=me+262+towed+by+cows&source=bl&ots=pKZjjZku-B&sig=P8GIuMlnOZxCQm9QLpIKCJ0mzqg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hDNPUtvRF-nH0QXhtYGYAg&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=cow&f=false

Anyone prepared to make a serious effort to develop maps for DCS:WW2 probably deserves the sim for free.

I'd have thought that a cockpit layout that required the pilot to physically lower his whole head to see the instruments needed a little redesign. Doesn't just nodding forward work?

The P-51 should be in ...DCS World\Mods\aircrafts\P-51D\Doc If you can't find them there, you should be able to download them from here: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/documentation/

Whatever. If you really think that yet more confusion about what the Kickstarter rewards currently are is going to help, who am I to argue....

@DavidRed: Nope. If Luthier wants help, I'm sure he'll ask for it. Meanwhile, this poll gives an entirely false impression regarding what the options are, and who gets to chose. At the moment, the only person in a position to choose anything is Luthier.

"he better decides quick what to do". Possibly. but it is his decision, not yours. This poll can cause nothing but confusion, and should be deleted, in my opinion.

Isn't it a bit premature to be running a poll before Luthier has even decided whether he's going to do this? And come to that, shouldn't the poll be amongst Kickstarter backers only?

Map. Frankly, I think Luthier might do better to postpone the B-17 until the general viability of the project is more secure. It is going to involve a great deal of work, and simpler aircraft should provide a return on investment sooner.

Luthier, my honest answer - as someone still undecided how much I can justify pledging on a very limited budget - has to be that making wholesale changes at this late stage doesn't really inspire confidence. If the 'three free planes' proposal isn't financially viable, then clearly it will have to go - but I can't see how doing this would result in increased Kickstarter funding.

So far, there is no evidence whatsoever that anyone can be 'blamed' for anything.

Does anyone know what sort of wood they made Spitfires out of?

Nope - refraction raises the effective viewpoint of the pilot.

If you think this is a 'lengthy debate' you should probably look at the ones on the IL-2 forums. They went on for years. Hopefully someone can come up with some hard facts (i.e. a photograph showing the actual view through the windscreen) and avoid the same here. As to whether it actually matters, anything that allows you just a couple more degrees downward visibility may sometimes be significant - it can make the difference between getting a deflection shot in, and not actually being able to see the target. Anyway, the video was a brief alpha/beta shot, and as yet we don't even know if there is any real problem.