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SkyCaptain109

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  1. After a weekend of practise I can now take off and land the Spitfire safely without wing dipping and crashing.:) The trick on landing was for me to keep a little bit of throttle until the last moment before touchdown. The touchdown must be as gentle as possible and in a straight line. Immediately after touchdown keep her straight with rudder and brakes. I use the fighter approach as described in the manual. On take off I start with full right aileron to counter the tendency of the aircraft to roll left due to the torque effect and with stick neutral. As the speed increases I decrease right aileron to keep wings level and play with rudder to keep her straight. She will lift off by herself in a tail low attitude. No need to push the stick forward, the tail will lift automatically with stick in neutral position.
  2. I have just downloaded the Spitfire and trying to take off and land...... Very tricky. After several crashes I have managed to take off regularly without crashing. The trick for me is to set elevator trim to zero, full right rudder trim and keep the stick in NEUTRAL position. As the aircraft accelerates be all over the rudder trying to keep her straight. Failing to do so usually results in a ground loop. When the tail wants to lift up counter the torque effect with right aileron and gently pull on the stick. Landing is a different story, still practicing.....:lol: I set my pitch curvature to 60, saturation both 100. Less curvature is too sensitive for me. I have a Thrustmaster Hotas. Still not happy with my joystick settings. Does anyone have tips for my setup?
  3. I really like the added control stiffness at high speed. Rudder isn't affected, too sensitive at high speed. Hopefully they will correct it in the future. I also noticed that during high g turns, if you overstress the airframe, the tailwheel will be pushed out. Nice detail:thumbup: I don't like the new landing gear animation, both wheels up/down at the same time and way too fast. It was far more realistic in the previous version, like the real 109 landing gear: Both wheels retracted/raised asynchronously. . Please go back to that.
  4. Did you turn on the electric fuel pump on the circuit breaker panel?
  5. Dogfights is much too exaggerated but this episode was good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spOlkk205Qk
  6. Where do you do it? I can't land or take off off the grass because the aircraft flips over.
  7. First landing is really smooth, last landing of a Bouchon aborted and go around Very bouncy on the grass! First landing looking really dangerous!
  8. When flying the P-51 against the Dora I feel that it can easily outroll me and get out of my gunsight at any speed. Turn performance is close and I think that it depends on pilot ability. Once I turned with a Dora down on the deck at the edge of a stall, had 20° of flaps and he couldn't get his guns on me instead he spun out and crashed. When I was in the Dora I couldn't outturn the Mustang and it seemed easy for him to stay on my tail. He got some strikes and finally after heavy turning and scissoring I spun out.....:joystick: The Dora can climb like a rocket and can easily outclimb the Mustang the best tactic would probably be doing vertical maneuvers.
  9. According to the manual a drop of 80RPM is acceptable but I always have a drop of several 100RPM. Anyone else with this problem?
  10. Did some more testing: During taxi and run up I switched the electric fuel pump off, the engine didn't quit which is correct. But in flight the engine still quits, however at low power settings it takes a while.
  11. You don't have to worry about fuel management. Keep the fuel cock in the "Auf" position and the electric fuel pumps "On". The aircraft takes care of it. Just switch the corresponding electric fuel pumps of when a tank is empty to avoid them running dry. Of course when no drop tank is installed you don't need the drop tank electric fuel pump so leave that in the "OFF" position. I think the DCS manual is rather confusing
  12. The 109 is quite easy to fly in the landing pattern and easy to flare at a three point attitude but after that......:music_whistling:
  13. I had some dogfights in the 109 against human P-51 online and I must say that it is pretty close. I feel that the turn performance is close, I was at the edge of a stall in the 109 turning with a P-51 which used it's flaps and I was able to follow but I could not turn inside him. The P-51 has good acceleration in dives and a good instantaneous turn at high speed. In a shallow climb I will normally catch the mustang but only with MW50 engaged. So to sum up I would say that it depends on pilot skill:pilotfly:
  14. The 109 seemed to be a tail heavy aircraft. In his own words: http://youtu.be/qLrpcamspLw?t=4m4s
  15. I have a pilot account which describes taxiing in the 109. It is from a modern pilot who was flying "Black Six".
  16. Engine Stall after T/O Hey ViKe, you have to be careful not to overspeed the engine, do not exceed 2600-2800 RPM and keep the prop pitch in manual and set it to 12:00 for take off. After lift oft reduce pitch to 11:30 and do your initial climb and clean up the aircraft. Then when you have reached your climb speed set prop pitch to auto.
  17. I read through the manual for the Bf109 F, which mentions a cold start system, actuated by the mechanics through a lever outside: When starting in cold weather fuel is allowed into the oil system to make the oil thinner, which leads to lower oil pressures. Obviously in the Bf109 K4 the lever is in the cockpit actuated by the pilot. So it's like the oil dilution switch in the Mustang.
  18. After reading the Bf109 Workshop Manual by Malcolm Lowe and Paul Blackah I can confirm, that the electric fuel pump is only used for take off and landing, so the engine should not quit after turning it off. P1+P2 are no fuel pumps, only fuel lines including filters. Still don't know what the winter start handle does.
  19. I tried it. P1+P2 selected, electric fuel pump circuit breaker out--> Fuel pressure drops and engine quits. That should not happen because there is still the engine driven fuel pump.
  20. According to the original manual the electric fuel pump is only used during T/O and landing as a back up for the engine driven pump and at high altitudes to prevent vapor lock. So the engine shouldn't quit when you turn it off in low level flight. In the DCS Manual it says that the P1+P2 are fuel pumps which I think is not correct. They are just fuel cocks allowing the engine driven fuel pump to take the fuel from the rear and front part of the fuel tank. Those are different fuel lines including their own fuel filters. This system must be checked prior to take off.
  21. In the original manual it says that you have to turn on the electric fuel pump when the fuel pressure at high altitudes drops below a certain pressure, so this means the electric fuel doesn't have to be switched on all the time. But when I switch it off after T/O the engine quits.:cry:
  22. I find it helpfull to aply full brakes after touchdown, aileron into the wind and all over the rudder. When getting slower use differential braking to keep it straight.
  23. I have a few questions about the electrical fuel pump: In the manual it says the electrical fuel pump must not be run for more than 30 seconds, so do I have to turn it off after T/O? When I do this the fuel pressure drops and the engine quits which I don't understand because P1+P2 fuel pumps are running? And also what is the winter start handle all about? I know it's used for cold weather start up but what does it do? How does it work?
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