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I'm still hoping for Abbottabad Pakistan. Even if it's an isolated island.

This helicopter will be flying in BSD without any doubt. We're ready when you are.

When the pair of enemy spawns I'm using an :OnSpawnGroup() function to set an attack task (TaskAttackGroup) on the group that spawned them which you can get from the clientmenu class. This has been working great up until the last update. Since that, the -2 flakes out and dips. Before the update this didn't occur.

Thanks for the reply. I'm using MOOSE for this actually, and it's a two ship group. I wonder if I'd have better luck spawning two singles. Perhaps it would bypass this behavior?

Is anyone else seeing this since the last update? At BVR distance (70nm), the pair splits up after activating. Often with several miles between them. The enemy group is expressly given a task to attack you in this case. The option in the group to override AI disengage decision is set. Once the -1 element is shot down, the -2 turns toward the nearest airfield and disengages. Sometimes but not always, both of them will disengage if they are near enough to a neutral airfield. Anyone else seeing this?

I hear ya. The Corsair is supposed to be an energy fighter, not a slow speed turner, which the Zero was. Instead, all of the AI energy fight us, and since they have access to some other universe's physics, they win. While this gets sorted out, I do think there's fun to be had with ground attack, and all the naval assets @Devil 505 is pointing us to. There's a stunning visual experience there. I'll throw some bat bombs & rox in the meantime. Why not.

The AI on the jet side do some absolutely crazy things too, but it's way, way less extreme than in the warbirds situation. I dove in chase, trailing a diving zero (could not catch up) and wound up ripping MY wings off.

I agree. They really need to fix this. It's not just out of step with history; it's out of step with physics itself. And not slightly either. It's discouraging, and it threatens the (otherwise excellent) WW2 pacific theater concept that ED is trying to bring to market.

I know this guy. He's pretty cool.

None. Can you move on now? This thread isn't here for this.

Instead of arguing the particulars of one specific plane at a time, address why the corsiar comes in second from the last. If you're claiming that it should in fact come in second to last in this kind of comparative testing against all of these other aircraft, then okay. The issue here is the claim that the corsair isn't showing as much speed as it ought to. This video more or less bears that out, and there's also a second one where they test it with the 4200rpm secret extra power technique (where it wins unrealistically and dramatically) as well as an included control, which produces the same result as the first video.

Really nice, thank you!

It is. I meant to say the FW-190. I just confused them. And in this video it comes in second to last which doesn't seem correct to me.

Look into the p47 please.

Ultimately the comparative is the bigger picture. A BF-109 or even a P-47 easily outrun it. And they should not. All of these performance numbers and their follow on effects don't exist in a vacuum. They are also comparative, and it is those comparative aspects that wind up being more (singularly) important because they alone wind up defining the use case for any airplane in DCS that flies against another one. The success of a DCS module hinges on whether it rests correctly in its historical place as much or more than the accuracy of its technical absolutes.

Tuning by manual frequency seems to only give you the agana airfield. If you go by channel, you can configure the carrier's frequency in the ME and set the ARR preset to the same thing and it will work. Set the unit name of the carrier (default is Naval-1-1) to something like ESX-1-1 and it will transmit the first three letters as your ident trigram.

Their testing also shows that there's something up, whether it's the rpms being misreported or what. Regardless, neither a bf-109 nor a fw-190 should outrun this airplane at sea level. At "presently indicated" 2700rpm, they do so easily. It could also be that the rpms and the torque curve produced by it aren't lining up as they should. None of us have any information to really say. All we can do is observe: "it should be faster than these other airplanes, and it isn't."

Looking at some of the tactics used by all allied aircraft of the day to defeat the zero. This would have been used by the corsair too.

I haven't tried the zero. No I don't think the default is at all accurate. There's no way this plane can go from a sustained turn straight into the vertical time after time. There are zero skins for the corsair, so I may try that. The AI corsair is so powerful we would have a hard time killing it with a jet. ETA - it takes 1550kg of weight on the AI Corsair with 100% fuel in it to make it a somewhat evenly matched opponent at the "Trained" level. Even with this, it's still going to flagrantly use the vertical against you in a "one way street," since you can't follow him. If I could get a jap p47 skin that would be ideal. There are a couple japanese p47 skins in the user files. Trying them out.

I did some experimenting. The raiden mod requires a whopping 2250kg of extra weight to keep it from going straight up and coming back down on you. OTOH, I find the P47 out of the box to be a pretty game opponent for the corsair. It can't zoom you like you're standing still but if you lose sight of it you'll definitely take some lead. I think I'm kinda done with that raiden mod.

Brilliant. Giving that a try.

That's great dogfighting Doc. Nice work there. I will give it another try with those fuel params. I'm going to say that not requiring a substantial amount of hits is actually way more realistic here than the UFO like flight characteristics it shows. Just like the zero, it had no armor at all. The Fw on the other hand was very heavily armored. German steel and all. I live in Pensacola and there's a 262 in the museum here. I touched it and was surprised how thick the metal was. The video above has some really encouraging mods in progress. Looking forward to those.

Feathering the prop rpm down gives me a lot more positive control.

He is talking about headwind. The carrier always launches aircraft into the wind.

The raiden21 from there is unbeatable. Endless power.