Ok, and now for something completely different....

[NineLine]

Breaking your wings so easily:

Then, there's that easy way of breaking your wings, when you pull a little harder... This is particularly irritating for me :-/ There being no G meter I can't even say they're braking way too soon... But, they certainly break way before the pilot blacks-out... Might be due to the fact that there is no perception of controls loosing effectiveness with speed / Gs ( ? ).

 

 

As stated above, this is all reported, the wings being fragile, the fact that you get no visual warning that you are pulling too many G's (tunnel vision or blacking out), as well the weird damage model where you break a wing tip and get a flame under your belly :)

[Anatoli-Kagari9]

Yes SiTh, it's a beta! A very good and promising one BTW - I'd love to have had final release products in many other sims as good as the beta modules are in DCS :)

Edited December 8, 2014 by jcomm

[Chappie]

Takeoff: Align with runway centerline, roll forward to straighten the tail wheel, lock the tail wheel, apply full right rudder, brig the stick all the way back, apply full power, and somewhere around 150 kms/he neutralize the stick and climb. For a crosswind takeoff, stick same as above but put it into the wind left or right commensurate with crosswind direction. As 109 speed increases during takeoff, adjust pressure.

 

excessive right aileron trim: 109 engine produces torque and at maximum power quite a bit. Level flight requires stick adjustment especially at maximum power. This is a prop and engine so gyroscopic and torque affects are present.

 

Breaking wings: Apply four to six seconds of flap application and your wings stall rather than break. This is no guarantee but point is the 109 is not a jet so don't go yankin on the stick.

 

Instability at lower speeds: Keep speed up especially in the landing. A flat orientation parallel to the runway during landing with the mains touching first is important. Once the mains touch, bring the stick back to the hard stop to avoid fish-tailing and instability.

 

I love the 109 and it has become my favorite prop to fly. It is not perfect but very good simulation. I look forward to what ED does with my favorite WWII jet the Me-262.

[Anatoli-Kagari9]

 

excessive right aileron trim: 109 engine produces torque and at maximum power quite a bit. Level flight requires stick adjustment especially at maximum power. This is a prop and engine so gyroscopic and torque affects are present.

 

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Chappie,

 

I guess aircraft are trimmed / rigged to fly as stable and effortless as possible at cruise settings.

 

The 109, just like the Dora, has ground adjustable trim tabs, bent to set the right amount of compensation for the effects you mentioned, mostly asymmetric slipstream on tail and aft fuselage sections...

 

The way it is right now suggests way too much tab trim is being used ( right, hence negative... ). I believe fine tuning will help bringing it to an even better feel :)

[Chappie]

I agree. Dora lacks longitudinal instability so I suppose it can be corrected in the 109.