Various impressions from early flights

[TheSkipjack95]

Noticed a few things so far : 

Manipulators for dials do not react to scroll wheel, only click and drag (altimeter setting, trim etc).
Needles on gauges shake a lot, even the altimeter.

Max zoom out feels like a minimum to feel comfortable.

Edited June 19 by TheSkipjack95

[Tucker Fleming]

I've got no internal engine sounds in cockpit.  External's ok.

[Lt_Jaeger]

Lacks big time in the sound department, agreed. 

[Qcumber]

It is similar to the P-47 in cockpit noise. Same engine and similar sized aircraft. I have seen both IRL close up with engine starts and as you would expect they are both noisy from the outside. I suspect that the cockpits are quite well insulated from some of the noise. The F4U in particular as the cockpit is quite far behind the engine and has a big fuel tank in-between. Try opening the canopy and stick your head outside. See how it sounds then. 

Edit: nothing beats the sound of a RR Merlin. 

Edited June 19 by Qcumber

[Tucker Fleming]

So, it does have sound, just very light and the instructor's voice is ear shattering when I get the vol up enough to hear the engine.
But it is there to hear.

[AJaromir]

IMO it flies "like on rails". No shaking, no drifting. Even when closing to stall spin there is no warning.

[Mnemonic]

1 hour ago, AJaromir said:

IMO it flies "like on rails". No shaking, no drifting. Even when closing to stall spin there is no warning.

There is a shake feedback on the force-feedback joystick which is good, but no visual Animation unfortunately.

[Kondor77]

I'm not a pilot. I play video games. 

The FM feels a bit "floaty" she flies more like a spitfire than even a 47 or 51. Was also expecting similar sounds to ED's 47 - have to say they're kind of a let down. 

[Raisuli]

I have never been an ensign, but I successfully took off, flew around a while, then landed without scratching the paint or being eliminated.

FM is obviously too tame

Anything else I noticed I chalk up to EA.  Love my Corsair!

[BSS_Sniper]

8 hours ago, AJaromir said:

IMO it flies "like on rails". No shaking, no drifting. Even when closing to stall spin there is no warning.

It absolutely does not, but aircraft in general should feel that way when you fly them. I've never understood where this has come from but it only comes from people that do not actually fly irl.

[AJaromir]

11 hours ago, BSS_Sniper said:

It absolutely does not, but aircraft in general should feel that way when you fly them. I've never understood where this has come from but it only comes from people that do not actually fly irl.

Thing is: The corsair weight is over 4000 kg. (fully loaded around 8300 kg) But it feels like RC model. There is no interia and no momentum to fight with like at all other aircrafts in DCS:W. Also many aircrafts in DCS  are at the limit of static and dynamic longitudinal stability. For example, a P-51D with a full auxiliary tank has its center of gravity shifted so far back that it causes great longitudinal instability. The only planes that don't give advance notice that a stall is coming are elliptical wing planes such as the Spitfire. This is due to the fact that the stall on an elliptical wing occurs all at once along its entire length, whereas on a conventional wing the stall occurs gradually.

Edited June 20 by AJaromir

[AJaromir]

On 6/20/2025 at 6:07 AM, BSS_Sniper said:

It absolutely does not

This is my very first flight with Corsair in DCS:W. I did not read the entire flight manual. Only how to start engine. In the video you can see the aircraft is really very stable and flying like on rails. No curves set, no dead zones set.

 

Edited Friday at 02:18 PM by AJaromir