Reflected's Corsair Corner - Tutorials

[Reflected]

Hey all, I'm doing a tutorial series about the F4U Corsair. I hope they will help you master this legendary beast:
 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 12:37 PM by Reflected

[Ghostrider 147]

I've watched your tutorials and so far they've been of great help - thanks a lot for making these!

[Mr_sukebe]

+1 just watched one and thought that it was excellent.

My thanks

[Merlins51]

Very much appreciated.  Thanks Reflected!

[javelina1]

excellent videos!  I've learned quite a bit.  looking forward towards your Corsair campaign.  

[Mistermann]

Nice work, Reflected.  Thanks!

[Andrew8604]

The Carrier Ops one is excellent.  Really got me dialed in pretty quickly. 

I went with 40 flaps and flew a dozen circuits around the carrier, slowly lowering my altitude and the speed, getting everything trimmed up...including a little bit of cowl flaps open and full open oil cooler.  I used 2400 RPM and whatever MP gets me about 93 kts.  In the turn it will slow to 90.  I used 10 deg nose-up trim, 6-deg right rudder and maybe 1/2 deg right aileron.  And then just be easy on the controls.  Minor corrections.  I made multiple passes over the end of the deck where I could have cut the throttle but just kept going around and around the pattern to get used to it.  Many of my passes were wide right on the rollout, close-in to the deck.  On those I could imagine getting the wave-off from the LSO.  Tomorrow I'll go to 50 flaps and with a fully clear deck give it a try.  In VR it looks like if you wave-off, you'll hit the island with your right wingtip.  I always offset just a bit to over the port (left) edge of the flight deck, just enough of a climb to get maybe 50-75 feet above planes parked forward.  I don't even change the throttle setting for the wave off, I just ease the nose up just a smidgen to get the altitude and then fly straight ahead for 15 seconds or so before turning back into the pattern to try again.  I only use 25-30 deg of bank.  I figure, once you cut throttle for the landing, you're committed, there's no waving off after that.

Now this sequence in the movie "Bridges at Toko-Ri" makes a lot more sense to me.  When do we get the F9F-2 Panther in DCS?   Compare this.  It's like the same pattern we'll use with the F4U.  Same straight-deck Essex-class carriers (this was filmed on Oriskany CV-34 and Kearsarge CV-33, with updated islands and twin 5"-gun turrets removed).

 

[Pepper211]

Great series Reflected, very useful and also looking forward to your campaign

[Viking 1-1]

Nah, I´ll pass on this one...

Oh, Reflected is doing a campaign for it.

Bought!