Hello, lately the propeller has been spinning without starting the engine, does anyone know what’s going on?
Strong winds?
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Ive also recommend adding positive trim when pulling a loop and reducing trim when levelling out. Helps alot
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What’s rather neat about the Bf 109 you saw at that airshow (N90602) is that it is actually a very clever conversion of a Spanish-built Hispano Buchon, fitted with an Allison V-1710 engine within original Bf 109G-10 cowlings. Outwardly, it looks like a stock Bf 109G-10. The Allison, being quite a bit smaller than the DB 605, actually fits, mounted upright, within the Bf 109 cowls, and the prop shaft location and thrust line remains the same as if it were fitted with a DB 605. The restoration company, Pacific Fighters, and the owner, Erickson Aircraft Collection, designed and manufactured a special engine mount for this, as well as special exhaust so that the exhaust from the Allison exits down to the same location as the stock DB 605 exhaust. As a modern-day airshow flyer, the great thing about it is that the Allison engine has a much, much higher TBO (time before overhaul), and it is far easier to find parts for it than the DB engines, so they’re not worried so much about putting hours on it.
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That’s interesting! And I feel somewhat justified in thinking it sounded pretty “American.” But I thought, heck, what do I know? It’s the first one I’ve seen. I just knew it sounded somewhat smoother than the 109 in game. Well now, that explains it. It wasn’t a Merlin like the P-51, but it did sound nice.
Anyone have landing tips for this plane? I have never had any issues landing any plane ever in the sim until this one. I can land it at long paved airports but I mostly fly it on grass strips and crash it 9/10 times. I either lose too much airspeed and drop like a rock or overshoot the runway and roll off the end. From my research it should be around 200 coming in full flaps and gear down at 180 and 3 pointer at 145. Paved or dirt I can land it but for some reason on grass strips I usually crash. I watched an interview with a P-47 pilot from WWII and he said they used to land using a turn to bleed airspeed and go sideways to see the runway then kick rudder to straighten out at the end, maybe I will give that a try.
I recommend the glider tutorial. In one lesson (I forgott in which one) they describe the side slip.
It’s mostly used by gliders to bleed off speed and heigth, but is also handy for taildraggers with low- and middlewings to keep the runway in view, like you heard in the interview. You can combine the side slip to optimize your speed without the throttle at idle to avoid ramping up the engine and to keep the runway in sight.
I’ll try later how good this works with the BF109, because I have to optimize the landings myself XD
I mostly use this technique for 3 pointers in lighter planes without flaps and/or spoilers (extra 300, gliders), but for heavier taildraggers and warbirds I prefer the wheel landing, but it’s not recommended for the BF109 as we know.
Is this a photoshop with the other WWII planes there? Or am I missing something?
I agree. I am sad. A2A had such a killer B-17, so realistic and animated and great to fly with all the buttons, bells and whistles.
What a detailed look at things. And ■■■■■■… you are correct. There are a lot of incorrect things here.
Multiplayer with friends using aircraft with different liveries I think. Some aftereffects added, but they look like normal screenshots.
Flying Iron is well above the quality and support of Airplane Heaven! Airplane heavens lack of support and attitude towards the sim has put me off. They have said on this forum they consider their add ons toys. The sound set of the p51 is also very lacking compared to other warbird developers. I have all of Flying Irons releases and they are all very well done. The detail is unparalleled except for maybe Milvizs Corsair. Still the BF-109 is one of the most polished warbirds in the sim. Can’t go wrong with Flying Iron.
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Actually you can. 2 of my friends cant fly the spit anymore due to the changes in braking neither have rudder or pedal controls so according to them the spit is essentially useless.
while i do like flying irons i do feel their products do not take into consideration the userbase at times, there has been more than a little moan over the braking changes. and to be clear this doesn’t bother me to much as i have pedals.
also if you reply to this i may not reply back as i am taking a break from flightsim , to many issues and stutters currently playing other games and feel.ing refresh
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The Spitfire isn’t unplayable without rudder pedals. I’ve never had rudder pedals and it works absolutely fine.
As does the Me-109 while we’re at it.
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There’s an option in the tablet to disable the new ground handling stuff. I disable it because my ■■■■■■ rudder pedals don’t play nice with moving the rudders whilst pressing down a toe brake. So they do take the user base into consideration by making it optional.
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not what i said please read before commenting
there was a simplified mode but that didn’t seem to make any difference still needed toe brakes anyway for me its mute as i have pedals but there are people who are having issues.
has there been an update recently? i cant see any option to disable ground handling.
ok let me ask a simple question how do you turn on the ground without rudder or brakes
I feel they consider their user base heavily. It’s a really good simulation of the original plane. That’s what they are known for. It’s not Ace combat it’s Flight Simulator. That’s their user base.
There are lots of money grab, basic video-game add-ons in the market that are effortless to fly. Flying iron attempts to give us the most realistic experience they can. And they are really good at it.
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“2 of my friends cant fly the spit anymore due to the changes in braking neither have rudder or pedal controls so according to them the spit is essentially useless.”
This is exactly what you said as quoted, it is possible to taxi, fly and land the Spitfire without the need for pedal controls or the need to disable realistic taxing.
It is again possible to do this in the Me-109 to keep this somewhat on topic.
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“ok let me ask a simple question how do you turn on the ground without rudder or brakes”
Go to the table and select Simplified Groundhandling. This will then link the rudder and the tailwheel, I must stress through, for either product Me-109 or Spitfire you don’t need to have rudder pedals to make it work but it does make it a lot easier if you enable Simplified Groundhandling.
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