Hmm…You’re clearly not understanding the fundamentals of tailwheel flying. With tailwheel aircraft, you want to get the tail in the air as soon as you have control authority with the rudder and elevator. During the takeoff roll, relax backpressure on the stick (or even push forward slightly), get the tail up, accelerate on the mains, and then pull the nose up at takeoff speed. If you try to lift off the runway in a tail low attitude, as your video shows, you will be right at the stall critical angle of attack (as further evidenced by your stall warning being illuminated) and you’ll either stall the wings, lose directional control or both. In real life, even big aircraft have the same limitations if you dont get the tail up to reduce the angle of attack. Recently a DC-3 experienced the same thing. Look up the crash of Bluebonnet Belle.
This isnt a plane you can fly without a solid understanding of the dynamics involved. Do yourself a favor and do some research on the fundamentals of flying tailwheel aircraft. There’s tons of simple to understand material out there.
What your video is actually showing is a very nice and accurate flight model. A real-world Corsair would do the same thing in this scenario. This kind of accident is likely what many young and inexperienced pilots went through during wartime flight training. It’s a big, powerful plane with lots of torque and unforgiving characteristics.
I own the Spitfire and the Stearman and do not have these problems. The Tomahawk is special in its own way, but with no taildragger do I have these problems as with the Corsair. Seems to me the developer takes it over the top with “realism”. It’s like a bad joke - should you be able to lift off without crashing, after 2 minutes your engine blows and the windscreen is covered with oil. And the developer has announced it shall be even getting worse (harder) with the next update.
That could be for many reasons. Perhaps the flight model isnt as accurate in these models (maybe intentionally, to appeal to a broader range of customers), maybe they are accurate and these aircraft are more forgiving. Regardless, it’s not a good practice to take off in a three-point attitude in most tailwheel aircraft. You’re right at the critical angle of attack, meaning any increase in load factor (any gust of wind, any abrupt control movement, any little thing) can lead to a stall and loss of control.
Not everyone has the skills or desire to learn the real-life physics, there’s nothing wrong with that. To each their own. It sounds like perhaps the Corsair, as modeled by Milviz, might not be a good fit for you. The developer has clearly stated their goal (and reputation) is for a high level of fidelity in all aspects of the simulation.
Then you might remember that in its earlier versions it was a good deal twitchier. I’m not going to speculate as to why FlyingIron nerfed the Spit for MSFS2020 but it’s certainly a good deal more docile now than it was and a fair bit more docile when compared to the versions served up in IL-2 BoX or DCS
Until this most recent version of the MSFS2020 Spit by flyingiron I would have said that the Milviz Corsair was the easiest to handle in take off, landing and taxi of all the MSFS2020 warbirds largely because of the lockable tail wheel but also because you can feel/hear the flutter when close to stall. (and I might be imagining it but it always felt to me as if I could feel the weight and interia that a big bruiser of a plane like the Corsair would have had when compared to something like a Spit)
This is not an arcade “game”, this is a simulator. In real life if you refuse to handle the plane the way the plane is supposed to be handled (or how the plane “wants” to be handled. different aircraft feel different even if they are the same type of aircraft), you will crash. In real life, if you refuse to manage the engine properly, it will fail. Yes it might seem “hard”, but being a pilot is hard. Thats why aviation is heavily regulated and it aint easy to become a pilot.
The point of a simulator is to generally simulate as close to reality as possible. it seems like you are criticizing the sim for doing what it is supposed to do? Its like going to a liquer store and then complaining when they dont sell salad.
the only problem here is some people buy the wrong planes for them, most are quite
easy, but milviz is wellknown for its realism and these planes were difficult to fly.
Im not trying to belittle you. There is just no other alternative. There is simulators (although i admit the level of realism varies, thats another debate entirely) and then there is arcade-type flying. Its irrational to complain about a sim being a sim. You are not unworthy, your opinion is just not valid by being irrational.
Look, regardless of the amount of help this guy receives he is so convinced of being right that it’s useless to argue with him anymore. He isn’t here to learn anything, he is here to complain.
Although that other dude going on about how everything that isn’t a 100% simulation of reality is ‘arcade’ isn’t exactly helpful either
Anyway, haven’t bought this plane but I might do after the service pack is released. It’s been delayed a few times now though, hopefully not much longer to wait
I had some of the same issues when I first started flying this Corsair. It’s taken about of month of practice take-offs and landings and reading the manual to get my head around it. And even then last night I hit a tree spinning off the runway and scraped my wing on a landing. Its challenging. It’s fun. I wouldn’t want it any other way. I really don’t think there is much wrong with the plane. Historical records seem to indicate how much of a beast that thing was near the ground at low speed. But now get it above 1K feet and she wants to climb and fly beautifully.
I’ve probably put 5K+ miles in it so far.
I own the FI Spit and the DC Stearmen too. Comparing them to this isn’t really fair IMHO.
I dont know where you drew that conclusion from my posts but you misunderstood. I never said that, my only point the whole time is that its irrational to complain about a simulated function of an aircraft in a simulator. Especially in a 3rd party aircraft that advertises the product as being very detailed.
Might be a language barrier with my part as well that i couldnt find the correct words to describe my point in the most neutral way possible. I didnt try to be a “gatekeeper” and i apologize if it came across as such.
