Sorry if I wasn’t completely clear, Discord is the place to ask for features from the developer. It’s fine to discuss opinions with other users here, but, if you want something different in the product, their Discord is the place to go to request it.
And when you get there, they’re going to ask you the same questions I just did. Nobody can read your mind, and there is no “Well every body knows what I’m talking about” here, or anywhere..
Hi all,
I purchased the F4F not long after it was released, and I’ve been loving it though all phases of flight – except for landings. 
I found the pilot’s operating handbook for the F4F-4 online and, frankly, misread the landing instructions. What I was trying to do was keep a nose high attitude on landing and control the descent rate with throttle like I do with the F-14.
The problem I ran into was that the flaps added a ton of drag, and I ran out of both rearward stick movement and nose up trim! I ended up landing too hard, bouncing at least once, and then turning into the wind and ground looping — nearly every landing.
So, when all else fails, read the directions (again in my case).
Upon a closer reading, I noticed that the manual states the high drag from the flaps gives a steep gliding angle and that speed is lost quickly when the nose is brought up!
So I tried a nose down final approach with the flaps out and throttle reduced to start at 90 mph and gradually slow as I reached the runway threshold. I had plenty of rearward stick movement available and only needed a touch of nose up trim. Things seemed to work exactly as the manual said it would.
The result was pretty good:
YouTube video of landing at Henderson Field.
This landing was at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal (with real weather in MS Flight Sim 2020; Xbox Series X, using an Xbox controller). I floated a bit before touching down, but the landing was solid, the tail stayed down, and the plane tracked straight, right down the centerline.
This is less a testament to my flying skills, and more a testament to the fidelity and simple awesomeness of Got Flight’s Wildcat.
Finally, here is a glamor shot at about 21,000 feet above the Soloman Islands.
Thanks for reading!
Glad you’re finding your way with it.
Carrier landing in a WW2 aircraft was a whole different matter than it is in a modern or recent jet.
Ward Carroll talks about it in his commentary on The Fighting Lady, the 1944 Edward Steichen film shot aboard the Lexington. Worth a look:
Agree your experience is a tribute to how good the Got Friends Wildcat is!
Heh, I spend a lot of time with it in Hawaii out of Ford Island landing the Lexingon(s) there.
@LikedHare478430 see, some people still love Lexington. 
Wait… Aren’t they still working on the WWII carrier addons?
@LikedHare478430 yes, I’ve been waiting very patiently for some WWII carriers. I’m MUCH more interested in them than the modern ones. I have so many addons to fly from them.
And, while you’re at it, an upgrade version of CVA42 to the angled deck variant would be awesome so I can recreate my dad’s tour to the Med on that boat in 1957/'58.
Please, please please. We need some WWII carriers.
I didn’t realize I had to be noisier, I thought it was in the pipeline. How do I get the existing Lexington. I was waiting because I thought it was getting an upgrade soon.
For what it’s worth, I would LOVE a CV-6 Enterprise with the same detail, and moving, like we have for modern carriers.
Anyway, I got the F4F-4 up to 30,000 feet above Guadalcanal the other night. It took about 20 minutes and I ended up with my mixture right at 10% at that altitude. My oil temperature was pretty high though.
Still a lot of fun!
It’d be sweet if we could somehow get Wargaming’s carriers from World of Warships. They are all fantastic HD ships made from blueprints. They have Enterprise.
But what I really wanted to ask… Has anyone tried this with FS2024 yet?
Yep. Loads in and flies perfectly, as far as I can tell.
A question about the Wildcat in MSFS 2024 SU1 - has anyone succeeded in getting the pilot to display in external view? My other MSFS 2020 transfers are working fine with the default pilot avatars in 2024 since SU1 (well, mostly fine… the Flying Iron warbirds insert the co-pilot for some reason) but the Wildcat’s cockpit is still empty. Is there a setting I’m missing? Or is this just the way it is?
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed.
Nope, no pilot for me either. They probably used their Avitar system to put their own pilot in the wildcat, which doesn’t seem to work with FS2024. Avitar is MS2020 exclusive at this point.
Did they? My recollection is that it used MSFS 2020 default pilots - before Avitar was out, I remember making sure to load a modern military pilot with a white bone dome so at least it looked like a warbird. Think I switched to Avitar once it was available.
If it uses default pilots, then SU1 should have fixed the missing pilot issue. If it’s Avitar only, then we’re out of luck 'til an update.
I’ll see what they have to say on their Discord.
Not sure, I’m just assuming they did something non-standard with the pilot, because pretty much all FS2020 aircraft have a pilot model since SU1. So something must be different with the Wildcat.
According to a user on the Got Friends Discord, there’s a fix planned - and the overall issues with pilot avatars are apparently going to be addressed in SU2.
I haven’t been able to confirm the update, but their Discord is pretty confusing to navigate, so it’s possible I missed something.
Will post here if/when I’m able to track it down.
Hi I just got the F4F-4 Wildcat and I need to say it is a lot of fun to fly around with it.
I was able to bind most of what I would like to hardware inputs but I am struggling with the Canopy.
Is there a way to bind this to a button or Axis? Have tried to do this with AAO but I am not good enough with it to get the script working. Is there anyone who made this work and would be willing to share the script. Or is there another way of doing so?
I have also tried to bind the spoiler axis set. It does move the canopy but somehow does not stay in place, it starts moving back and forth and stops, as it looks to me, at a random location.
I Use LVAR:CANOPY_HANDLE. Set value between 0 and 4, for different positions.
I bought this thing yesterday and get terrible performance; stuttering all the time due to cpu load spikes. Unflyable, wasted money. I have no problems like this with any of the standard, payware or freeware planes in my hangar.
After the Wilga, which I also bought directly from GF, and which I enjoyed very much, this comes as a great disappointment. Will not buy from GF again until they fix this issue.
Performance is fine on my end.
