Bump for nerfman.

Lol i was just thinking man this guy can type and when i saw pedro the goat had replied id assume it was your standard search the threads reply ....which i did just not very well.....Your a Champiiiion

interesting, that gets rid of that doubt thanks very much.

By the way, you know much about these planes, is there a book you can recommend me to get more familiar with ww2 planes? I have one already but it has mainly superficial information about ww1 & ww2 aircraft and pretty pictures lol. thanks in advance.

I, actually, am not the one you want to ask about true WWII aviation. Nearly all the knowledge I have has been picked up from these forums. I have always been an aviation fan, but my knowledge is truly not that deep.

Ask guys like Soviet Ace and others for some good reading. LA Smack is also one to ask, he's a personal friend of mine and knows TONS about good WWII aviation reading. This Goat... Not so much.

I think you mean rate of turn, because else you just told everyone a B17 would be awesome in dogfighting due to it's huge turn radius :rolleyes:. Turn radius would be the distance travelled in a turn: a small one is most useful. Rate of turn is an indication as to how fast your heading changes: a big one is most useful.
Thought I'd point it out to avoid confusion ;).
Nice guide btw. Playing realistic now due to laziness, but I think I might start sim soon, although my teammates might start to hate me for being unable to identify a friendly :rolleyes:.

Plane pitching ?!?!
 

Hi everyone!
Question: Il 2 Sturmovik:Birds of Prey -Don't found that the plane have too much pitching movement during navigation and the manovers? I have see many video inside the cockpit of Spitfire and other planes of IIWW and I have see the the manover and the navigation (in the good wether) are more stable respect the game?

Are you saying the game or the RL is more stable? Both would make sense in a way.
The fighters were designed to be quite unstable, so it would be hard to fly them in a very straight line => RL could be less stable.
However, in an airplane you have way more feel for what the plane is doing, and the pilots had a longer training than us gamers => The game could be less stable.
It's hard to compare games and RL in any situation, but especially with flying the lack of feeling has a big impact.

I was worried about this at first too but decided to jump into a sim game anyway. It turns out that when you play a team game that everyone gets markings on their planes to tell teams apart. Both the right wing and the fuselage, just before the tail, have a color stripe on them. Blue for team B and red for team A. You may have to get a little closer than you're used to to see the markings but if you look for them they are easy enough to see.

I am using an SD TV and am able to see them, I'm sure an HD TV would make it a bit easier.

Does this game have friendly fire online?

I thought it was friendly always blue enemy always red?

Or if you have mics you can simply ask your teammates to fire their guns....Easier then getting an angle on a teammate and possible being food for a single enemy.