Originally Posted by FOZ_1983 (Post 95369)

House - your a star!! im liking it.
pedro - i feel your pain, my hurricane is in the hanger having some final ground checks etc before taking to the air.... im anxious for it!!!!

Originally Posted by PedroTheGoat (Post 95372)

I'm non stop practicing on the demo when I'm not in school/studying or working.

I'm hoping some of my .50 rounds are going to find that sweet spot in your rear fuselage when we practice. ;)

Originally Posted by David603 (Post 94984)

Been flying the Yak-3 for a couple of fights vs the Bf109G10 and Spitfire IX. It is very good at turning fights, big advantage over the G10 in turn and roll, especially at high speed. Not so much over the Spitfire IX, if anything the Spitfire has an edge at low speed but the two planes are very close. Yak-3 and Spitfire very close in top speed, G10 is a bit quicker. Good climber, but both the IX and the G10 are very good climbers, so they have an edge here. Dive rates are very similar across the board but the Yak-3 has the best high speed control responses.

Only thing I'm not really happy about is the firepower. Duelling with a pair of G10s, and I shot down one, then went after the other. Hit him with a snapshot that get him smoking, but the single cannon runs out of ammo during the snapshot. So I thought, no problem, he's already in damaged, I'll just knock him down with the MGs. Haul round on his tail, open fire and the MGs run out of ammo in about 1 second. Cursed, turned and dived away, but the G10 didn't come after me so I started following it and it went down on its own a couple of minutes later.

So I was curious, because I hadn't been using much ammo even though the Yak-3's guns don't seem to do as much damage as a Bf109 with a similar armament of 1 20mm cannon and 2 13mm MGs. Timed the firing time and the Yak-3 has only 9 seconds for the 20mm Cannon and 10 for the 2 12.7mm MGs. A Bf109G with that armament has 13 seconds for the cannon and 20 for the MGs, and really it should be more, they only have 150 rounds of 20mm ammo when they could have 200 but the game has no option to increase the ammo loadout.

Originally Posted by PedroTheGoat (Post 95400)

I wonder how much ammo my P47 can take on?

Originally Posted by PedroTheGoat (Post 95400)

I wonder how much ammo my P47 can take on?

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace (Post 95407)

Matters on the model. My favorite was the P-47D with the Razor-back canopy. I'm not a fan of the P-47 with the teardrop canopy. But anyway, with the plane being 10,000lbs empty, and a Pratt & Whitney R-2800-63 Supercharged engine. I'd say it could carry enough ammunition for its sorties. I mean it did have 6-8 .50 caliber MG's, which did eat up a lot of ammunition, but I can't give an exact number.

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace (Post 95397)

Yeah that's my problem with the Yak-3 on 1946, is I don't think they got the rate of climb good enough. In reality, the Yak-3 was superb in Maneuvering, Climbing, and guns. And the reason, there is only 150 rounds for the cannon, is because they wanted to keep the plane light, and I know that later Yak-3s like the Yak-3P and I think the Yak-3U something, had 210 cannon rounds, but both of those were designed produced after the war, and used for ground attack. The WW2 Yak-3, has no number or letter. It's just that Yak-3 :D

Originally Posted by David603 (Post 95594)

Sorry, I should have said it was the Bf109G I was talking about when I said it only had 150 rounds for the 20mm cannon and should have 200. The Yak-3 has 120 rpg for the 20mm and 170rpg for the two 12.7mm MGs. So that is firepower on the weak side of average for a late war fighter with below average amounts of ammo. Doesn't help that the Russian ShVAK cannon used by the Yak-3 is rather inferior to the Hispano or the MG151 20mm cannons.

Definitely agree with needing to keep the Yak-3 light, it only has a 1,290hp engine when the Spitfire IX has 1,720hp and the Bf109G10 has 1,800hp.

I think the Yak-3's climb rate is modelled quite well, the real life initial climb rate is 4,265ft/min, which puts it at the top end of climb rates, but both the Spitfire IX and Bf109G10 have initial climb rates in the order of a bit over 4,500ft/min so their having an edge over the Yak-3 here seems fair.

Still, having only one point of real weakness (firepower) as a dogfighter isn't bad, most of the Yak-3's rivals have several at least.

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983 (Post 95704)

luckt S.O.B, you get the honour of flying with gold wing. ;) best of the lot.

Originally Posted by PedroTheGoat (Post 95723)

Hehe. I love the competitive rhetoric we have between wings. Practice is going to be a blast.

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace (Post 95680)

Your info seems right about the Yak-3, but I hope you didn't just use Wikipedia as your source. Their specs and information, isn't about the Tiblisi built Yak-3s that were the superior. Their information is on the Saratov Yak-3s which had several serious problems. But anyway, the Yak-3 does have several advantages against its Luftwaffe foe, which is roll rate and turning. The Yak-3 could outturn and roll quicker than any 109 or 190.

Originally Posted by Robotic Pope (Post 95948)

lol How does the Yak-3 come up in so many threads?

Back on topic: We all know Red wing is best :P

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983 (Post 95951)

i have NO idea at all!! haha. It will be coming up in many threads when the civilians are complaining about yak wrecks being all over their land etc ;) Still....farmers could make a nice chicken shed or something out of the wreckage :P

We need to fly, red v gold. or before that find out who likes dogfighting and who likes bombing lol.

bit like star wars!! red wing was the xwings attacking death star (fighter) gold wing was the y-wing (more of a bomber).

i always preffered the y-wing haha

Originally Posted by Robotic Pope (Post 95948)

lol How does the Yak-3 come up in so many threads?

Back on topic: We all know Red wing is best :P

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace (Post 96513)

Because I'm always putting it there :D

On Topic: I hope I can take some of your squadrons on, when I get my 360 version.

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983 (Post 96517)

would be an honour :)

Originally Posted by smacktooth (Post 96917)

Im interested in joining your squad, my name is Gram im from the LA california, i used to fly aceshigh but had to stop for the same reasons as you. I like to fly all airplanes bombers or fighters my game tag is, smacktooth
thanks

Originally Posted by LaRock O no Lie (Post 97067)

I tried joining another squad, but they never replied or added me... House added me... so I will be more then happy to fly with you all, but I will not be doing sim mode untill at least 9/10 when I get my flightstick.. :-)

Pedro... Id love to get lessons... I would have to say Im a nub at combat flight sims with prop planes... and as such in the demo and with the controller I was always going into a spin... never crashed due to it... but id definately get shot down online in sim mode easily with the controller. I used to intentionally go into flat spins on falcon 4.0 because of "Top Gun".... ( I still shed a tear when Goose dies ) :-) I got to the point where I would recover a flat spin about 60% of the time..... ( as long as I initiated it at a decent altitude. )

Originally Posted by House MD 221B (Post 97090)

Welcome LaRock, you are officially Eagle 7 :) i hope you like it here, we'll all fly with you and get you ready, dont worry about jumping into sim straight away, we're all fooling round on arcade and realistic so far, just getting used to it ourselves. :)

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace (Post 97330)

Hey are you guys interested in maybe flying some old 30s planes from the Spanish Civil War?

Originally Posted by SleepTrgt (Post 97366)

Nice time playing with pedro!

Originally Posted by House MD 221B (Post 98847)

it's nothing personal, its about giving everyone the chance to be where they want to be, rather than me just filling slots, now i know you want to be in gold, il change your uniform and transfer you :)