Your right, but since the Yak-9T is used for attacking tanks, it did actually carry more ammunition than the Yak-3, which the Yak-3 was also smaller and shorter than the Yak-9T, and the other variants.

Is there a reason why the I-16's prop dies if you have the audacity to so much as move the plane

Many of the earlier planes in the war used caurberators. When these planes are in a negative G environment then they would lose all fuel pressure. (I think)

So anytime you dive your engine may stall.

I got mine from Play.com but they arent listing them any more.
heres one on amazon but its £40.

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[QUOTE=El Hadji;101878]@The Goat: Here is the result of putting your Flying Lesson up on my webpage. I have altered some minor details. If you find anything wrong, please let me know. I also played with your Avatar a bit, adding a Wilcox flying helmet. Hope you don't mind... ;)

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Looks awesome! This Goat loves it. :)

Which also means if you happen to find yourself slow with an I-16 on your arse, do a hard bunt, then roll over and do a half loop in the other direction.

I-16 player will HAVE to roll first and do a loop. You make things very difficult for I-16 pilot and will buy you some time to build speed and get separation.

If this were a Microsoft combat sim, none of these finer details would have made it in, and most of the flight models would be BS. IL2 series only has a few questionable flight models - so I'm happy a developer is so dedicated to historical accuracy and detail.

Seems like most everything about the pc flight models is left intact on consoles - minus the weird adjustments for control surface sensitivity.

I've always wondered how realistic the stability was from plane to plane in the IL2 series.

Some of the german planes with nose mounted guns seem to shake too much. Planes like the Yak-3 have very little recoil for such a small plane - always suspected that was off.

It's not. The Yak-3 was one of the best Soviet gun platforms, they had, and even created. They had little recoil, and the pilots that flew them, said that the Yak-3 was a gem to fly because of it.

Yak 3 gives me no hugely bad recoil in the game. Once again though, it's not as stable as my La 7