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Old 04-16-2011, 07:02 AM
Rickusty Rickusty is offline
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That's true Babi. I too "complained" about the Italian fighters using radio comms. in another thread yesterday.
All radio comms in the It. fighters should be eliminated IMO.
It would be cool though to have pilot gestures in 3d animations

Mokkeri, yes, there were some differences in Italy too between the "real" operational characteristics and the "factory" (it's always FIAT damn it...) ones. It's hard to tell which one was right, in which condition the tests were carried on, the general conditions of that fighter in that moment, ite engine etc etc
But, even though we should consider the Finnish tests , we're still 35 km/h slower in the game.

But the problem is another one: it really looks like the FIAT A.74 engine isn't delivering its full power in the game. As I wrote in this thread, some of the instruments show different values comprared to what it "should be".
And the WEP mode isn't available.

The Fiat G.50 was certainly not a good machine. At the Italian fighter tender of 1938, it lost against the competing Macchi C.200.
The smart Italian RA HQ obviously decided instead to produce it nonetheless
I still have to read of ONE single Italian pilot who actually liked this aircraft. It seems almost everybody hated it or didn't consider it a good fighter plane.
I have an account written by a British wartime pilot who flew both a captured Macchi C.200 and a Fiat G.50, and it's unbelievable to read that the C.200 was one of the best plane he ever flew in all his lifetime, while he commented that the G.50 just wasn't "nothing special".

Yeah it was an ugly bird and didn't perform too well, but IMO something is wrong with its FM in our sim.


Cheers
Rick

Last edited by Rickusty; 04-16-2011 at 07:14 AM.
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