Some more fun with 4.10, let's play a game.

[Azimech]

Dunno if you guys like to play games like these, but I have great fun doing these things. Multiple throttle and proppitch axis are wonderful!

Take off, fly around and land on the same field with only your engines, flaps and possible prop pitch. No trimming or touching stick whatsoever.

I've made a few tracks with a B25 and Bf110, the flight with the B25 resulting in one of my most clean and beautiful landings ever, the landing with the Bf110 wasn't so clean but has a very funny surprise at the ending!

I thought concrete would be easier so I chose the QMB Crimea Red Scramble mission.

If someone can show me the way to post those tracks here, please do. Or, maybe I'll figure it out myself.

Who produces the most stable and clean take off and landing in the least amount of time?

[Azimech]

Clearly it's all dependent on the type and loadout. Some planes are easy, especially the ones with contra rotating props left & right.

Taking off, flying and landing with empty loadout and 10% fuel is way easy. But with an SC2000 a He-111 can't even take off. Edit: Can be done, using chocks. But you'll be flying huge distances with the left engine at 110% the whole time. Very hard.

A Betty is a challenge due to the very heavy torque.

Using a Mig 9 is even more troublesome because of the engines placed in the fuselage. Even more so because of the Mig 9 throttle bug. And you have to plan every move because of the very slow response in turning. Haven't made a succesful landing in that one yet.

You can even do this with a Do-335, using the torque differential between front and rear engine

A TB-3 with 10% fuel and no ammo is funny to watch talking off: Put chocks in, run those engines to 110% & max RPM and release chocks. Never seen a TB-3 gain speed so fast and take off almost vertically
But, if you don't throtttle back it will stall. Using only the engines you can maintain a steady climb with 70 km/h, if you're good enough (I'm not).

[jimbop]

This sounds fun - have to try later although I can guess what the outcome will be in my case. Won't be pretty I'm sure!

[Azimech]

Some types are a real pain, for example the ME-262. Not only do you have to be worried about slow throttle input, the spool-up time compared to prop-driven aircraft is of course slower. You have to come in low with a very high landing speed. I've tried a few times, but with a type you don't know well (beyond stick control) you tend to be reactive instead of predictive.

One type is notable because of the low weight: Bf109Z. Spinning up or down the engine creates much torque that helps or counteracts your desired thrust vector. That makes for a real dynamic flying experience

[Azimech]

And ehm... anyone who can land the SM.79 this way is a genius. Due to the automatic flaps.

[Romanator21]

Challenge accepted I won't be able to try until quite a bit later though.