One of those things :)

[Ltbear]

I got back into IL2 a week ago after some time off. Last evening i was invitet to a private session where it was the attack on pearl..

I cleaned the screen, vacumed the keyboard, and cleaning the mouse and desk. Realy wantet the "fresh" feel even the coffe was brand new and hot.

I was in the Kate, easy plane to fly, simple controlls everything was perfect. This game was set 100% "first time for me ever without speedbar"

I was last in line, throttle flaps thoght i had it all sortet out. Was happy rolling, but was concerned when the plane didnt have lift at the end of the deck, but manged to pull up and flaps up throttle 75 shallow climp by trimm...but...couldnt get speed up....well more power rads open, all it did was raise the temp and giving me minimal speed....i did everything checked gear reset trimm...no speed and way to many overheat messages....at the end the engine began to fall apart...had to drop the torpedo and try to make it back to the carrier...limping trimming...there it was...turning final engine popping and cracking...ha haaaaa i will make it...comming down on the last few meters, full flaps....and then a rocket hit the darn plane and my fine slow aproatch at 90kph ended up in a suicede attack on my own carrier....

Well i was puzzled but im a track mania (have to se before you can learn)

My mistake was simple but werry devestating...i had set my flaps control to the wrong axis...retract = engage. Engage = retract...blew my engine trying to fly full combat load with landing flaps.....almost killed my carrier because of a gigantic speed gain on landing lmao......

darn, i feel stupid and noobish....

Ltbear

[TheGrunch]

Ha, I often have problems like that because my crappy Saitek Aviator's two throttle axes go crazy. The shoddy plastic mechanism that clips the two throttles together is stuck clipped in, so if I've just installed a fresh copy of the game and I accidentally bind the one of the two axes that occasionally and unexpectedly decides to recalibrate itself to only allow me to move along 50% of the axis, I'm suddenly flying an underpowered brick of an aircraft.

[Splitter]

I had a similar problem recently. Turns out the problem was prop pitch being 0% . No hardware problem, just me being an idiot! Crash landing resulted.

They say ("they" are always so smart) that the most common cause of crashes is pilot error. That's why pilots fly with checklists and such, takes the idiot factor away (mostly).

Splitter

[Splitter]

OH! And a gears up landing with a perfectly good plane on a perfectly good runway. Done that one too .

Splitter

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Splitter

OH! And a gears up landing with a perfectly good plane on a perfectly good runway. Done that one too .

Splitter

You're in good company, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry did that several times too.

Then again, maybe flying was not one of his strongest skills...

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Splitter

OH! And a gears up landing with a perfectly good plane on a perfectly good runway. Done that one too .

Splitter

Well, I've done that IRL... Att bit more embarrassing then

[Splitter]

ROFL, ok you win. I just had to hit re-fly

Splitter