only landing flaps for spitfires???

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by SEE

I'm on the USN pacific mission and there are no flaps whatsoever on the F4F-3 and the ac guide doesn't mention what flap settings are available for the ac in it. I wonder if I'm missing something here or, may be the f4f-3 simply doesn't have them.......all the other ac I have tried so far have 'landing' and 'raised' settings if nothing else.......

F4F-3 has flaps. They have an automatic retraction system above a certain speed. It's covered in the Plane Guide.pdf that resides in the IL-2 1946 directory.

The AI ignores flap settings and does whatever it wants and yes the Spitfire and Seafires have a landing flap only mode. No combat flaps.