BF 109 flaps repeatedly lower during flight - is my flying horrible?

[ufalcon]

It somehow took me a good 9 mission into a German campaign to notice that the flaps on my BF109 frequently lower on their own (???) during flight.

After taking off, I lift gear and immediately raise my flaps. As suggested in another thread, I'm not attempting to use combat flaps during flight - in fact I'm pretty n00b and don't touch them at all until landing. Despite all this, every few minutes I start hearing the warning beeps and start getting chop on my force feedback due to the flaps coming down.

It seems like it might be during more strenuous rolls and dives that it occurs, maybe my flying is just terrible? Of course this really sucks because constantly raising the flaps back up on a BF109 will cause them to jam after a while.


btw, I think this is my first post here, but the IL2 community has been an amazing resource! Over the last few months I've found so many excellent guides and tips. You guys rock!!