only landing flaps for spitfires???

[Korn]

You can still put them in any position if asign to an axis. It's wrong but hey...

[DD_crash]

I remember reading that some used wooden blocks to hold the flaps down on takeoff. Then they lowerd the flaps to drop the chock and then retract the flaps.

[robtek]

They did that with seafires.

[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.......

[AndyJWest]

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.......

The F4F-3 should have working flaps - 'up', 'combat', 'takeoff' and 'landing'. I'd check you haven't accidentally set the flaps up/down controls to something else. You should see them move in external view.

Or perhaps you left them in a down position at high speed - this will jam them so they can't be moved for the rest of the flight. Actually, the Wildcat hardly needs flaps for takeoff, unless you are operating from a carrier, and I don't think that the 'combat' flap setting actually makes much difference to low-speed manoeuvrability.

EDIT-- Just seen IceFire's post below. I'd forgotten about the automatic retraction.... That probably explains it.

[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.

[SEE]

Thanks for the replies, just tried the flaps directly from the keyboard and not the flightstick buttons I assigned to flaps and they work! I have different flightstick profiles for various ac and the one for the F4F-3 was the problem.......many thanks!

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by IceFire

The AI ignores flap settings and does whatever it wants

Yes, very annoying if you forget and switch over to AI with flaps deployed. The AI will happily leave them deployed and accelerate away. If you swap back to pilot control at high speed the flaps are damaged before you get a chance to retract them

[David198502]

thx guys for all your answers!!!
this forum is a real knowledge-base and i really appreciate that you guys answer all my questions, even if they sound dumb.thx to all of you.