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.

[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.