Is there anything the G50 can do good? - Page 2

JG53Frankyboy · #11 08-21-2011, 08:41 PM

at least it is a nice trainer

for CoD with its CEM an trimm for all axis.....
just a pitty its magnetos and fuelcocks dont work.

but in general, IMHO to ad these italian planes was a waste of time, having in mind how late they appeared 1940 and how low there influence was.........
the whole work should have been put into Wellington cockpits instead!

Jaws2002 · #12 08-21-2011, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by JG53Frankyboy

at least it is a nice trainer

for CoD with its CEM an trimm for all axis.....
just a pitty its magnetos and fuelcocks dont work.

but in general, IMHO to ad these italian planes was a waste of time, having in mind how late they appeared 1940 and how low there influence was.........
the whole work should have been put into Wellington cockpits instead!

+1

Wellington should have been there as flyable from the start. Welly and Dornier first, then exotic planes.

ATAG_Doc · #13 08-21-2011, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Winger

I just flew it and its slow, cant turn tight, breaks fast... Pretty shitty. Anyone that can confirm or say anything diffrent?

Besides. It takes ages to heat up. Pretty useless if you ask me. I think you cant even catch a bomber with it

Feels more like a G500

For those that know the fiat 500...

Winger

kamikaze?

winny · #14 08-21-2011, 09:32 PM

It seems to me that the thing that the G50 does best is kill Itallian Pilots.
It's fantastic at that.

Winger · #15 08-21-2011, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by RCAF_FB_Orville

Yes its rubbish Winger mate (are you the Winger of 'ROF'? Had some good dog fights with you in the past if so.....DR1 fiend lol) but undermodelled like almost everything else. Still hardly a stellar fighter though in any event.

PS edit your *naughty word* quickly Winger or you'll get banned. Not that it bothers me.....ITS FOR THE KIDS>>>>SAVE THE CHILDREN!!!

Kids these days know more swear words than me anyway. Or maybe that just applies in Newcastle.

Yes, i am Winger from ROF. The DR Jockey

Nice to meet you here. Ill edit it. Thanks for the tip.

Winger

Feathered_IV · #16 08-21-2011, 11:51 PM

Funny thing is, the G.50 did not even see any action in the Battle of Britain. It was all the Fiat CR42. Which of course is not flyable. A very stupid decision

Blackdog_kt · #17 08-22-2011, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by JG53Frankyboy

but in general, IMHO to ad these italian planes was a waste of time, having in mind how late they appeared 1940 and how low there influence was.........
the whole work should have been put into Wellington cockpits instead!

I think they just saw a historically accurate chance to introduce a couple of aircraft that would be useful for a future Mediterranean/N.Africa add-on and took it.

Don't know if it's underpowered in terms of HP per specific power settings but what it's actually missing is it's WEP setting and we all know WEP in CoD is a temporary thing, so i don't expect a lot of performance improvements.

That's pretty much accurate however, in one case a few of them were scrambled against a Blenheim that was overflying their airfield in Belgium through low cloud cover (either on a reconnaissance or a lone intruder mission) and they couldn't catch it.

What is it good for then? Set up a QMB mission against some gladiators and see for yourself, it's actually pretty good fun

caprera · #18 08-22-2011, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Rickusty

Fiat was a huge competitor and represented a huge industrial actor,so just think of the most obscure behind-the-scenes actions(bribes), and just do the math

That's not far from the truth, as it was somewhat hard to force FIAT to produce Macchi 202 as well even if was proved beyond any doubt that it was clearly superior...

justme262 · #19 08-22-2011, 09:00 AM

WAIT! It's got a pair of 50cals ! They even have incendiary-HE rounds if you load em... of course a 50 cal is too small to really bother with HE, and the G50 couldn't catch a Blenheim so not much you can do about that.

The camo paint job looked pretty cool in the Italian papers at the time i guess...

JG53Frankyboy · #20 08-22-2011, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

I think they just saw a historically accurate chance to introduce a couple of aircraft that would be useful for a future Mediterranean/N.Africa add-on and took it.

yep, and the next adon will be easterfront (most propably far away from the finnish front)

anyway, even for an MTO these two FIATs are not the first choice IMHO ........
but, its done , it already happened,so.......