only landing flaps for spitfires???

[David198502]

hey guys!!!
i was wondering if the spit have only landing flaps, or if it has also a stage for combat. i ask this because since i played the offline campaign with the udssr in kuban, i recognized that the autopilot put during a fight the flaps in the middle.

[Wiskey-Charlie]

1940 MK1 they were either down or up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFj8NDqZhlc

[TheGrunch]

And every other version until the very late Seafires (1947ish I think)

[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!