Oh yes - forgot the big one - the ground attack routines for various AI planes (mainly American for some reason) are currently suicidal when rocket-firing or strafing. Examples are the F4U, P-47, P-38 and TBF. I think this is due to their tendency to take on two targets in one dive and fire two or more rockets or strafe twice - it greatly increases their likelihood of ploughing into the ground.

Also the Fw-190F-8 seems to get itself into a strange low-level death-spin due to the tight turns it tries to make when strafing.

Questions
 

Questions to TD:

Rear seat for Beaufighter Mk 21 - are there any plans to model this?
Dogfights with moving objects - are there any plans to incorporate any such mechanic?

Hi TD,
First and foremost a big thanks for the great job.

I have a Q for you and that is if you plan on adjusting the FF settings? There is som egreat new hardware regarding hotas's that is out or coming along and the forces really need some attention.

all the best and keep the good work going :)

HaJa

EDIT: I don't want to type everything again but look at my post in the G940 thread and you'll have a possible fix :)

regards

Sorry have been away a few days. No dont belive its unrealistic. I think the pilot was able to do some ajust themself, not putting the flaps all down or up. Looking at old movie the are down, but not in landingpossions. So I belive the settings are all correct. You are just not able to do it, if you dont have the right controls. Buy them and you are allright. :-D

regarding flaps I think (don't have my books at hand right now) that for planes like Hurricane and Spit it's only possible IRL to use Up or Down and a limited number of times since they were operated by pneumatics via the lever in the left top side of cockpit panel.

Other plane I can't remember right now.

Thus I don't have my flaps on a slider but on a button :)

Ju-88 bug: pilot killed when crash landing
 

I think there is an old bug in the Ju-88. When landing, if you do it too fast or your vertical downspeed is too big and you crash on the ground, main undercarriage breaks (normal), cockpit hits the ground (normal) and pilot gets inmediatly "Pilot Killed" (not normal !) . You can see from an external view that the plane is intact, excepting the broken undercarriage, but pilot is dead.

Is it a bug, ? or is it supposed to be due to the glass-cage configuration of the Ju-88's cockpit? In WWII many wounded planes belly-landed in emergency, crashing their undercarriage, in a big dust cloud, but the crew was able to survive, if they could avoid the airplane caught fire in the event.

Of course if the bombardier were still in his nacelle, below the cockpit, it would be smashed, in case of this crash-landing, but, I think, in real life he would leave this position before ! :) , like belly-gunners in B-24 or B-17 would do. But, here in IL-2, it is the poor pilot who always dies ! :(

IL-2 has got now a big chance of solving this and other old bugs, thanks to your efforts. Many thanks to all Team, in advance.

Any news about the next patch?

Nope, sorry. The Spit only had two-position flaps, with setting of 0 and about 90 degrees. Why do you think the lever in the cockpit isn't more precise? It's only got two positions, down and up. They had to wedge blocks of wood in the Seafire flaps to get a ten or fifteen degree position for carrier takeoffs. I'm quite aware that it's possible to vary the flap position on an axis in the game, I've got an X45 with two rotaries on it so I could quite easily bind flaps to one of them, but I don't want to because I think it's unrealistic.

3dof trackir support
 

Sorry if this has been requested already, are there any plans to implement zoom for trackir?

Im aware there was only to posissions. But you dont have to take them all down or all up. And I dont think its unrealistic. Some have asked for a button for auto trim the aircraft. That deffently unrealistic and arcade. Not haveing 6dof is unrealistic. And a lot more cut be mention.

Its not that I personaly have problems if they remove it. I simply just disagree. Im not even fly the spit very often and when I do I never use the flaps. Only on landing.

~S~