Bi Plane

[Soviet Ace]

The I-153 is meant to be a turn & burn fighter, the Po-2 not so much. But if you want to gun down a Po-2, just come up from below, or from the top, coming down on its nose so the gunner can't get a shot Whatever you do, don't turn with a Chaika, it will be your last. LOL

[Wissam24]

IS that because they have so much lift?

[Cwl]

Originally Posted by Wissam24

IS that because they have so much lift?

biplanes usually have huge amounts of lift- two wings you see. this gives them greater manouverability than most monoplanes. the greater speed of monoplanes by WW2 meant biplanes were obsolete.

[Wissam24]

Yeah that was what I assumed.

[beaker126]

I never had the engine cut out on me. Is it only on sim, or what. And why? Is it because like the WWI planes it didn't have it's own starter?

[trk29]

I got the po-2 today and used it in CTA and it totally dominated. I landed once then I circled the runway like a buzzard and when someone would try to land I would drop my bombs on them. Haha this plane is fun, only one wish for me is I want a forward gun on this.

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by trk29

I got the po-2 today and used it in CTA and it totally dominated. I landed once then I circled the runway like a buzzard and when someone would try to land I would drop my bombs on them. Haha this plane is fun, only one wish for me is I want a forward gun on this.

It would probably be a serious pain in the neck to fly, if it had a forward firing gun. If you read the specs of the plane, you'd see why. But they could always have your pilot armed with a pistol? Just like in WW1, the planes used rifles and pistols to shoot at one another. Didn't work well, but it was a shot