The P-51D Conundrum

[o351]

Originally Posted by Pup

I've found the same thing with the P-51. The thing is, I don't remember it being as unforgiving in the demo for the Tiger Hunt mission. Also, if the plane I is designed to be flown at higher altitudes, then it don't help much when you get missions with it like Tiger Hunt to fire rockets at ground targets and fend off enemy fighters

great point about tiger hunt! i may have 8 to 10 hrs in the p-51d and I getting better so if you like it dont give up, learn to use its advanteges and slowly add back the elevator do not touch the airleorns(settings) and every turn needs some rudder! I have and love the av8r however when you stall its a little tough to recover but by all means I would recommend this stick!
p.s. Im at about 45 kill on capture the airfeild with my p-51d so about 5 more hours and I have my rockets
p.s.s. if anyone wants to fly there mustangs with me hit me up GT. o351 I prefere CTA and Strike (if we play strike you can escort my B-17

[MorgothNL]

GOOD NEWS P-51 FANS!

Im gonna qoute a dev here:
Hello guys!

We studied P-51 flight model and made some minor corrections. Our QA team are checking it right now.
All flight models were taken from PC IL-2.

and later:
So last updates: we have found some issues, that were indeed in the game. Long story how it happend, but it is fixed.
Also, good guess from you, guys, help us to increase performance of P51 - it has full fuel tanks, and this decreased it performance.


so we might get a nice P-51 after all !

[dzyeph]

Originally Posted by MorgothNL

GOOD NEWS P-51 FANS!

Im gonna qoute a dev here:
Hello guys!

We studied P-51 flight model and made some minor corrections. Our QA team are checking it right now.
All flight models were taken from PC IL-2.

and later:
So last updates: we have found some issues, that were indeed in the game. Long story how it happend, but it is fixed.
Also, good guess from you, guys, help us to increase performance of P51 - it has full fuel tanks, and this decreased it performance.


so we might get a nice P-51 after all !

Registered just to say that's brilliant, really looking forward to a nicer-handling P-51, I started off thinking I was absolutely terrible as the P-51 was the first plane I tried on realistic but quickly came to the conclusion it was the plane I was having severe issues with.

Very shiny

[Raw Kryptonite]

This make sense now. Full of fuel that thing could barely fly, much less maneuver and accelerate on demand. By the time it got to it's objective it would have burned enough off to be effective.
Really happy with Gaijin for listening to everyone.

[Pup]

I just read this over on the dev forums, great news. The fact it is in the QA process makes me kinda hopeful that the rest of the patch is too, but I can only hope

[King Jareth]

Has anyone tried putting it on limited fuel on training (1 AI on rookie in something easy to avoid) unlimited time just to see what its like at a lower fuel load?

[MorgothNL]

Originally Posted by Raw Kryptonite

This make sense now. Full of fuel that thing could barely fly, much less maneuver and accelerate on demand. By the time it got to it's objective it would have burned enough off to be effective.
Really happy with Gaijin for listening to everyone.

are you saying, that if I would take a P-51 mission, and first flew for hours, and then tried to dogfight. It will actually fly like it is going to be flying after the update?

Do you reallly notice that much difference from the burning fuel in this game?
And if it was a full tank, like the devs said, it would take about 6 hours to burn the fuel to a nice combat amount

[King Jareth]

If you can trim to a nice level flight you could just leave it flying in training and go do something else*, the map edge magic turn around would do all the work.

(*-popping back now and then to check its all okay, and assuming you made the AI plane something slow and with equally as big tanks....and stupid.).

[MorgothNL]

Originally Posted by King Jareth

If you can trim to a nice level flight you could just leave it flying in training and go do something else*, the map edge magic turn around would do all the work.

(*-popping back now and then to check its all okay, and assuming you made the AI plane something slow and with equally as big tanks....and stupid.).

for about 6 hours ? Only by that time, will you have 'the same amount' of fuel left, as a bf-109.

because that is what we want right? to have the same endurance in the P-51 as in a 109. I dont want the 'advantage' of having a higher endurance. I want the same endurance, and with the according performance.

i know the P-51 strenghts are the endurance and its high alt performance, but in this game you dont fly above 5000' and to stay in the air for more than 30 min .

[King Jareth]

I'm not suggesting you do it every game!

Originally Posted by MorgothNL

are you saying, that if I would take a P-51 mission, and first flew for hours, and then tried to dogfight. It will actually fly like it is going to be flying after the update?

Do you reallly notice that much difference from the burning fuel in this game?

It was meerly a way to answer your question.