How close have you come to blackout?

[haitch40]

ive had a total blackout
109s spew so much oil lol

[Panzergranate]

I managed a blackout last night whilst flying a Finnish B-239 Buffalo in a career mission on IL-2 "Forgotten Battles".

I'd flown a few missions with this aircraft but never had to actually pull any serious stunts or evades with it until then.

I was chasing a Russian L2D tansport plane when a Russian P-40 latched onto my tail. Without thinking, I instinctively I rolled to 90 Degrees left and pulled back hard on a stick. This made the Buffalo pull a 100 yard radius left turn at close to 300 MPH.... and the G-force blacked me out for 4 seconds.

A normal fighter would have pulled a far wider several hundred yard radius turn and not pulled the same G-force, hence why I performed the maneuver.

Fortunately the Buffalo is famous for being unable to spin both in real life and in simulators, so the plane didn't do anything bad by itself. I also had plenty of altitude

The Russian P-40 was nowhere to be seen, obviously being unable to follow.

I'd lost my fix on the transports and the other Finnish fighters were rapidly wiping the sky clear of Russian aircraft, so I decided to shoot up an airfield I'd spotted earlier. I score 5 grounded aircraft, all the FlaK guns and a few trucks before the guns ran dry. I always use up the nose guns first and then use the wing guns when straffing as it gives more firing time.

In IL-2 BOP on the 360, I've had a cockpit hit on a Me-163 Komet cause what seemd like an Oxygen tank failure during a dogfight at 30,000 Feet plus. The cockpit area was black and there was the sound of gasping for air and haziness around the screen edges until I dropped to around 10,000 Feet.

[Reddisback]

Originally Posted by haitch40

ive had a total blackout
109s spew so much oil lol

that happend to me several times, actually.
but it was a Spitfire that caused them LOL

[trk29]

I have never seen any sign of a red out, but I have had the edges shrink in on me and all sounds dissapear except the breathing during a black out but not totally.

[Factor]

I blacked out this morning after finishing off two twelve packs, and half a fifth of Makers.

Don't feel so hot now.

[xX-SiLeNcE-Xx]

Originally Posted by Factor

I blacked out this morning after finishing off two twelve packs, and half a fifth of Makers.

Don't feel so hot now.

Bahaha

[kozzm0]

For practice with accurate g effects without spending any money on it, try downloading the Targetware beta. Almost entirely user-created, it includes all the details people usually mention when they complain about the accuracy of commercial sims, as it was made by ones who complained. It's not complete, and nobody ever plays it, but it strives for realism above all else. Including flak that kills you quick, unforgiving blackouts and redouts, accurate ammunition and ordnance amounts and effects. And fully configurable stick characteristics, including for gamepads. Also real bombsights.

Not to mention, no WEP, and the engine still overheats if you're not careful... also, no HUD, must use the cockpit instruments.

Anyone who gets Targetware, look me up for a one-on-one battle in the Tobruk module ("Tobruk must fall" is a good air-to-air scenario). Unless you manage to find someone else playing, which I can't.

[trk29]

Can people play against each other if they run different os, mac and windows?