Why I dislike IL-2 games..

[bobbysocks]

Originally Posted by winny

My favourite aircraft of that era is the Spit (boring choice I know!)

there is nothing boring about a spit. when i had my business back in the 90s i had a customer who make ultralites from scratch. mot just any ultralite..he would build down sized versions of real ac. he did a j3 cub that looked beautiful. i asked him how he did it and told me he used the plans from gillows models and resized (and obviously modded them to aluminum tubing). he told me if i wanted to build something he would show me how. this got me all hot and bothered and i went out and selected a kit...you would think my selection would be obvious...but i picked an old spit. my only concern was the narrow landing gear set up. life and kids and little league all got in the way and i was never able to pursue this...and still kick myself. to me nothing romanticizes dueling in the skies like an older spit...save for maybe a sopwith camel or fokker d vii.

as for the time machine...we kind of have that. a newer member arekci has yet to play the game but has flown a 51d in real life. will be interesting to get his view on how things translate.