How do you fly a Fw-190?

[fritzwendel]

Originally Posted by Chooky88

Cheers for that! the 190 was a ripper of a plane and the rotary engine made it a bit different to other land based fighters (Anyone know why Roatary was preffered by Navies and in line and V engines for Air Forces???)

Are you talking about RADIAL engines, or rotary? The Fdub uses a radial, fixed position motor, not a rotary engine. Rotary engines spin with the propeller, hence the reason they had bad engine torque characteristics.

[JG27CaptStubing]

Excellent post with the video of the FW doing Rolling scissors. I great tactic but remember it's last ditch and a good Spit driver won't overshoot as often.

In the video he started the fight on pretty much equal terms. Not good for going against Spits in a FW. The key to fighting two or at least one spit and it's been mentioned before is coming in with a signifigant altitude advantage and bouncing them. You can force them to go defensive from the get go. In the video they went offensive and quickly turned it into a defensive fight for that pilot. The FW driver was lucky and got off a quick snap shot on one of them but that was about it.

The roll in the FW is far better than a Spit and High Speed. You will have to use rolling and your speed to get away. I have yet to try it out in this game but that's how it works in IL2 1946.