La-5fn

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by Ferigno

Well, I had a couple matches yesterday against MCGIVERN, and he pretty much showed that he can OWN you in an LA-7. I had some very competent wingmates in a 3v3. We won 20-17. He had 17 kills. It was ridiculous. On realistic at first, then on sim, equally as dominant.

So I've been trying to fly the thing. It turns well, but I can't hit a thing. The fire rate is so tremendously slow and it hardly fires any tracers. Very frustrating.

What are your thoughts on this plane as a realistic or sim choice?

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Thank you, please your to kind. *Smiles and waves to the audience* Anyway, the reason the guns are slow firing is because they're 20mm cannons, and not MGs. If you want something fast and good like the La-5FN, take up the Yak-3 which has twin MGs and one nose 20mm cannon.

And I agree it has hardly any tracers, but I don't use tracers really to get a positioning on where I'm firing. Usually I just use the little dashes on the reflector sight to see where I'm shooting. It always helps, and I always get good kills on my friend. Hehehe

Also, both the La-5FN and La-7 have both their cannons positioned in the same place. So either plane, your going to have the difficulty of firing around the target, which shouldn't really happen in the first place because you should be firing up close and personal. Not 2,000+ feet away.