Well, stall behavior in Il-2 has always been a little wonky, but yaw from engine torque/p-factor/gyro-precession/prop wash seems to only have been implemented after Pacific Fighters. Before it seemed planes were on rails and all I had to do was point a vector and go there.
I'm not saying that FM for specific aircraft are better than before. As I've never flown in a WWII plane, I can't argue about anything in that area. What I was talking about was overall 'feel' and impressions. The latest version seems better than the oldest, but let me be the first to say that it is still very far from perfect.
Sadly, even using a restored plane to base a flight model off of is still imperfect. Today, those planes use different fuels, and are never opened up to full power, to prevent any kind of damage to the priceless and rare engines. It would involve a lot of extrapolation, which may end up being way off, and the costs of taking a WWII plane up with accelerometers would be immense for any flight sim developer.
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01-08-2010, 10:00 PM
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