only landing flaps for spitfires???

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by SEE

I'm on the USN pacific mission and there are no flaps whatsoever on the F4F-3 and the ac guide doesn't mention what flap settings are available for the ac in it. I wonder if I'm missing something here or, may be the f4f-3 simply doesn't have them.......all the other ac I have tried so far have 'landing' and 'raised' settings if nothing else.......

The F4F-3 should have working flaps - 'up', 'combat', 'takeoff' and 'landing'. I'd check you haven't accidentally set the flaps up/down controls to something else. You should see them move in external view.

Or perhaps you left them in a down position at high speed - this will jam them so they can't be moved for the rest of the flight. Actually, the Wildcat hardly needs flaps for takeoff, unless you are operating from a carrier, and I don't think that the 'combat' flap setting actually makes much difference to low-speed manoeuvrability.

EDIT-- Just seen IceFire's post below. I'd forgotten about the automatic retraction.... That probably explains it.