Sure some versions of IL2 Sturmovik are harder to fly than others, but unless you have hours in a real WWII aircraft, or maybe some civvy aircraft, then you are not really qualified to comment on which is more 'realistic".
I know real pilots that fly IL2. One says it is damn good the way it is now.
I have been flying IL2 since 2001. I still have the original IL2 on my hard drive and fly it now and then. It is different and it is harder to get things done, but the new one has so many improvements I will take it over the original for sure.
Those of use that have been flying IL2 for ten years have much more experience than any WWII pilot ever had. Combine that with the lack of fear of death, and we are absolute magicians in our digital aircraft. If someone did what we do for real in an airshow somewhere in a WWII fighter it would make the news all over the world.
It is the amount of combat experience that is unusual for most IL2 pilots to have. In WWII most of the pilots were kids, scared shitless half the time and without a small fraction of the combat experience that IL2 sim pilots have under their belts.
I was reading in an article on P-40 fighter aircraft where there is only one recorded example of a pilot recovering one from a spin under 5000 feet altitude and living to tell about it. I know that I can do this easily in IL2, but it could be as much my great experience and lack of fear of death and panic as it is the IL2 flight models. I have nothing to lose when I fly, sitting in comfort in my home at a desk.....
|
01-20-2011, 02:20 PM
Threaded Mode