I downloaded the fantastic looking F4-U corsair by Hulin Guy. It flies fine when I start in the air, but any time I try to take off it turns very hard to the left and I crash. Any one else having this problem?

Before you take off go to the outside view and check the rudder position. If it's hard to the left and you are using CH USB rudder pedals try unpluging the pedals for about ten seconds and then plugging them in again and see if the rudder centers. This is a fairly common problem.David

Hi there!YES! :-grr. I'm having the same problem. What you have to do is just give it a small amount of power to get rolling about 30%. Then apply right pedal to keep it straight(just a little). The reason for this is the engine torque. You will pick up enough speed to get into the air and then give it more power. Turn off crash until you get use to this aircraft.Hope this helps.HuggsKittiex:)~ This system is: AMD 64 3500+ 939 ASUS A8V Deluxe with wifi GCorsair TwinX1024 3200 XL Pro 2 36gig W.D. Raptor drives in Raid256 X800 ProWindow xp homeAntec True power 550wThermaltake Premier V5000A case

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HAd the same problem. Its mentioned in the docs that came with the plane. I did manage to get it off the gorund the last time I tried though. It just takes a bit of practice. Once you get the tail wheel up off the ground it get much easier to keep it in line...

For me it helps to keep the tail wheel unlocked.I keep the prop fully featheredand about 30% throttle,pretty much full right rudder, and ocasional use of the toe breaks. Once the Tail comes up I gently increase prop pitch and throttle. Full joystick sensitivity and no null zones help alot since the commands your giving happen immeaditely. I cant imagine flying the plane with out rudderpedals and toe breaks, though I have heard that Auto Rudder will keep it straight on the runway.The key is to keep the engine torque down as much as possible. Wich means keep that throttle back. Practice on the longest widest runway you can find and as you learn to controll the beast move to smaller and smaller airfields, eventually the dreaded Carrier take off and landing, but I'll give ya two days to master that ;)

I'm slowly getting the hang of it. I'm used to the Reno Air Races P51 with all the torque... so it helps.

There is absolutley no way that this resembles the real flying qualities of this aircraft. Only being able to give it 30" of manifold pressure on and still running out of right rudder on takeoff? And as far as using the prop control on takeoff is absolutley crazy. I am a pilot in real life and you never touch the prop lever on takeoff...it's always full forward for full rpm. These aiplanes were used during the war on unimproved airfields with relativly short runways. There was no such thing as a mile long runway for fighters. So if you could only use 30" on takeoff you would run out of runway way before you got in the air. I realize that there is a huge torque effect on takeoff but i think it is a little excessive. Please help

go into the aircraft CFG and find the linep_factor_on_yaw = 4Change the 4 to about 2 or 1.5 and it will be much more realstic. I also agree that the affect is way overboard.