27 minutes ago, leprechaunlive said:

The crash détection is a little strange in msfs. To lead a better life, just get rid of it alltogether (the crash detection).

I never crash, I just land vertically at high speed, pointing nose down on occasion. 🤣

How is VR on this plane?   Seems a bit steep on price...

 

 

2 minutes ago, karlz said:

How is VR on this plane?   Seems a bit steep on price...

 

 

we didnt think it was that steep, we tried to align with the market. but we are first timers, and no business men by any means, so we might have got it wrong. 🙂

as for VR, we had several VR testers saying its really good. And im not just saying that lol. i am actually quite realistic in my views, i dlnt really mind people telling us its bad, as long as its argumented ( no one said it yet tho). In all the preview builds we sent to streamers and youtubers, we made it very clear that if some things are not quite right, they SHOULD say it out loud to the users. Maybe a terrible business plan, or, maybe we are just confident we made quite a nice product for you all 🙂 ( bit of both probably 😄 )

Wish I could just blow off work to go fly this, but it will have to wait until the end of the day.  Gotta work for the man...  Congrats on the release and positive feedback thus far!

Edited April 22, 20215 yr by marsman2020

Just now, marsman2020 said:

Wish I could just blow off work to go fly this, but it will have to wait until the end of the day.  Gotta work for the man...  Congrats on the release and positive feedback thus far!

overwhelmingly good feedback i have to say, mind blown 🙂

 

3 hours ago, Chock said:

I never crash, I just land vertically at high speed, pointing nose down on occasion. 🤣

Thats happens to me way too often, wich is why i turn OFF crash detection 😄 Many times, our flight engineer asked me, "how do you find the approach and landing behaviour?", to wich i always replied. "DONT ask me about landings 😄 "

 

Edited April 22, 20215 yr by leprechaunlive

Curious if there is an RCAF paint included with this?

5 minutes ago, regis9 said:

Curious if there is an RCAF paint included with this?

right now liveries include RAAF, USAF, USAAC, AVG, and a Russian one (plus a silly bonus one). Did the  canadians have B variants?

im working on extra liveries for a free update that will include a Tuskegee tribute, and a civilian one (Duxford inspired).

Actually looking further it seems the Canadian P40B squadrons were actually operated using RAF equipment, so no Canadian markings in any event.  The Canadian owned aircraft squadrons were Kittyhawks.

Well, I've was having fun with my computer courtesy of the audio messing up and refusing to record the V/O thanks to ATI's GPU software deciding to turn off my microphone playback, and then Adobe Premiere deciding to join in the fun and go bonkers with its audio playback as well. It all made doing a review of this an 'interesting' experience, with much swearing ensuing, especially after I found that I had to completely re-record it all (twice) because the V/O was missing.

Then just to add to the fun, halfway through the proceedings Asobo decided to release a compulsory update as well, which made it an even longer faff about whilst doing some re-recordings. But eventually it got done, and is why I left the somewhat 'exciting' take-off in there. Anyway, it's worth a look if you are on the fence about this one.

 

 

 

Nice review Chock!  Love the reviews, and your historical knowledge of the aircraft.

 

Think I need to get it now!

1 hour ago, karlz said:

Nice review Chock!  Love the reviews, and your historical knowledge of the aircraft.

 

Think I need to get it now!

He is extremely knowledgeable indeed. He often messes up take offs tho 😄 😄 

54 minutes ago, leprechaunlive said:

He is extremely knowledgeable indeed. He often messes up take offs tho 😄 😄 

Yup, taking off sideways at Barton in the sim is my speciality, I've got it down to a fine art. Although fortunately I've never actually taken off from there sideways in real life, which is just as well because there's a sewage treatment plant on the other side of the motorway and you wouldn't want to end up coming down in that place like one guy did many years ago. 💩 🤣

The developer - Oz Wookie - suggested it may have been a case of the occasionally weird Asobo CoG on the thing which caused that swing on take off, which might be true, since it doesn't normally happen that fiercely if you bring up the throttle slowly and make sure you have plenty of impetus down the runway before getting the tail up, then increasing the throttle. But having said that, it could just as easily have been some rubbish driving on my part lol.

In any case I'm not letting Asobo take the credit for my spectacular stunt take offs. That kind of thing takes years to perfect! 🤣

So long as it isn't a sim-stopping crash, I like leaving things like that in reviews rather than cheating and doing it again, because a review is intended to show the thing as it really is, including sometimes being tricky to fly, rather than something trying to make me look like I'm some kind of super-pilot who never cocks anything up. 😉

Interestingly, there is a fun technique you can observe from the take off on that video which I did when it was running out of room and the trees were getting close, in order to expedite the lift off, and it is a handy trick to know about if you like taildragger WW2 stuff in your flight sims. It actually does work in real life; I've done so often that it is kind of an automatic response to try it now which is why you see it on that botched take off roll...

What you do, is give it a big aileron deflection when you want to expedite the lift off, so as to pick one main wheel off the deck. Doing this will often help to unstick the thing a bit sooner. What happens, is the friction decreases a little bit with one main wheel off the ground and it also lets a bit more airflow get under the wing to hit the split flaps as the ground effect kicks in, as the air deflects off the flaps and bounces down onto the runway, this takes advantage of Newton's Third Law of Motion to kick you up off the runway. When that happens, the other wheel which was on the ground also lifts off and that reduces friction too, so your airspeed picks up a bit quicker. If you look at footage of taildragger bombers and transports such as the C-47 in WW2, when they are taking off with heavy loads, you will occasionally see them using that trick to help unstick themselves, and they almost certainly would have been doing that with P40s in the AVG, since their aeroplanes were modified to carry 1,000 lb bombs in the CBT. 🚀

Edited April 23, 20215 yr by Chock

That was a great Review Alan, had me LOL, and hiding..that takeoff.....lol.

Its got far more to it than I thought it would have. Very entertaining and informitive, thanks Alan.

Can you link the Manchester add on you use please. I use barton after you showing it in your other reviews, very nice airport.

Edited April 23, 20215 yr by Nyxx

13 hours ago, regis9 said:

Actually looking further it seems the Canadian P40B squadrons were actually operated using RAF equipment, so no Canadian markings in any event.  The Canadian owned aircraft squadrons were Kittyhawks.

I believe they were trained as part of the Empire Air Training scheme and hence became RAF squadrons under RAF control but were permitted to wear their Canadian Uniforms and keep their Canadian ranks.