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I have been using Neofly 4 for a while now and overall like very much. One issue I have noticed is with the qualifications the most I can get is 2 stars even though it said I passed the test anyone else noticed this?

I tried your suggested setting and the plane flew great now it acts like I would expect thanks! I will move the trim setting in the .cfg tomorrow and see how that works. It was set at .3 and I could tell it could use more as it wasn't very responsive...

Barfly thanks for the suggestions I'll give them a try tonight, right now I have the elevator trim sensitivity at .3 and the difficulty level set to medium in FSW while I get a feel for the plane. I also have the elevator and aileron axis sensitivity set at 7. I didn't think about the CG being to far aft which would make it want to really climb on a small amount of up trim, I was flying it last night and I have the trim set at 1.7-2 down which made it fly level with less input on the stick. On take off I have to have it at 1.5 nose down trim to keep it from jumping off the runway at 90 mph before the tail is coming level off the runway. I see how it goes tonight...

I downloaded the P-40 Friday night and just spent an couple of hours flying it here's my thoughts: External modeling is really nice! Cockpit is also modeled very well, there are a number of switches that are not active yet but as the plane and sim evolve I'm sure they will be adding more functions. Cold and dark start up check list is ok it takes you through what you need to get the A/C up and going. I located the documentation included with plane which is here: under steam - common > FSW > DLC > 630916 > Bluesky FS > Curtiss P40 Warhawk. nice pdf manual I like to have these on the desktop for quick access. Taxing not very realistic she is a bear to taxi. I have a number of hours in the A2A P51 and it much more manageable but that's probably not a very fair comparison but it seems much to sensitive to rudder input and it seems to take a lot of throttle got get it moving. The brakes seem fine just have to watch you don't do a nose plant. Following the check list and setting 1 unit nose up for trim on takeoff caused the plane to lift off to early and go into a nose high attitude and stall. So I set the trim to 0 but it still took a bunch of rudder and brakes to get it down the runway and airborne, once off it climbed well. I had my sensitivity on my controls set to 2 with .5 null. It responses to the ailerons and elevator much better at those settings. Took it through some barrel rolls and loops which it did well one thing I noticed was it was WAY to sensitive to the Elevator trim! I tried the trim on my both X55 throttle rotary and X55 stick switch with it set to slow. One or 2 hits on the nose up trim which moves the cockpit control about a 1/4 unit and the A/C goes into a 6000 FPM climb! Level the plane out and hit 3 clicks down trim and it goes into 4K fpm decent and if don't watch it pretty shortly its heading almost straight down, it very hard to trim the A/C for level flight. It also doesn't seem to response like it should to power changes when level I cut the power from 35 in to 20 in manifold pressure and the speed starts to bleed off but it doesn't start to descend like you would expect. It liked to stay in level flight until it stalls which it shouldn't do, which also make it kind of a bear to land I really have to watch what I'm doing. I did some experiments with the .cfg file and yes I did back it the original up. I looked at the A2A p51 .CFG to see what they set the elevator and rudder trim sensitivity to. Elevator was .2 and rudder was .62 so I tried those values in the P40 which help it a bunch but it still wasn't great. Another thing I noticed was if I climbed at 1000 fpm then neutral the stick it would continue to increase its climb rate until it was almost vertical then stall and fall off to the left into a spin. I also noticed when I call up the GPS its blue and the display is off center so I'm wondering if I got a bad download which I check later. Just thought I throw this out and see if anyone else is seeing these same issues before I start digging into my system. Other than some tweaking in the flight model it is a really nice plane!