Having flown WWII aviation sims since the computer was born and playing the 3 major realistic ones, Warbirds, Aces high, and IL2 series I can tell you that none of them are without their flaws but IL2 has a far more realistic flight model. The sim creator Oleg Maddox worked at the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau before doing simulators. That is right, he was an aeronautical engineer at MIG! So tell me who is better qualified to produce a simulation of flight? Also he has access to documentation that would be hard for the average Joe to come across regarding WWII aircraft performance.
Originally Posted by nathris View Post
I don't think its very realistic at all. WW2 era aircraft were supposed to be easy to fly, with minimal training required, but I tried realistic mode, and if I moved the analog stick a fraction too far my aircraft would suddenly go into a physics defying, unrecoverable spin. If it were like that in real life we would have lost more pilots in the war to crashes than the enemy. In fact, we probably wouldn't have any pilots because we would have lost them all in training.
What makes you think that cutting edge technology in the late 1930's and early 1940's where they strapped monster 3,000 HP engines into the smallest airframes packed with fuel armor and ammunition would be easy to fly? Your joking right? The average American fighter pilot went thru 14 months of training first in class, then in two seat bi planes such as the PT-19 then they soloed in a biplane, then on to two seat monoplanes
. By the time of graduation you could expect out of a class of 25 guys to lose 5 from accidents and 10 more as wash outs. Then after all that you got your specialised training at say a P-40 at your unit.
And as far as pulling the stick back to far and stalling, Its called a high speed stall. If you turn faster than the weight and momentum of the aircraft will allow the the aircraft will be going one way why your wings are facing the direction you pulled. Airflow over the wing will be disrupted and the wing will stall! Once that happens you have the force of the prop and the torque of the motor trying to spin you like a top.