Bug ???

[Foxx]

LAST EDITED ON Dec-23-02 AT 10:35AM (EST)[p]OK... what is the matter...

I already posted this befor but i still think its strange...

You can try this out yourself and give a reaction...

When i fly the P-51 and make a sharp turn by pulling back on the joystick it stalls very often and i loose control and fall down... YOU CAN EVEN MAKE AN SHARPER TURN WITH AN BOEING 747....
When i fly an other plane like the spitfire it doesn't happen...
The P-51 is suppost to be the best fighter in WO2...

I already reinstalled but that doesn't help...

Anyone else noticed this ??????

[argueman99]

The Spit is a turn and burn dogfighter

The Mustang is a bigger, heavier, boom-and-zoom aircraft.

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[Foxx]

Ow... ok i thought the mustang was a "turn and burn" dogfighter too ...

I guess not then.... too bad :( :(

[argueman99]

Not exactly. It can turn and burn with quite a few of 'em. But an FW-190 or an A6M Zero would eat it for lunch in a turning fight. Of course, in the Mustang you have enough power to use the vertical too.

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[SoothingAloeVera]

Yeah, I've been complaining about-incidentally, Merry Christmas! to one and all- an *apparent* flight model screwup as well... although my experience isn't that wide, the CFS3 P-51 handles like it's towing a caravan. You swap from the Mustang to the Spitfire, and it's as though gravity ceases to apply. I'm getting a little curious about *why*, if the P-51 did actually handle like that, it can even be mentioned in the same breath as the Spitfire, FW-190, and the Boeing 747..?

[Foxx]

OK guys i got the solution from an other forum...

The P-51D (which most of us use) has an extra fuel tank behind the cockpit which makes it hard to fly because of the weight of the fuel.
The P-51B hasn't got that problem... it's still not as good as the spitfire but it's better then the P-51D...

2 other things u could do:

- Don't pull that hard, mustang has thin wings for more speed but they procuce less lift...
- U could fly with less fuel in the P-51D that helps too...

Foxx

[Josh10524]

pulling the stick all the way back will result in a stall, but if you don't quite fully pull the stick back you will turn a lot harder. the 51 requires more integration of the rudder and ailerons than other planes. so try NOT pulling so hard, dont completely roll the plane sideways, keep the nose up a little, and apply some more rudder.

[BillKing20]

It seems to me that the Microsoft design team carefully read historical accounts of each fighter's individual handling characteristics, and then they exaggerated these differences in their new sim. I guess its hard for them to predict in advance whether there would be too many complaints about how all the planes fly the same, or just the opposite.






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