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Spitfire flaps question - Dietz - 18.11.2009

I believe this question applies to all Spitfire varients ( & perhpas hurricanes as well, tho I haven't checked)...as most of you know flaps setting are either up or down-no combat or take-off positions,BUT if you put the aircraft on "automatic" on takeoff,the flaps lever goes to about mid way down & so do flaps(checking exterior view.) How is this possible - and can I get this feature to work for me?

- ROSOBORONEXPORTCORP - 18.11.2009

You found a bug! E-mail team Daidalos and maybe they'll remove it for the AI as well. :lol:

- Sidewinder9 - 18.11.2009

In real life, the Spitfire didn't use combat flaps, because it had the oval shaped wings and it wasn't nessary with flaps.

But ingame it can still be useful, and for me it works great.
The thing I am doing, is just programming the flaps in the hotas section to one of my axis' like with the throttle. I don't know if it is possible to do it with the buttons, I don't think so.

- kaban_ger - 18.11.2009

If you have got pedals you can set your flaps on every position you want on every plane of the game.

- Saburo Sakai - 18.11.2009

If you have an X-52 or alike, you can set the flaps via the HOTAS to the thumb slider, that way you can have as much flap as you want Smile

i actually used a logitech and wheel pedals wheel for my trim settings and pedals for the rudder, which was interesting Smile

- mati140 - 18.11.2009

This problem apears with all two-pos.-flaps planes and in all IL-2 versions since original IL-2 Sturmovik. It is problem also with all I-16, all Spitfires and Seafires, all Huricanes etc with 2 pos. of flaps. Developers of this game have never done other Take-off model for those planes, so it looks as it looks

- KG64_Cnopicilin - 18.11.2009

Assign flaps to a slider so you'll get really precise flaps without just no flaps and landing flaps.

- seaniebeag1983 - 18.11.2009

If you dont have a slider spare you can set it to your mouse wheel.

I read a story on another forum somewhere, cant find it now, about a specific group of spitfires being transported somewhere on the front line. They had an external fuel tank mounted to allow them make a longer trip. Because of this fuel load a lower flap setting was required.

So the pilot lowered the flaps all the way, then raised them back up, but not before the ground crew stuck a block of wood between the flap and the trailing edge of the wing, forcing the flap to stic at about 3/4 of full extension.

Once the spit was airborne, the pilot dropped the flaps again, freeing the block of wood which dropped free, and the pilot raised flaps again.

EDIT: Found the post, FS~Lewis at www.skiesoffire.org

Lewis Wrote:An interesting fact I was told during a holiday to Malta was that when the RAF brought in Spits to the island it was easier to take them in via Aircraft carrier but deemed too dangerous to go all the wall to Maltas port with the important cargo. The Spits were then faced with the task of flying the extra distance from the aircraft carrier. This posed 2 main problems that the Spits needed special extra fuel tanks made specifically for the distance and also something would have to be done to decrease the distance for take-off. The tanks were made up and situated directly under the centre of gravity under the fuselage. The simple solution to giving the Spits the Takeoff flaps they needed was to open the flaps fully and to put in a block of wood cut to precisely the right size. The flaps were then shut and the blocks jammed in place giving the right takeoff flap angle. Once the aircraft were airbourne the flaps had to be fully extended to drop the blocks and then closed for normal flight.Below is a SPit taking off for Malta.....The tank can be seen.

[Image: Spitfire_Carrier_Eagle_Marrow.jpg]


- Dietz - 18.11.2009

If you dont have a slider spare you can set it to your mouse wheel.

How? Controls- Flaps up- Flaps down?
How does this effect other aircraft that have 3 different flap settings? :???:

- KG64_Cnopicilin - 18.11.2009

its in the very bottom of the controls page, the flaps axis.

- Dietz - 18.11.2009

YUP THAT WORKS..! Big Grin