OK just installed the AAA unified installer. Great amazing what has been done.
However I took the Blenheim for a spin and apart from no engine overheat all flight functions were on full real, stalls, blackouts etc....
I could not for the life of me get the Blenheim to go out of control. I even got it fully vertical and go into a tail slide and this was at low level and I recovered without a crash. Now are other planes like this? ie dead simple FM even with realism options turned on? It is great for a laugh but I reckon I could take on a 109 no problem. Now if only the AI was programmed to exploit that...we'd be up the proverbial...
8.9.2008
I do not know if the Blenhaim sim model is a bit exaggerating, but in reality the Blenheims were indeed very good and agile to fly.
Finnish Blenheim pilots knew and mastered their planes, and used its good flying capabilities for flying on treetops to escape enemies, or to approach targets unnoticed. Best pilots could fly it very low in fog or dark, too.
It was quite manouverable, and regularly pilots could either dive it down to treetops to get away from slow fighters, or try curve tighter than fast opponents. Very few Blenheims were shot down despite their very active use in the Winter War, which was part thanks to its good flying properties, and part to well trained pilots and good mission planning.
OK, but not getting it to stall? I don't mind cos I can now have some really interesting scenarios.
The question of stall behaviour is interesting. In IL2 its treated as a generic condition (as far as I can see) so the aircraft pretty much do the same things. There's probably a value for the point at which the aircaft loses normal aorflow over the wing and begins to spin, but thats actually a simplification of reality. On one occaision I was training in a Piper Tomahawk and the instructor told me, for practice at using the rudder, to hold the aeroplane on the point of stalling by keeping the stick back. The aircraft descended in a glide trying its best to outbalance itself whilst I sweated with the rudder bars. Some aircraft stall very easily, and there are one or two designs that never seemed able to despite a test pilots best efforts. Once stalled, some airaft are very forgiving, like most Cessnas, or not, like the Harvard trainer. The Arado 240 for instance had some very dodgy stall behaviour so I understand, one reason why it was never accepted for general service.
As to why your Blenheim is so well behaved in the sim, its got to be something to do with the flight model, and to be honest whilst the real aircraft was a good flyer I don't remember any praise for its stall characteristics.
guys, this is rather pointless IMHO .... as there is no way that default plane FM will get changed/modded ( AAA rule )
only as new slot planes they can get new FM
as for present ones FM's goes .... developers did say that some older planes ( as early introduced in game) still have simplified flight model so ....
regards
Z
