[P/O W. 'Moggy' Cattermole]

Locking tailwheel helps for many things to a degree, but the C47 pulls to the side regardless, heavily.

But then it could be my combination of not good pilotship and a joystick with no yaw control which doesn't help. There was a multiplayer map on carriers that i couldn't fly on at all. There was so much torque on the aircraft that i could get it down the runway and off the end fine (in more or less a straight line), but my controls aren't fine enough to hold them in the air. It pulled one way and if left alone, it hit the sea and if you tried to correct it, the aircraft stalled and dropped into the sea anyway! Tbm, corsair, the other US aircraft whose names i forget (F4u?). The carriers were stationary, and i couldn't get enough speed. I even turned the craft around and taxied as far back as possible (happily there was no one to witness the farce!) and took off from there, with no luck. But i suspect that my own merry inneptitude had something to do with that and all.