[ACE-OF-ACES]

Hey guys, rather than get all steamed up about which FM is more/less whatever than another FM, might I say the following:

1. No two serial numbers of the same aircraft type fly exactly the same. Maybe one is slightly out of rig. Or maybe some nutjob freight dog did loops in the damn thing and bent an engine mount (don't laugh....it was a -58 Baron) so it flys crooked. Maybe they call the Director of Maintenance "Dead Body" for a reason. Maybe it has two different (both legal...) propellors because they can't afford to get a run-out prop (of either spec...) overhauled. There's a million reasons why one or another airplane will "fly" differently than it's stablemates.

2. Wouldn't it be easier to use an industry accepted engineering tool designed to predict aircraft performance etc (X-Plane...) and try to tweak our FM to approximate that as closely as possible?

3. IL-2 ain't really a simulator, is it? The program itself has limitations that prevent it from ever actually emulating an airplane.

4. Whatever hardware you're running with makes a huge difference in the way IL-2 "feels", and how any of our "simulated" aircraft will respond/behave to control inputs. Moreover, some folks make way better control inputs than others, and much as in real airplane flying, the sim-airplane will tell a guy which sort he is, if he's paying attention.

5. There are people in this community who have never actually flown, much less for thousands upon thousands upon thousands of hours, and who have no clue as to basic aerodynamics, real aircraft operating limitations, SOP's or explaining to the boss why it wasn't them who broke part x of assembly y which put airplane z out of commission for 36 hours, grounded somewhere in BFE, generating negative revenue. How many vids have you watched where the guy "demonstrates" something or another and you notice that he runs the engine(s) at "radar power" for the entire flight? Where he steams to about a one mile final at 275 knots indicated, jerks the power to idle and slams the gear and flaps down simultaneously? God bless them each and every one.

6. The purpose of IL-2 is to have fun.

Hi mach-overspeed

I can't say it any better than Fireskull said it

But I will add this

I am currently working on my website where I pull together all the tests I have done thus far..

There not all up yet and there are a few bugs here and there

But if your interested take a look

http://www.flightsimtesting.com/

Currently I don't have a forum to discuss the topics listed there

But AAS and UltraPack both have forums dedicated to flight model discussions

viewforum.php?f=141

http://ultrapack.il2war.com/index.php/board,18.0.html

You can reach me in either forum if you have any questions about the data posted at my site

S!