My joystick is completely calibrated from Control Panel but here's my problem:

My plane ALWAYS pulls to the left. As soon as I turn engine off, it stops. Is this because I have realistic flight modelling crancked up? Is that normal "torque?"

As for the planes all using the same flight model, they may all use the same underlying physical principles but their coefficients of flight are very different. Have a look at the FLT files in the ww2.sqs archive.

On ace setting those high AOA stalls are deadly, but recoverable, can actually spin a bit, but it could definitely use more spin modelling though.

The FM damage modelling and damage graphics are IMO bar none. Your spit doesn't perform as well with a shot up aileron or flap, but if you're lucky you can still stay in the fight and down that pesky 109. Missing flight surfaces or becoming a flaming torch is a different story, just as in real life..

Hopefully we can get those ace Focke-Wulf pilots tuned down a bit. Didn't think they had laser targeting for a 1200 ft. range snap shot in WW2. Usually I can out maneouver them in a spit or p51 if I see them first..but they seem a little too accurate, particularly compared with trying to fly that plane.

The FW kind of reminds me of a F-16 where the FM is inherently unstable in order to stretch the flight envelope. Unfortunately in Jane's, the pilot is the computer flight control system and constant attention is needed to keep it stable. That thing has a very small flight envelope, easy to stall and spin, but it's not suprising that it can out-perform any other plane in WW2F with a capable pilot and take those crazy snap shots and change it's nose position on a dime. Don't know if this is the case with the real plane but wouldn't be suprised with those short stubby wings and large flight control surfaces.

So all in all, I just think minor changes are needed in the flight modelling such as more spin characteristics, but each plane is already unique in it's FM. Whether they're accurate, it can only be verified by comparing them to the actual numbers. I guess we have a chance now to do that and modify the FM's. It can only get better.

I'd personally like to see the addition of X-wind effects, but there's most likely no hook in the code for that.

-SHOGUN

If you're reading this thread, can you try taking the P-38 up for a spin sometime, with torque effects enabled and flight model at 5/Wicked. Then in straight and level flight, firewall the throttle, leave it on full until the plane seems to be at max speed and then chop the throttle back to idle. Does the nose of the plane sway left and right when you do so, or does the nose surge the way it does in a car when you gun the accelerator?

Thanks for the feedback