For considerable amount of time I am trying to repeat those great WB 109 type reversals.
Yes, the ones you see 109s in WB do while you are engaged in low speed stallfights against them.
It worked wonderfully there. For example, a Spit XIV is behind your 109K-4, you do some barrell roll or rolling scissors defense, but once you point your nose up and Spit follows, you hit hard rudder and come down instantly at climbing Spit. It just looks amazing when performed right.
However, I have not been able to do it in AH. In G-10, at low speed and nose high attitude, I push hard right rudder and even help with ailerons, but my hammerhead is very slow and mushy. If I do it at speed too low, the plane will depart, and tremendous torque is no help either. Flaps do not seem to help all that much there.
Doing my reversal to the left is risk of losing control and spinning (as it was in WB) and then it might be wise to shut engine off. However, this is not the reversal I am looking for, power off reversal works here, but it is very slow and allows climbing opponent to get a shot on you.
Was anyone been able to do WB reversal moves in here ? What do you think it is different ?
Seems to me our 109 has more limited low speed control authority than WB one, at least in rudder department. And engine torque is far more pronounced.
In fact, I have been able to perform better slow speed reversals in AH F4U than in G-10 !
[This message has been edited by Hristo (edited 02-22-2000).]
