Author Topic: Mosquito Buffs! Your help needed! (Read 2290 times)

Dux · « **Reply #30 on:** December 28, 2006, 04:21:41 PM »

The Mosquito is awfully fun to fly, but figure on dying from the flop-spin or a pilot wound, every time.

Krusty · « **Reply #31 on:** December 28, 2006, 04:44:02 PM »

Petition to have the Mossie upgraded to AH2 standards!! Who's in?

Ball · « **Reply #32 on:** December 28, 2006, 05:23:18 PM »

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It was never a "monster"... It was a multirole plane with good qualities, but it was never one to dogfight 109s and 190s and come out on top like the spitfires and p51s and hurricanes did. It could defend itself, and it was a formidable firing platform, but hell it was no P-38.

I agree that maybe something is wrong with the CoG. But for the most part I don't think that changing it will make it any more of a killer than the 110G is right now.

It was very maneuverable, check out the footage i posted of the 1 engine rolls at low level.

It is not a fighter in the sense that the 109 or Spitfire were, but it hugely, hugely outperformed the 110. I had the pleasure of speaking to a 110 pilot who flew G-2's, he said they had trouble catching lancs without their bombload because they were so underpowered and overladen with cannon, and that the lanc could outdive them after bombs gone... Doesn't sound like AH does it?

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Petition to have the Mossie upgraded to AH2 standards!! Who's in?

Best post i have ever seen you make

Reynolds · « **Reply #33 on:** December 28, 2006, 06:23:38 PM »

Yeah, that flop spin has been murder. I have been able to recover (THANK YOU SO MUCH FURBIE) but since my habbit is to fly low, even though I recover, I am starting so low I normally hit before I can finish pulling out.

Vote 'Yes' on the petition!

mussie · « **Reply #34 on:** December 28, 2006, 11:21:21 PM »

Ball that airshow footage was brillient

bozon · « **Reply #35 on:** December 29, 2006, 02:06:50 AM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
Petition to have the Mossie upgraded to AH2 standards!! Who's in?

YES!

Reynolds · « **Reply #36 on:** December 29, 2006, 02:23:09 AM »

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YES!

See my post in the wishlist forum.

SAS_KID · « **Reply #37 on:** December 29, 2006, 03:30:15 AM »

The mossie is an underated attack plane for a 1 way trip but we need the fighter variant or at least the different variants like we have with spits.

Cuba · « **Reply #38 on:** December 29, 2006, 06:12:48 PM »

"Terror in the Starboard Seat" by Dave McIntosh. A great book written by a Canadian who flew as a navigator (thus the "starboard seat" part of the title) in a Mosquito for the RAF. I've never read a more honest and humorous book about WWII aviation.

For example, he tells of how terrified he would get when flying through ack and other ground fire, so scared that he would be unable to speak. The pilot would be asking him questiong, but he could not get his mouth to move. He describes circling German airfields at night, waiting for planes to land, shooting down a V1, and once shooting at a man, presumably German, who was resting on the balcony of a building. Of course that didn't make it into the flight report.

Interestingly, there one bombing run was a failure. I think they made three passes at the intended target, a bridge, but couldn't hit it. So, if I remember correctly, they did mostly attack and recon missions.

Guppy35 · « **Reply #39 on:** December 29, 2006, 11:49:20 PM »

The problem is in how you fly the AH Mossie. If you are going to furball in it, you'll probably be in trouble.

Great fun to up one and try and fly one of those intruder sorties. One night when I was bored of the same old same old, I upped a mossie and went the long way around on the deck. I think I was Knits at the time and the fight I went to was between Bish and Rooks.

I made my target the airfield with the bigger dar bar and caught them taking off coming in from the opposite side of the fight. I didn't last long cause I made more then one pass, but it was fun to see the panic that followed the Mossie coming up over the rise out of nowhere

Krusty · « **Reply #40 on:** December 30, 2006, 01:43:58 AM »

Can't do that with new ack levels, now

EagleDNY · « **Reply #41 on:** December 30, 2006, 11:56:25 AM »

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The problem is in how you fly the AH Mossie. If you are going to furball in it, you'll probably be in trouble.

Great fun to up one and try and fly one of those intruder sorties. One night when I was bored of the same old same old, I upped a mossie and went the long way around on the deck. I think I was Knits at the time and the fight I went to was between Bish and Rooks.

I made my target the airfield with the bigger dar bar and caught them taking off coming in from the opposite side of the fight. I didn't last long cause I made more then one pass, but it was fun to see the panic that followed the Mossie coming up over the rise out of nowhere

She's great at the intruder role where you need to get in, get something killed at a base and then maybe get away. I'll take a mossie up when we are trying to take an enemy shore base with a CV and need to get the ord or vh killed.

If you can get close enough to get your dive started, you can hold a mossie together all the way up to the end of the IAS, and get your ord off. Yes, you can shred it with too much speed, but it will stay together and maneuverable at speeds that turn you into a lawn dart in a 110. I think most folks shred them by not throttling back enough... 400 your Ok, 440 your Ok, 480 you better lay off the power cause about 485 things start peeling off.

All I (still) want for Christmas is the B model with the 4000 lb cookie.

EagleDNY
$.02

Souless · « **Reply #42 on:** December 30, 2006, 01:37:47 PM »

The Mossie is a great ride but as Dan says its about how you fly it.
Use your energy to gain angles and a quick squirt of the trigger usually seals the deal.
The C of G needs to be fixed however I find it a problem mostly at high speed maneuver.
The flame dampeners should be removed since AH does not have a nighttime anymore they seem redundant.There will be a performance increase but I disagree with Kev on this issue as to how much.

Scherf · « **Reply #43 on:** December 30, 2006, 03:40:12 PM »

What's your disagreement based on?

Not meaning to nit-pick, but if you've got a different source, I'd be interested in seeing it.

Squire · « **Reply #44 on:** December 30, 2006, 04:32:56 PM »

The 2 biggest issues with the Mossie right now are the CoG and some armor: which it carries in weight penalty of the a/c in game, but apparently gives ZERO protection to the crew. Any 30 caliber fire or heavier will pass right through the cockpit and PW or kill the crew in AH. I flew the Mossie on many sorties over at least 3 Tours in the MA, I know what im talking about. It has a "glass cockpit" despite the FB VI having armored glass, seats, and bulkheads (ahead of the pilot) in real life. I became an expert at landing a Mossie with a PW, which you have to do to fly it in game.

Im sure when its updated to AH2 they will address all of the above.

All that being said it has an ability to be used as a day fighter in the right circumstances, its fast, especially low, has a good turn, and is heavily armed. With any a/c you fly it to its strengths. Mossie is no different.