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Offline Ranger45

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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #105 on: March 16, 2009, 03:15:42 PM »
That must be a screen shot from IL-2, correct?  How is it in that game?
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Offline Anaxogoras

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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #106 on: March 16, 2009, 03:23:05 PM »
I've only flown the early version with 4x7.7mm machine guns, but besides the weak armament it's a decent aircraft.  To me it compares well the 109F: a little slower but with a better turning circle.  The ailerons and elevator are responsive at high speeds, and, IIRC, the engine torques to the right!

Keep in mind I have about one hour of stick time in the Iar-80 in Il-2, trying to shoot down Il-2s in one of the "Skies of Valor" setups.
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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #107 on: March 16, 2009, 04:10:14 PM »
Cool, I wounder if any one knows how many 20mm rounds the IAR-80C carried, I can't find any specs that on that.  Is all the specs that I find say is that it had 20mm guns, but not the load out.
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« Reply #108 on: March 16, 2009, 04:36:52 PM »
I'm guessing about 250 rounds per gun.  The total firing time is a little less then 22 seconds, but unlike the FW190, the cannons aren't so close to the fuselage that they have to be synchronized with the propeller (hence a slightly faster rate of fire).  500 rounds of 20mm is a lot of fire power!  The Iar-80c would definitely not be a hangar queen.
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Offline Ranger45

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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #109 on: March 16, 2009, 05:37:34 PM »
Sounds good, where did you find this info?
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Offline Anaxogoras

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« Reply #110 on: March 16, 2009, 05:43:27 PM »
I just fired the cannons and timed the duration with a stop-watch, which was about the same as the Fw190 and C.205.  You can buy the latest version of the game with all of the expansion packs for $10, so there's really no excuse for not having it on you drive. ;)  The offline campaigns offer something very different from AH arena play, there are far more aircraft to fly (except for the 4 engine behemoths), online play is free... and boy is it purty!!!!
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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #111 on: March 21, 2009, 07:54:03 AM »
Quote from: Anaxogoras on March 16, 2009, 03:23:05 PM
IIRC, the engine torques to the right!

Yup, notice which way the prop spins. :)




Also, here's a photo of the cockpit of an IAR-80C, courtesy of Denes Bernad.



And no, I won't let this one die!  :noid
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Offline Ranger45

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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #112 on: March 21, 2009, 09:34:34 AM »
Good, I am with you.   :aok
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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #113 on: March 21, 2009, 10:17:20 AM »
Quote from: Anaxogoras on March 16, 2009, 05:43:27 PM
I just fired the cannons and timed the duration with a stop-watch, which was about the same as the Fw190 and C.205.  You can buy the latest version of the game with all of the expansion packs for $10, so there's really no excuse for not having it on you drive. ;)  The offline campaigns offer something very different from AH arena play, there are far more aircraft to fly (except for the 4 engine behemoths), online play is free... and boy is it purty!!!!

Yep. Too bad the snap viewing system is so bad that it must literally be designed to make people buy TrackIR though. Nice little kickback deal? Or that Oleg apparently real airplanes have constant nose bounce for no apparent reason and that hosing a 190 down with .50s was slightly less effective than urinating on the thing. But yeah, at the end of the day its worth 10 bucks, especially if you got enough machine to crank the graphics *all* the way up.
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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #114 on: March 21, 2009, 10:19:24 AM »
BnZs, I fixed the nose bounce issue with some very aggressive stick scaling and a little bit of deadband.
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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #115 on: March 21, 2009, 11:37:14 AM »
Yeah, I did that, you can get some playable stability out of it that way, but still a little squirrelly.

In contrast, I fixed my bounce problems with AHII by turning scaling completely off...
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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #116 on: March 21, 2009, 09:01:55 PM »
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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #117 on: March 21, 2009, 10:47:46 PM »
I would fly it.  :aok
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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #118 on: March 22, 2009, 12:19:16 PM »
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Re: Iar-80
« Reply #119 on: March 25, 2009, 04:54:57 PM »


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