109G6 Pilots, step in

[MjTalon]

Hello there gents! Just wanted to start up a conversation topic for my fellow Jagdfliegers about the rugged G6. How do you like it for those who fly it exclusively? What are it's favorite traits that make you keeps you climbing back into her cockpit? What are some of the things that you dislike about the airframe?

For me: I love it because it's unique. Not alot of pilots understand how good the G6 is and underestimate it greatly. Only a selected few actually sees the deadly effectiveness and capability of the G6 & I love it when i out maneuver spitfire pilots only to be shot down by my deadly MG 151 and hear em on 200 or either pm wondering how i pulled it off, it makes my day. 

The traits i adore about the G6 are it's looks ( has some of the best 109 skins in the game and it's dam sexy  .
Firepower which makes the 109 very versitile ( Has the ability to carry Gondolas for pesky bombers, able to carry the deadly Wgr Air to Air rockets for tight bomber formations, and the ability to carry a 250KG bomb for ground attack. )
It's rugged airframe ( debatable but I've been on the receiving end of cannon shells and still remained flying ), and it's vertical performance compared with other non german aircraft.

What i dislike about the plane is simple...It doesn't have it's MK108 30mm Hub cannon that it was nerfed from.  Reason why? Hmm, apparently HTC claims we have an earlier 109G6 that wasn't equiped with it, but us here in the Mighty 11th has done some research and we can actually prove that to be false, but that's another topic. 

How about you fellers? Why do YOU fly the 109G6 or any 109 for that matter. 

Here is a 109 clip from IL2 for the hearty    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G60fP6EPZIo&feature=related

[Anaxogoras]

Hello there gents! Just wanted to start up a conversation topic for my fellow Jagdfliegers about the rugged G6. How do you like it for those who fly it exclusively?

Blitzin, I don't know of anyone who flies the 109G-6 exclusively, not even you.

Anyway, I fly it more than most, and to me it's a lot like flying a typical mid-war aircraft in the late war arena:  You're slower, out-gunned, and sometimes singled out because you're in something different. But I find it a fun challenge, and the inability to out-run or out-turn a lot of the opposition forces you to use your head.  That's now how most of the arena gets its kills.  They find a performance trait to exploit and use that to beat their opponent into the ground.  In the 109G-6, however, if you kill a Spitfire XVI (which has you beat in every category on paper), it was all pilot.

[USCH]

I love the 109's but as new people come into the squad i always tell them the G6 is the turd of the group...
I wish it wasnt the case but It is too slow for the MA and turns for junk... but mabe thats why we like it (when you kill in a G6 its almost all pilot)

[MjTalon]

That's the good thing about the G6. It forces you to draw from your personal ability and acm knowledge to get kills. Its a pilots plane that dictates whether or not you're a good stick. As gav said we are normally out classed by majority of the planes in the MA so when we do kill a plane that has us beat on paper, its our skill that got us that kill as well as knowing the plane itself.

[Yossarian]

I sometimes fly the 109G-14 and the 109K-4, and mostly for bomber killing.  However if I can't find any bombers and I still have enough fuel left I'll then go after fighters.

Mostly what I like about those two are their amazing climb rates which IMO are essential for killing buffs - I can take off just as they're bombing the field and by the time I'm co-alt they're not too far ahead of me.

Whilst the K4 owns in terms of climb rate, I just can't get used to its cannon    (any advice on this is much appreciated ), so I generally wind up flying the 109G-14 because of its firepower.  I just love it when I make a climbing pass up from beneath the bomber, rake the fuselage with cannon hits and BOOM

[BnZs]

Blitzin, I don't know of anyone who flies the 109G-6 exclusively, not even you.
But I find it a fun challenge, and the inability to out-run or out-turn a lot of the opposition forces you to use your head.  That's not how most of the arena gets its kills.  They find a performance trait to exploit and use that to beat their opponent into the ground...

You're overestimating again.

They find an opponent already engaged with 3 or on the runway to exploit.  

[Anaxogoras]

Snap!

[Motherland]

I like the G-6 for it's history. The G-6 is quite simply the most produced aircraft we have in game that is represented by a single production variant. Over 12,000 were built. This is over a third of total Bf.109 production. It is the generic 109.
On top of all of this, I really do just like the way it feels. Even though performance is not up to par with most late war aircraft, from the first time I took it up it just seems that it responds the way a 109 (well, any aircraft for that matter) should respond.
I do fly other 109's, and 190's, a lot- I particularly like the F and G-14- but the G-6 will always be my favorite.

[Saurdaukar]

Ive been trying it out on and off the past couple tours.  I do like it.

It seems more stable on the stall than the G2 and the acceleration doesnt seem that much worse.  Dive performance is better than the early models and the lack of a 30mm is harsh... but I still keep going back to the low power/weight ratio as my primary complaint.

Either way, its a fine A/C and, at the end of the day, its a 109, which makes it one of God's chariots. 

[Bosco123]

Make take on the G6 is simple, it's awsome. I fly it for the underestimate of the other pilot, which happens about 90% of the time. Most of the pilots are great, and they know all charicteristics of how it flys. I have that same capibility. I like what I like to do with it, or what I call a "one sided plane" because of its great torque. It has a stabil package, and it has deadly guns. I got it down to six shots, and the other fighter is dead. Probably even takes less.
There are two things I do not like about it:
1. It has a weak radiator and is easily shot within a fight.

2. weak Hub cannon, probably the most thing I get shot out. The MGs are sufficient, but not as good if I had the cannon.

What skins do you guys use. Me, I use (no matter what he says ) the Italian II by Bubi. He says he dosn't like that one, but it's my favorite.

[Motherland]

I think one of the big things about the Bf.109G-6 is that people overestimate the G-2's performance advantage over it and underestimate the positive effects of the MG131's (which don't appear in performance numbers but make the aircraft more balanced and of course give a boost in firepower). The G-14 is there just to give some perspective.



BTW, Bosco, I redid the weathering on 'White 1', it looks... not like crap, now. I'm going to be redoing the other one as well, it's just wrong all over

[RumbleB]

That's the good thing about the G6. It forces you to draw from your personal ability and acm knowledge to get kills. Its a pilots plane that dictates whether or not you're a good stick. As gav said we are normally out classed by majority of the planes in the MA so when we do kill a plane that has us beat on paper, its our skill that got us that kill as well as knowing the plane itself.

and when you get killed it's cheater/ringer/hoer discounted result 

[MjTalon]

and when you get killed it's cheater/ringer/hoer discounted result 

Silence brit. 

[Serenity]

(I dont have time to read the entire thread just yet, but im posting in it so I can find it again...)

What I love about the G6 is that I just seem to do better in it. I feel like I'm much more effective in a G6 than any other 109 but I cannot explain why...

[Whitten]

I usually fly the 109F-4 because it makes such a great dogfighter, especially with its competitively small turn radius. It is, in a sense, the Spitfire of Germany, but with a lot more class.

However, I do fly the G-6 from time-to-time as well, but mainly as an interceptor. The G-6 is nice because it has handling characteristic similar to that of the F-4, but it’s a lot faster and has a much better rate of climb. Additionally, it is maneuverable enough to get me out of trouble if I happen to run into other fighters; I can’t say the same about the K-4 or the G-14.