straifing in ah

[Slate]

  Remember what plane you are flying. I fly a 190 alot and getting into a p-38 and strafing you forget it won't handle as quickly then Boom. 

[Stoney]

Turn off combat trim before you go into the dive.  I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've augured on strafing runs since I started doing that.  As your speed increases in the dive, the combat trim automatically dials in nose-down trim, exacerbating the issue when you go to pull out.  Once you start your dive recovery and have achieved a positive rate of climb, you can enable combat trim again.

[EskimoJoe]

Turn off combat trim before you go into the dive.  I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've augured on strafing runs since I started doing that.  As your speed increases in the dive, the combat trim automatically dials in nose-down trim, exacerbating the issue when you go to pull out.  Once you start your dive recovery and have achieved a positive rate of climb, you can enable combat trim again.

I'll have to give that a try in my IL-2, never thought of that. Thank you Stoney <S>