I just thought I would pass on a little info on our B-29 in the Aces High game. I know that it is a "perk" aircraft and a lot of people are reluctant to use it because of that, but, with a few tips, maybe I can relieve your fears about this bird!
I would recommend:
#1- Never take off from anything but a medium or large field.
#2- Always use the "auto-take off" function in your options.
#3- Load 50% fuel and 40 500lbers as your loadout. With power management, you can fly across the map and back on most of our maps.
#4- When you spawn out on the runway, the game automatically drops 50% flaps, press your "W" key and raise flaps to "0".
#5- When you push your throttles all the way forward, engage "p" for "war emergency power".
#6- Now all you have to do is set back and let the old girl do her work.
#7- The bird will break ground with about 600 feet of runway left on a medium field, (the longest runway), and about 1,000 feet left on a large field.
#8- The landing gear will raise automatically.
#9- The aircraft will then slowly accelerate to 190MPH IAS,(think that is the right figure), which is the normal climb speed in here at that weight.
#10- As soon as you reach about 2,000 feet above the ground and the auto-takeoff sign disappears, hit your forward slash bar, press "dot" key, spell speed, with out space, then press space bar and enter 175. That's the speed at which I use to climb to altitude, but is not always the "best rate of climb", as that depends on your weight and other factors.
#11- When you reach your desire altitude, lower nose to horizon, press "X" to engage autopilot and let things settle down for a few minutes.
#12- After establishing level flight and in autopilot function, consult your E6B on your "clipboard" map for what ever cruise power settings you want to use.
#13- At least 1 sector away from your target of choice, reduce your manifold pressure to 30 inches and 2400RPM. That is the power setting I have found works best for accurate bombing. Most people tend to stay full throttle and the fast speed makes it more difficult to hit your target. This aircraft is a bomber and should be flown as one.
#14- In this aircraft in here, when making a turn, be prepared for the nose to drop as you enter the turn.
#15- Always use a "standard rate of turn", of 3 degrees per second when turning for two reasons. You can make a more accurate roll out on the heading you want and #2, you won't lose your drones by turning to steep.
#16- When descending for landing, never let your Indicated Airspeed go above 300MPH IAS.
#17- Once you get about 10 miles from field of intended landing, reduce speed to 175MPH IAS by lowering your flaps to 50% after slowing to 200MPH IAS.
#18- This is the point your are going to have to use some judgement about speed control and rate of decent. I would recommend 150MPH IAS until about 1 mile from end of runway, then full down flaps and reduce speed to about 115, slowly bleeding it off to 100 as you cross the end of the runway.
#19- When you are about 10 to 15 feet above the runway, all power off, level aircraft and let it settle to runway. This thing has great brakes and is easily stopped, if you use the procedure I just out lined.
#20- Make sure, even if you run off runway a little, that you taxi back onto the concrete before ending your sortie, other wise you would get a ditch and lose all those perk points!
