Forwarding Kossu's expnalation of the gents flying:
Yeah the other Ace is Hemmo Leino
About Hemmo's moves. First he was quite reluctant to test fly WBIII, and said: "I don't want to make a fool of myself in front of all these people." But after Kössi did his hop in the air and managed to ventilate P-38s and Wildcats, Hemmo accepted the challenge and strapped himself in front of the screen. After an orientation flight with some figters here and there and testing the flight characteristics of the Franz he did some coordinated turns and other manuevers. While familiarizing himself with the plane he flew quite far from the battle and I asked if he wanted to do some Viermot hunting. He said why not, and I set him up against 3 Liberators in his Franz
Hemmo started with two high speed passes against the bombers and on the third pass damaged both port engines of the leftmost B-24. "Well, now I'll just kill that straggler, and go after the rest later", was his comment. And so he did. He attacked the lone bomber and killed the already smoking engines and the buff fell to it's death.
After his first virtual kill he then climbed towards the remaining two bombers and attacked them with a good speed advantage. He went past the buffs and almost immediately pulled up for a perfect barrel. During this maneuver (He did not use the views) flying inverted he said: Hmm, the bombers should appear into my view from about there... He pulled the stick back a little and there they were, exactly where he thought they would be (Nice SA !) He did the last pass from the top shooting for the cockpit and went through the box below. He was out of ammo and so the Aces retired for coffee.
A little later I saw them in the Museum Cafe waving hands and going through their virtual fights just before I asked them what they thought of it, and got interesting answers, which also portray their different personalities.
Kössi: "Yeah, it was fun, but to fly with visual cues and gauges only is pretty difficult. In the war I never checked where the ball was or what my speedometer said. I just felt and heard what the plane was doing." A pure seat of the pants fighter pilot.
Mr. Leino was more analytical in his approach to the simulators.
Hemmo: "Many things in that simulator are very well done and the gauges seemed to work right, but what it would really need is some kind of an "artificial feel" for the stick and pedals."
(He didn't know about Force Feedback controllers)
