No offense RAM, but did it occur to ya that you pulling too hard may be the cause of the problem?
I fly the 190 almost exclusively now. I haven't ripped wings in God knows how long, it's been a period of months.
Not trying to dig in the dirt, but remember the time you said you covered an F4U with 20 mm sprites? I was online for your tirade on channel 1. I figured you would probably start a thread on the BBS about it. Came to the BBS, and sure enough there it was. I requested that you email me your film so I could post it on the web for us all to download and view and make our own judgements. You sent me the film, but you didn't want me to post it. So I didn't.
But I can tell ya this, that F4U you shot up
shouldn't have gone down in my opinion. It didn't appear to be badly enough damaged. If I would have done that kind of damage to an F4U and looked back and saw him tumbling to the ground, I would actually be
surprised.
Why did I bring up the F4U gunfilm?
Not to try to embarass you. Just to point out that there are times when we all get pissed at the game. We can't believe that this
actually happened! But if you step back and think, "How did that happen?", "Could I have prevented that from happening?" you will be better off.
In my experience in these flight simms, I have learned that every death that I suffered, probably 99% of them were MY fault. I made a bad decision somewhere along the line that led the bad guy to my six, whether engaging too many cons without enough squaddies around, to just generally being too low.
If I had my guess you were probably going faster than you thought you were and pulled the stick just a little too hard.
We've all done it buddy. No big deal.
The truly great pilots I've run into take their buttkickings, evaluate why it happened, then replane, learning their lessons without getting too emotionally involved in the process.
