Originally posted by Mooja
I've been flying the 1D lately and they have a nasty habit of going into unrecoverable death spirals. I died four times last night to this problem. I wasn't sure what was causing it at first so I went offline and am able to reproduce it some of the time. Fly wings level between 200-300mph and snap roll to begin a split-S. As soon as your nose points toward the groud you start spinning out of control and i've never been able to recover from this. Not sure it it happens with with other hogs or not.
heh, First thing, a snap roll is when you cause one wing to stall before the other, which causes a VERY fast roll. Just rolling the plane is an aileron roll. (If you're using a snap roll, you're already asking for trouble)
You're pulling too hard on the stick, if you do that, the F4U will do what it always wants to do, spin. While a spin in a fight will put you at a big disadvantage, it's not unrecoverable.
The toughest part about flying the f4u is getting to the edge of controlled flight, without losing control of the plane. It takes a lot of practice, and a precise rudder control. If you don't have decent(as in on a joystick or pedals) rudder control, the f4u is probably a plane to skip.
It was called the ensign eliminator for a good reason.
