A Dangerous Aircraft!

[leonid]

 

Originally posted by milnko:
...the down side to that of course is that it means extra time that the con has to ping the wingman your tryin to clear, but when ya do get em in range.....    

This used to be a peeve of mine when flying the Yak: it required close quarters for a kill with reasonable ammo (something I never had to do with the La-5FN).  In the pre-1.04 FM this usually meant eventual death, because it meant a turnfight with an evading con, resulting in totally bled energy.  Now, in 1.04 with the lower induced drag levels a Yak can survive in such a situation.

I guess the time of Sorrow has finally arrived  

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leonid, Kompol
5 GIAP VVS-KA, Knights

"Our cause is just.  The enemy will be crushed.  Victory will be ours."

[Fariz]

Great plane. And what about la5, are there more of them in arena now? They shall be more competative now with new FM.

Fariz

[Fishu]

 

Originally posted by CavemanJ:
You get a Yak firing at you from over 500yds it's either a newbie Yak pilot, desperate to try and kill ya (maybe out of fuel), trying to break your concentration cause you're on his squadmate/countryman.

Or a try to get that last hit into the escaping enemys wing after hard pounding, so it would break up...

[leonid]

 

Originally posted by Fariz:
Great plane. And what about la5, are there more of them in arena now? They shall be more competative now with new FM.

Fariz

Good point, Fariz.  I've been thinking about this too.  The Lavochkin was my ride until the Yakovlev came, but now I only fly the La-5FN when I'm looking for bombers.  Maybe the new FM has been gracious with the La-5 too.  It certainly seems that way.

Of the two aircraft the Yakovlev has much wider performance vs altitude, a lot more.  In fact, the Yak-9U is good until nearly 24k.  The La-5FN roughly tops out at about 17k, and that's a 7k difference.  About the only place the Lavochkin may find some parity with the Yakovlev is from 5k, down.  But the one thing the La-5FN has over the Yak-9U is two ShVAKs with 200 rds each  , and for me that's a very tempting feature ... decisions, decisions  

[Vermillion]

Sifter & SeaWulfe, I don't think I would try those manuevers in 1.04  

There was a problem with the Yak in 1.03 where as it accelerated, its trim would go off, and the nose would rise, scrubbing off what speed you were gaining.

Its fixed. The Yak is now one of the fastest accelerators in the game now.  

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure

[Jerry B]

Yak pilots should love this little movie:
 http://firelight.dynip.com/PlaneStats/yak-fighter7.mov  

Enjoy!  

[Cleaner]

I flew the yak the first day it came out in 1.03 and that's all I have ever flown since. Yes the yak in 1.03 bled a little more E then the new version, but I used that to my advantage to force an overshoot or attacking plane would run out of E and Auger. With the right usage of flaps and rudder it was and still is easy to reverse the situation. Dont know why you all think the Yak just now came of age, it was always there before, you just didnt want to take the time to learn it.

Yak-9 easy to fly hard to master

[Spoons - SimHQ]

I'd never really tried the Yak, but just did some offline flying in it....you're right, that's got some nice characteristics!  Have to try that in the MA sometime soon.

(at this point, all the other Yak drivers look around and go "Damn, there go our reputations as good pilots!    ).

Thanks for the tip.

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John Sponauer
Senior Editor, SimHQ.com
jsponauer@simhq.com

[Fariz]

 

Originally posted by leonid:
But the one thing the La-5FN has over the Yak-9U is two ShVAKs with 200 rds each   , and for me that's a very tempting feature ... decisions, decisions  

I fly yak9u almost all the time h2h now, and find it extremely good plane, very capable. It lacks firepower, esp. against buffs, but this plane is a real fun.

I think that when I am back to MA I will aply for VVS. So there is a chance that we may fly in a wing one day leonid  

Fariz

[DrSoya]

 

Originally posted by Jerry B:
Yak pilots should love this little movie:
 http://firelight.dynip.com/PlaneStats/yak-fighter7.mov  

I LOVE IT!!!!  

Spassibo, tovarishch!

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DrSoya
308 (Polish) Squadron "City of Cracow" RAF
Part of the Northolt Wing (First Polish Fighter Wing)

[Sorrow[S=A]]

Hmm  

I find it amusing that PPL think you have to be close in a Yak to be dangerous. The truth is that I do 50% of my kills at 400-500 yds. The trick is that I pick my shots carefully- seperate ShVAk and 12.5 mm - they do different jobs. Dead 6 close up 20mm at low deflection kills fast. But most of my kills are with the MG. 12.5 has the range of the .50 cal but more punch at 500 yds IMHO.
ignore dead 6 shots- with ones from a low deflection high or low aspect angle these bullets rip right through the pilot and engine- they penetrate the whole plane!
My fav kill of all time was Citabria in his p-38, he went over the top with me 400 yds behind, just as he was perfectly profiled I shot a line of bullets right up his middle pilots bump. Not one miss, perfect. So lesson is- BEWARE a pilot that fires from 500 yds in a Yak. He just may know what he's doing and YOUR in trouble  

[AKDejaVu]

I have some footage of Towd dancing around in a Yak against 4 bogies.  I'd give it out except he kills me in it

He got 2 pilots before going down.

AKDejaVu

[leonid]

 

Originally posted by Fariz:
I think that when I am back to MA I will aply for VVS. So there is a chance that we may fly in a wing one day leonid  

Fariz

Moi drug,

You will always be welcome in the 5 GIAP  


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leonid, Kompol
5 GIAP VVS-KA, Knights

"Our cause is just.  The enemy will be crushed.  Victory will be ours."

[milnko]

BTW that pic on my previous post is an AH screenshot doctored up to look aged.

For a couple more YAK screenshots look here: More Pics

The 2nd Realplayer AH movie I made with my new ASUS videocard featured the YAK in action! Check it out:
Shoot to Thrill

or look here:

ASSASSINS Wallpaper & Mini-Movies

Salute & Enjoy!

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[This message has been edited by milnko (edited 09-15-2000).]

[Tailslide]

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