Author Topic: F6F (Read 118 times)

elstevie · « **on:** May 13, 2001, 12:57:00 PM »

Just a thoughtWeaknesses:

Slow - Recall that the Hellcat was designed to fight the Zero, one of the slowest fighters in the war. It has plenty of speed to deal with Zekes; but in the mixed environment of games often has to deal with other American planes that are much faster, like the F4U or P51 - or the Japanese Ki. The F6F is the second slowest plane in the Pacific plane set.
Compression - The F6F compresses fairly badly, but luckily has the best airbrakes available, so recovery is possible in short order. Flying outside compression keeps you at low speeds however.
Model weirdness - The F6F has a bad engine condition that can arise any time the engine is oil starved - in a spin or inverted for instance. It takes only a second or two in the AW over modeled version before the R2800 is porked and starts delivering considerably less power, which can't be fixed short of replaning.

Seeker · « **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2001, 02:51:00 AM »

How do you use(deploy) the F6 air brake?

Is it shift-C (like the P38)?

janneh · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2001, 03:22:00 AM »

Hi!
F6F is a monster!!
Although seems to be quite hard to learn.
Keeping E up it'll do just fine.
I haven't noticed any major compression problems so far, fly it like F6F, not like P-47 (one could easily confuse these two as they both are pretty ugly,hehe).
Overall interesting and rarely seen fighter.

cu up there.

MiG Eater · « **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2001, 03:15:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Seeker:
How do you use(deploy) the F6 air brake?

Is it shift-C (like the P38)?

The F6F didn't have airbrakes, at least in the dive brake configuration seen on the P-38. Pilots would extend the landing gear to keep them from accelerating too fast in a dive while dive bombing. Of course, the airplane had to be slow enough before the dive for the gear to actuate down. Some other flight sims erroneously modeled speed brakes into Corsairs and Hellcats as though they had jet fighter-style hydraulicly actuated "boards." Is this what you are expecting to see Seeker?

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J_A_B · « **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2001, 04:26:00 PM »

The info in the original post on this thread does not pertain to AH. That information was written for Air Warrior. I'm not sure why he posted it here, unless he wanted us to tell him the differences between the AH F6F and the AW one.

J_A_B