[simpits-tech] IL2 Forgotten Battle

[Mark]

Hey everyone wanted to get opinions about IL2 forgotten
battles a few guys here around the airport play this game
all the time online together and tell me its much better
than the MSCombat Sims anyone have any dealings with this
sim. Hard to learn is it better? Do I need a screaming
computer? Any ideas would be helpful before I spend the
money on the game. 

Mark 
PS. After 4 month of training finally have my Instrument
Rating!! Yee ha.
Multi Engine next.. watch out! 


----- Original Message Follows -----
> On Tuesday 16 September 2003 09:21 am, you wrote:
> > > Gene, you fly R/C? Ever flown a CG Tiger? I've got a
> > > .40-size one, awesome flying plane. Not an extreme
> > > aerobat like an Extra, but a very nice happy medium
> > > between that and a trainer. Very smooth,
> "go-where-you-point-it" plane, especially with a .46 in
> it. >
> > I haven't flown seriously for at least 8 years.  I've
> > poked at it recently but nothing serious.  I got one of
> > those EPP 1/2A foamies to play with and for whatever
> reason it was impossible to fly.  Made nice crunching
> > noises when I stuffed it into the garbage can though. :)
> 
>     I'd like to try those EPP slope combat
> planes......full contact air-to-air  combat sounds like
> fun. :)
> 
> > I put a Super Tigre .46 on a Durabat once.  The thing
> > was a damn rocket. At full throttle and the dual rates
> > off, it was _still_ a twitch in the air.
> 
>     Whoa.......yes it seems like .46 engines are typically
> of the high  performance variety. Mine's a Thunder Tiger,
> has ball bearing mounted  crankshaft and the usual
> assortment of other goodies. This plane actually  used to
> have a .48 4-stroke......reasonably powerful, but quite
> mellow to fly  compared to the 2-stroke. Sounded awesome
> though, and was a wonderful match  for my Cub. Doesn't
> want to run very well now though, too bad. I guess it's 
> something with the valves but I've never got around to
> working on it. Not  that I'd know what to do anyway. :)
> 
> >  My favorite plane was a Cox Cessna 172.  I pulled the
> > landing gear off of it, gave it a better firewall and
> > threw a Black Widow .049 with a tank extender on it.  It
> > would snap roll so fast it looked like white blob.  A
> snap roll from a high speed dive put an end to it.  The
> > rubber bands let go right about the same time as the
> > firewall tore off the front end.  It landed in three
> different places.  Ahh, the good old days, eh? :) >
> > g.
> 
>     Hmmm I've pulled the landing gear off some models but
> in my case it's  usually not intentional. :) Never lost
> one from rubber band failure (is that  an official NTSB
> term?) although once my instructor was doing some high
> speed  dives with my trainer an actually lifted the wing
> off the fuselage for a few  moments and the wing moved
> back a bit. Also had the engine nearly fall off of  my
> first trainer......always use nice stout metal throttle
> control rods. :)
>     My worst crash would probably be either my first
> 4-channel trainer, which  went down inexplicably (might
> have been bad aileron servo connection, it  entered a spin
> but I still had throttle control........thought it might
> be  radio trouble but I've never had trouble with the
> radio since, could have  been interference I guess) or my
> second 4-channel trainer that my dad drove  straight into
> the ground. :O Really it was my fault, I let him get it
> too low  and far away. Wrong response when the plane was
> coming toward him, and when I  took over, instead of
> rolling the plane so it ended up with the least pitch 
> attitude, I just pulled back. Oh, and this was with the
> 46...at full  throttle. BOOM! Looked like someone set off
> a bomb in a balsa forest. :) The  folks at Thunder Tiger
> fixed the engine for free though, runs great. They  said
> it was covered under warranty. Go figure!
> 
>     -Matt Bailey
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