Any ROFers here feel the same?

[wtornado]

I was flying IL-2 series from the very beginning and what you are saying reminded me of when I first got into the

ME-262 in Forgotten battles I kept on over shooting all the piston fighters and could not get a bead on anything.

 

The 262 was crazy in a dive and had god like fire power.When you mentioned light speed those old memories all came back.

 

The engines would catch fire after start up if you pushed too hard on take-off it was so funny online.

 

That was many many moons ago.

Edited August 27, 2015 by WTornado

[indiaciki]

people should use their enery well and use engine power as a bonus- like a Hawk:

 

Edited August 27, 2015 by indiaciki

[unreasonable]

Mostly flying RoF, just checking in to BoS from time to time to see if there is much for a SPer to do ...

 

The closing speeds of 1,000kph make BoS a problem for an older flyer: the 300 kph merge of RoF I can just about cope with! The feeling of flight is more pronounced as you have such little excess energy. Plus I enjoy the RPG element of a RoF career that has been stripped out of BoS.

 

While recognizing the improvements in the engine, graphics etc in BoS, IMHO RoF is a much better game, indeed one of my favourite games of all time, for all it's faults.

[Cat-26Ashby-26]

Hi,

Having flown many flight sims over the past decade or so, ROF is one of the best that I have encountered. BOS in my view was similar to the other sims in the IL2 series. What surprises me about BOS most is that the controls seem much more sensitive that anything I have previously flown. I still have problems with taxying and bouncy landings. Gunnery is also challenging. 

Regards

[indiaciki]

bouncing has to do with too much speed. mostly vertical but also airspeed and flaring too high. 

[KaC_Furias]

My way was the opposite: I started in the war ii simulators and then went to the rof.

 

So my challenge was learning the horizontal maneuvers as it was already conditioning the vertical maneuvers. My first sortie online in rof lost the wings of my albatross after a split-s to attack a spad flying below. It was funny and wasnt funny. Fortunately it's all virtual. In real life it would have been my first and last mistake.

[indiaciki]

If you first flew WWII planes I think you would enjoy flying the SPAD the SE5 or the D.VII. They are faster and can dive without structural damage. The SPAD is a beast. You can't outdive or outclimb her.

[Fazer_Beam]

Well, I just made my first "flight" in BOS, on a LaGG in quick flight, no air enemy, normal setting.

I started from parking and somewhat managed to reach the runaway and took off before the end of the concrete.

I hit a truck at the third pass, and on landing... totally forgot to extend the landing gear! Doh. In ROF, wheels are fixed on...

Not too bad for first try.

Need (much) more time to adapt, but I think biggest trouble, for me, will be landing. I'm not a "hardcore" simmer, fly mostly ROF, tried CLoD, but didn't like the feel, so little experience in the basics.

[ST_ami7b5]

When I go to RoF after flying some BoS I always press my throttle lever hard to get more speed.

And loosing my wings in dives until I get used again to how fragile those planes are ...

[wtornado]

Trying ROF I have never flown planes so slow or with no fire power

like this in my career as a flight simmer.

 

At least it was free to try.

[SharpeXB]

Trying ROF I have never flown planes so slow or with no fire power

like this in my career as a flight simmer.

 

That's what makes RoF so much fun. :-D

[ST_ami7b5]

Still I love RoF

[indiaciki]

I really don't like to sound smartass like. But try doing whatever you'd like to do in BOS, LaGG, 109, Yak in a ROF RE.8. or any two seater. It make a difference. Same with landings. idle no flaps. That was basic training for WWII pilots at some poin't you just figure how energy works. Lots of WWII pilots earned their wings flying gliders.

Edited August 30, 2015 by indiaciki

[II./JG53Lutzow_z06z33]

This made me think of a story I read in Adolf Galland's book. His wing commander in France was a WW1 ace to quote Galland "He did his best to keep up with the new planes great speed" He was speaking of the Bf-109E

Edited September 1, 2015 by OCTz06z33