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4thFG_Cap_D_Gentile
Posted

Just had a go on the Berloga server in a Yak. First time ever both SP and MP, 4 kills in 1 sortie LOL. That plane is just so far out, no wonder some people stay away from this.

No historic data on the subject nor am I an aeronautical engineer but come on it's is ridiculous. And the sling shots one can succeed with in it.

 

Developers please do something about it and make my none flying friends come back, also the ones that never bought it, yet!

 

 

 

 

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i think that's two rulebreaks? discussing FM out of the FM section and the whole thing without any data to back it up?

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216th_Lucas_From_Hell
Posted

According to recent threads, the Yak-1 is the best aircraft in game, and simultaneously a complete piece of garbage.

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What did you shoot down? Most people who complain about the Yak have 500 hours in the F-4 and 20 minutes in the Yak.

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[CPT]milopugdog
Posted

This thread, again.

But really though, I watched 3 Yaks that dove on my 110 using flaps crash into the ground. Funniest thing ever.

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II/JG17_HerrMurf
Posted

IBTL

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II./JG77_Manu*
Posted (edited)

What did you shoot down? Most people who complain about the Yak have 500 hours in the F-4 and 20 minutes in the Yak.

absolute nonsense and prejudice only. Not commenting OPs statement though

Edited by II./JG77_Manu*
1./KG4_Blackwolf
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I'm with HerrMurf,

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Jade_Monkey
Posted

Watch out guys, he shot down some bots in Berloga!

 

Ace alert!!

[CPT]milopugdog
Posted

Watch out guys, he shot down some bots in Berloga!

 

Ace alert!!

WEE WOO WEE WOO. HERE COMES THE BIAS POLICE.
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WEE WOO WEE WOO. HERE COMES THE BIAS POLICE.
 

 

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Original_Uwe
Posted

I will say that every time I fly the yak-very rare-I'm astonished by how the flaps make it easy to just yank the nose back, but damn you get slow quick.

Not worth it.

Posted

I will say that every time I fly the yak-very rare-I'm astonished by how the flaps make it easy to just yank the nose back, but damn you get slow quick.

Not worth it.

Exactly!

 

Besides: Only n00bs fly the Yak now that we have the MiG :)

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Just wondering why there is no thread about MiG flaps? Is it ok (historical) to use them  at will in combat? It's just a question, i'd like to know if the flaps system was made for combat purpose and if you guys use them in fight.

=362nd_FS=Hiromachi
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OP, didn't you know that Yak pilots are master race. But pshhh, keep it a secret. Dont spoil it to the others ...

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4thFG_Cap_D_Gentile
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Only n00bs fly the Yak

Agree!

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Agree!

 

I like the Yak. Flown Smoothly and Gently it is a wonderful Airplane. sorry for being a NOOB.

Posted (edited)

I like the Yak. Flown Smoothly and Gently it is a wonderful Airplane. sorry for being a NOOB.

No need to be sorry. I believe it's more about the trauma experienced by some players shot down by a Yak than about what the Yak can really do.

Edited by Yak9Micha
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NN_RugbyGoth
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"I have no idea about what I am saying, but I'm right and you are wrong."

Ok, devs, please do accordingly to what Jimmies_Fatley said, he obviously knows way more than what your aero engineers know about flying with flaps!

 

:dash:

 

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Original_Uwe
Posted

joachim marseille used flaps in his 109, its better when you go slow

Speed is life.

I love it when they do use them though, because I try to keep 300kph minimum in my 109 and when they pop flaps I generally get to determine the way the fight goes.

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216th_Lucas_From_Hell
Posted

It brings the biggest joy when somebody is so set in flying nose-to-tail they bust all their energy and you start flying circles around them.

Original_Uwe
Posted

It brings the biggest joy when somebody is so set in flying nose-to-tail they bust all their energy and you start flying circles around them.

Hey I'm not above admitting I get red fever from time to time lol!

216th_Lucas_From_Hell
Posted

I did that very recently, and my saving grace was having a wingman hanging a little back who sorted out the bandit. Some months ago flying the F-4 I encountered a Yak who didn't give me a single opening. Every move I made, the pilot had an answer to. While I had the energy advantage, the pilot denied any shot. I was getting frustrated and in the end decided to disengage because after 10 minutes had I made another pass sure enough I would have tried to sort things out once and for all and gotten shot down in the process. I still wonder who that was.

Posted

there is no question that the 109's outclass the Yak now. I don't know where OP got his asertation unless the 109's he was fighting were greedy and gave up the ghost trying to kill him.

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I personally consider the flaps issue resolved for now. A few month ago it was obvious, now its well balanced and acceptable IMHO.

 

In addition, using flaps with the Yak is not always a good idea as your are suddenly hanging in the middle of nowhere, with less direction control on your plane. As a result, if you escaped to the first pass of a leader, just be prepared to have the "visit" of its wingman that will be more than happy to have a slow / motionless target hanging in the air :)   

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II/JG17_HerrMurf
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Agree they seem to be sorted out now. You can still get some great angles, albeit briefly, with them but at a horrible price in E. Abuse them at your own personal peril.

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This is a cheap shot where the OP think it hurt the most. For me it does not hurt, I just get fed up. I just cannot for the sake of insanity understand why people bother to post in a site they have no interest of.

I have seen a lot of legit critiques from people that do care and want the best for the sim and its community. Things like this make those complaints less legit. 

And its bloody insult peoples intelligence

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Locked.

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Locked.

Oh really?

[CPT]milopugdog
Posted

Oh really?

And then, Mac_Messer was never heard from again.

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Original_Uwe
Posted

Lololololol!!!!

Monostripezebra
Posted (edited)

I will say that every time I fly the yak-very rare-I'm astonished by how the flaps make it easy to just yank the nose back, but damn you get slow quick.

Not worth it.

 

flappy pilot snipe, just for the fun:

 

 

 

but in all seriousness.. I´m a lot more concerned about the Mig 3. It is mostly awesomely modeled and great fun, but as soon as people find out, that with a pre-set flap of 10-15% you can cut it´s turning radius about in half without much energy loss.. then all the F2 vs Mig3 duels are basically moot. The planes are quite a good match and you can have really good duels in them with out flaps.. but with hotkeyed 10-15% flaps the mig leave so F2 in the dirt, speed perfomance wise, in slow speed handling and maneuverability...l think it is gonna be a serious imbalance in BoM-plane set only missions. Which I find kind of sad, because it will hurt online gameplay alternatives to the yakkityyak vs F4 hard and it is going to be a bit ahistoric with mig 3 easily outmaneuvering F2s on the low speed knife fights.. something that awesome plane mig 3 really didn´t do.

Edited by Dr_Zeebra
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Posted (edited)

This has to be a joke...

 

People asking for a nerf on the Mig 3 already, with no actual fact or evidence...

 

The Mig3 loses a ton of energy, it doesn't outmaneuver anything, etc, etc...

 

 

There is a name for this forum behavior....

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Monostripezebra
Posted (edited)

This has to be a joke...

 

People asking for a nerf on the Mig 3 already, with no actual fact or evidence...

 

The Mig3 looses a ton of energy, it doesn't outmaneuver anything, etc, etc...

 

 

There is a name for this forum behavior....

 

lol..

learn to read what I wrote. I´m a huge mig 3 fan and I think it is one of the best planes in the gameset, performing largely quite historic. And i take pride in my empirical flighttesting.. you can easily reproduce it.

 

with 12% flaps on a hotkey and retracting in each dive while putting it out on the top of climbs and thight turns I did outmaneuver a better fighter pilot in an F2 in the duel server and upon swapping planes it was exactly the other way around..  try it. And i talk BoM only here.. in the wider planeset, where no-one really turns with the mig 3 in a g2 it doesn´t really matter and the mig performs quite great as a high-alt fighter in it´s historic role. Nonetheless the benefit/dragcost ratio of minimal flap settings in turnfights seem extreme, so far on the mig. Ok, the flaps on 109 also extend at too high speeds and so on, but that is not that relevant in online flying as it has very little use. 

Edited by Dr_Zeebra
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Original_Uwe
Posted

Ya and trying to apply it to the good doctor is idiocy.

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Posted (edited)

I'm reading exactly what you wrote :

 you can cut it´s turning radius about in half without much energy loss

 

. Again, prove that you cut the turning radius in half, prove that the mig 3 does so by losing less energy than other fighters.

 

Funny, in your second post you don't talk about half turn and energy loss anymore. 

So you put 12% of flaps at some point and you apparently outmaneuvered a F2 ? So ???? What does that prove ??

Did he have flaps out ? What maneuver what is overall? What was the energy loss? What was the speed loss and maneuvering abilities of both planes when both on the same path with the same configuration?


And finally why does something has to be wrong with a Mig3 outmaneuvering a F2 in some circumstances??

 

 

You know the Mig 3 is actually supposed to maneuver very well, it's problem beingmostly speed at low alt especially in turn fights?? Which is definitely in BoS, enter a turn fight at low alt and you're dead meat.

 

Edited by Turban
Monostripezebra
Posted (edited)

the testflights where conducted on the duel server at low alt, around 1k.. against Vade with both of us flying both planes. Fuel was locked there serversided at 30%, so that may be an influence factor that needs further looking at especially as weight as huge influence in BoS flightmodeling affecting energy retention.  But overall it came across quite clear that setting microflaps changes everything in a dogfight for the mig 3.  That is a pretty unbiased result and I can only invite anyone to test it. You will come to a similar conclusion.

 

 

edit: at heavier weights (100%fuel) so far the effect appears to be less important/pronounced.. I need some more testing on it.

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Original_Uwe
Posted

Hey Turban lay of the commie cool-aid and stop taking it as personal.

Soviet aircraft were inferior-period.

It's only a question of how inferior they were.

7.GShAP/Silas
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Hey Turban lay of the commie cool-aid and stop taking it as personal.

Soviet aircraft were inferior-period.

It's only a question of how inferior they were.

 

 

What a load of garbage.  What brand of cool-aid are you drinking?

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