Manual for the IL2 (The plane, not the sim named after it)

[19//Moach]

quite awesome to see this in english and so richly illustrated - it should explain pretty much all you should know to operate the Shturmovik (in the game) and a lot of extra curiosities

 

 

won't improve your aerial marksmanship, I guess - but it's good reading for getting it off the ground (and hopefully back down again) - which is about as much training as the pilots got for it before getting hurled headlong into the fray back then, anyways

 

enjoy:

 

http://www.allworldwars.com/IL-2-Illustrated-Flight-Manual.html

Edited March 5, 2017 by 19//Moach

[curiousGamblerr]

inb4 "engine hatch safety-lock pin model isn't modeled correctly" 

 

Seriously, great find Moachmeister. Super cool to actually be able to read this, some great tidbits in there. I feel like there are plenty of translations of German manuals but for Russian planes they are a lot harder to find.

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

oh how i wish these were around for most of our planes.

 

great thanks

[Mastermariner]

Here is the instruction movie of the same

 

 

Master

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

Auto closed captions translation for that is Hilarious ..

02:55 when he checking the wing..
"No damage or childbirth"

Come now a airplane wing is not where you give birth to pilots :D

[19//Moach]

yes, I believe "childbirth" aboard it is strictly forbidden by the operating manual - it's probably not good for the plane

 

 

on another "quirk" of the sim I've noticed (maybe this is a thing on all planes, noticed most obviously on the P40) -- it seems there's a very large tendency for the engine to overcool on the ground... perhaps cooling remains too effective at non-airworthy speeds

 

the manual says not to takeoff with oil/rad temps below the ranges marked on the gauges, yet it seems in the game this is mostly unachievable, and even on hot days it'll cool down with the rads closed at idle -- the water particularly never heats up at all without putting in an amount of power that the brakes will simply not hold... this contradicts the manual, which lists warming up on the ground as part of the pre-takeoff procedure

 

these warbirds were known to boil if left sitting still, even at idle - once the engines were turning, one had to either takeoff or shut it down, else overheat would soon follow -- this never happens in the game on any of the planes, being almost impossible to overheat on the ground, even above idle with a lean mix and rads closed - I find this most unlikely to be a correct depiction of what should happen