Tried the "AiraCobra" and I liked it !

[Wolfram-Harms]

In a QuickMission or Carreer it might be a nice craft to try out!

(While the online servers are all full of super-aces, who know EVERYthing, and therefor more dangerous places).

 

 

 

[Haza]

 

I kissed a girl and liked it, as well.

 

Nice pics

 

Edited April 1, 2018 by Haza

[56RAF_Roblex]

I played a P-39 career until dying about a dozen missions in.   It copes well with 109s offline as it matches them for speed and turn rate but I have not tried it online as I don't think it would cope so well against humans.   The AI pilots tend to make sustained turns and are easily dodged when they are behind where humans would climb away and B&Z you and stick with you when you dodge.

[Wolfram-Harms]

36 minutes ago, 56RAF_Roblex said:

...but I have not tried it online as I don't think it would cope so well against humans.  

 

It would perhaps be okay against the average majority of pilots in the real war.
But in the online servers, most everyone is a "Ubersoldat pilot zombie" who died hundreds of times and learned from it.
That has nothing much to do with the conditions in the real war.

These hot-shots can make many kills in one sortie - which is far from being historical.

That's why I have started two CARREERs now. Feels more like the 'real thing'.

[56RAF_Roblex]

1 hour ago, Wolfram-Harms said:

It would perhaps be okay against the average majority of pilots in the real war.
But in the online servers, most everyone is a "Ubersoldat pilot zombie" who died hundreds of times and learned from it.

 

So similarly I bet you will find a human pilot who manages to get very good with the P-39 after dying many times but I do think it needs such a person.  Put one beginner in a 109-G6  and one in a P-39 and the 109 will wipe the floor with the P-39 for several weeks then the P-39 will *maybe* start to be more equal against a 109 pilot with similar experience.  I am not sure that a P-39 will ever be superior to a 109-G6 flown by a pilot of equal skill on the same energy level.   People keep saying 'Yes but if you start with more altitude than your victim it is fantastic'  but that applies to every plane with front guns.   I will still fly it again in a career though just for the fun.

Edited April 1, 2018 by 56RAF_Roblex

[Wolfram-Harms]

Indeed, Roblex. Flown with the best of combat and aircraft knowledge, the G-6 should be superior.

Still though, there may have been Cobra pilots who shot down a G-6 ?

[=FEW=Hauggy]

Having used both planes in game I can tell you that the G6  is clearly far superior because of it's engine even if the P-39 turns faster.

There's no debate in my mind.

Edited April 1, 2018 by =FEW=Hauggy

[[CPT]Crunch]

But if you had to win a map quick, by mainly destroy supply and forces on the ground............

[Wolfram-Harms]

I didn't mean to say that the AiraCobra is in any way better than any German fighter.

And I guess it would need a very good ace pilot who knows her well, to enter the hard MP servers with a Cobra.

 

I just meant to say: I liked it. In my own Carreer. Without super-ace-zombies.

Cause, there I just meet average or veteran AI - there I have a chance in a Cobra.

 

 

 

Edited April 14, 2018 by Wolfram-Harms

[Ehret]

1 hour ago, Wolfram-Harms said:

I didn't mean to say that the AiraCobra is in any way better than any German fighter.

And I guess it would need a very good ace pilot who knows her well, to enter the hard MP servers with a Cobra.

 

Why not? The P-39 can rundown any 109 or even the 190-A3 with relative ease. The A5 is hardly faster at her supercharger dip at around 3000m. The Airacobra's frame has lower drag than most opposition - it can be read in specs: P-39 at 1325hp and 109-G4 at 1480hp differ only by 1km/h on the deck.

 

IRL Pokryshkin (and his unit) refused to switch to newer La-5FN/7 and he wasn't stupid, certainly. Even in the west, the "iron dog" had been reluctantly considered of being competitive when flied within its altitude limits.