P-40 Great aircraft. Thumbs up.

[seafireliv]

It`s taken a while, but the career has really encouraged me to keep at it.

 

At first this thing was a pain for conking out on me when she felt like it, on take off, in combat and even just level flight! However, after learning a little more (thanks to those excellent u-tube instructions), I find her a joy to fly.... After a while you can literally forget about her engine and fly as normal (well, with the cursory check every now and then).

 

She`s fast, so can catch up a 109 pretty easily, climbs well and dives like a rocket. Getting kills on bombers is surprisingly easy. I can sweep through a formation and hit 3 bombers as I fly through and have at least two of them down, at times nearly 3. All this on realistic settings.

 

Nice bird and the fact that she was a little more difficult to learn at the start makes it all sweeter now.

 

I may even give her a try online again... although online can be a different story...?

[GSE_schentzer]

I have had some nice sorties with this plane online. It's especially good for ground attack. It's guns also make short work of any unwary Luftwaffe adversary, with a tons of ammo to spare.

Edited June 3, 2018 by GSE_schentzer

[CanadaOne]

I had the P-40 out this morning. Always an enjoyable flight.

[bubo942]

Its a great aircraft  i hope they will make also other variants

[keeno]

One of my very faves,

 

the engine is very twitchy but after a while you can tell by the engine sound when you need to ease back on the RPM or manifold pressure. Great fire power and a lot of ammo. I think because its more difficult to handle the engine management than most planes the sense of satisfaction when you complete a mission is all the more greater.

 

Cheers

 

[seafireliv]

2 hours ago, GSE_schentzer said:

I have had some nice sorties with this plane online. It's especially good for ground attack. It's guns also make short work of any unwary Luftwaffe adversary, with a tons of ammo to spare.

She is nice for ground attack isn`t she? I dunno what it is, a stable platform? She tends to go where you want her to and pulls up good.

[Gambit21]

Glad to see some post by guys enjoying this aircraft.

 

[=362nd_FS=RoflSeal]

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She`s fast, so can catch up a 109 pretty easily, climbs well and dives like a rocket.

What?!

She's faster than the Emil only
Worst climb in the game for a fighter aircraft.
And dive is good, but the phrase dives like a rocket is odd when rockets are known for going up.

Edited June 3, 2018 by RoflSeal

[Danziger]

10 minutes ago, RoflSeal said:

What?!

She's faster than the Emil only
Worst climb in the game for a fighter aircraft.
And dive is good, but the phrase dives like a rocket is odd when rockets are known for going up.

Idk all the rockets I've been firing were going down towards the ground.

[Field-Ops]

That emergency power can catch the 109 for sure. 

[Thad]

Salutations,

A iconic plane for sure. But I am a biased American.?

[sevenless]

In no other plane you can drink your Coke as Wild Bill Kelso does:

 

 

[Poochnboo]

Fast and P40 aren't words that are often used together. I still enjoy it. Would like to see the N one day. 

[Leon_Portier]

My favourite plane for blowing up engines and all around!

Edited June 3, 2018 by Leon_Portier

[-TBC-AeroAce]

So this is where all the masochists are!!

[CrazyDuck]

Apart from chronic feeling of being utterly underpowered (be it during climb, turn or accelerating flight) in dogfights, she really is a lovely bird. Devastating ground pounder and formidable bomber destroyer. However, when I meet a well flown 109 or 190, I consider myself born a second time if I make it back to base.

[-TBC-AeroAce]

6 minutes ago, CrazyDuck said:

Apart from chronic feeling of being utterly underpowered (be it during climb, turn or accelerating flight) in dogfights, she really is a lovely bird. Devastating ground pounder and formidable bomber destroyer. However, when I meet a well flown 109 or 190, I consider myself born a second time if I make it back to base.

 

I don't get this love. It is a pig.

[Ehret]

56 minutes ago, AeroAce said:

 

I don't get this love. It is a pig.

 

So it is the Jug until you get a lot of altitude.

To engage successfully in the Kittyhawk you have to run in shallow dives or low-yoyos. Then, the P-40 will keep speed better and can out-maneuver opponents. Finally, when getting low use remaining potential energy to run away.

 

Such tactics were very effective IRL against much more agile opponents like Japanese.

[InProgress]

I was attacked once by one after i dropped my bombs so i was unaware of him, he hit my fuel and i got it leaking, but then i immediately put 100% power, closed radiator, dived and in few seconds he was out of range and could not do anything. (Fw190) I don't really find p40 a good plane, you could destroy me262 with i16 if he is unaware of you so it's nothing special. It's a really cool looking plane tho.

Edited June 4, 2018 by InProgress

[Raptorattacker]

It's somewhat outdated in it's environment but IT LOOKS ACE!!!

 

I mean, come ON....

[-TBC-AeroAce]

Nope it is Fugly!!!!

[seafireliv]

15 hours ago, RoflSeal said:

What?!

She's faster than the Emil only
Worst climb in the game for a fighter aircraft.
And dive is good, but the phrase dives like a rocket is odd when rockets are known for going up.

I thought I might get called out for that.

 

I`m used to flying the I16 almost all the time. I tend to pick one aircraft at a time and stick with it for months  (unless the career swaps me to another). I`m not a swap and change guy. So I should`ve  said, "Compared to the I16..." My bad.

 

And yes the 109 can outrun her especially if it gets a headstart, but I catch 109s far more frequently than I ever did before.

8 minutes ago, AeroAce said:

Nope it is Fugly!!!!

She`s a great looking bird. Not as pretty as the Spitfire, but still good.

 

It`s funny because she was pretty much out of date by the time of WW2.

Edited June 4, 2018 by seafireliv

[Ehret]

1 hour ago, InProgress said:

I was attacked once by one after i dropped my bombs so i was unaware of him, he hit my fuel and i got it leaking, but then i immediately put 100% power, closed radiator, dived and in few seconds he was out of range and could not do anything. (Fw190) I don't really find p40 a good plane, you could destroy me262 with i16 if he is unaware of you so it's nothing special. It's a really cool looking plane tho.

 

So you were in the A-5 and got ambushed at co-energy. Actually, the pilot of the P-40 done more than you could to him - damaged your plane and forced you to flee.

[InProgress]

1 hour ago, Ehret said:

So you were in the A-5 and got ambushed at co-energy. Actually, the pilot of the P-40 done more than you could to him - damaged your plane and forced you to flee.

I dropped my bombs and was going to base anyway, so all he did was small fuel leak. If i did not have 15fps on kuban map i would turn back and fight him. Still, i did my task, he did not stop me before bombs were dropped and did not destroy me. So i win

[Ehret]

6 minutes ago, InProgress said:

I dropped my bombs and was going to base anyway, so all he did was small fuel leak. If i did not have 15fps on kuban map i would turn back and fight him. Still, i did my task, he did not stop me before bombs were dropped and did not destroy me. So i win

 

Fair enough.

[ShamrockOneFive]

Seafire, you got me to get back to my P-40 Stalingrad Career and I flew an absolutely awesome mission last night as a result.

 

Six P-40s sent to perform a strike against a vehicle column went bad early on. We crossed paths with Hs129s and Bf109s of which the Bf109s went after us. Some of the P-40s were shot down and I ended up in a low altitude fight against several of them. I got two Bf109s in a head on, sucked into a low altitude turn fight with another, got a maneuver kill during a low altitude speed run, took a few bullets, and then ended up in a kind of joust with a Bf109 at 500 feet. After three passes I got the Bf109 in the wing snapping it off (he also hit me in the engine).

 

Never made it to the convoy although my flight lead and a wingman did and they destroyed the convoy. So that went well!

 

Managed to limp back home across the Volga and did a landing in some of the worst crosswinds I've had in the game.

 

And it was all awesome. The P-40 isn't the best fighter in the game by any means but damn can it be fun!

Edited June 4, 2018 by ShamrockOneFive

[Thad]

Salutations,

 

In the end.... the purpose of playing this or any simulation is to have fun and enjoy the experience in any chose aircraft or armored vehicle. ?

[CrazyDuck]

5 hours ago, AeroAce said:

 

I don't get this love. It is a pig.

 

Is indeed - as long as the only type of misson you fly is dogfighting on action oriented servers.

 

Once you try a more realistic setup, like coop ground pounding, you'll realize you can take out half of wehrmacht soft targets with awesome firepower and ammo duration. Or when having Yaks or Spits as high cover to protect you from hungry LW fighters, you are a nightmare for blue bombers, or even 110s. 

[Poochnboo]

On 6/4/2018 at 9:13 AM, Thad said:

n the end.... the purpose of playing this or any simulation is to have fun and enjoy the experience in any chose aircraft or armored vehicle. ?

Had fun with one last night on The Liberty server. Why is that the only one that ever has anyone on it? I took a bomb with me and went out looking for a target. Found one, a bridge. missed it. I did get water on it, though!

Anyway, i climb up to altitude and I'm flying around and there's a bogie. Getting closer to identify it and it's a bandit...and a 190. He doesn't see me and I start to trail him. But finally he glances back, and ..uh oh! Fast reversal and he's coming at me. I fire a quick head on shot at him, and....yeah, I missed. And we start going all over the sky. At one point I'm hit. But the tough old Warhawk doesn't even seem to be hurt. But we're going around and I was eventually going to lose that, but a Yak comes out of nowhere and nails him. Trailing a long, thick, smoke trail he goes in.

"Who just saved my ass?" I texted. No answer. The Yak just flies off.

Well, okay, I seem to be fine. That hit would have knocked a Russian bird out of the sky but here I was in one piece. And my engine is running smoothly so I just continued my patrol until i decided to head home and put 'er down. 

I suck as you can tell. Missed my target with the bomb and I didn't get a kill. But it was a victory for me just simply surviving a fight with an FW190 in a P-40.

[Jade_Monkey]

Even after the big FM revision a few patches back I still suck at flying this one. 

[MAJ_stug41]

Shameless Eye of the Flying Tiger plug -

 

 

 

Tough plane to do well in beyond early war, but I've had a lot of fun in it!

[Gambit21]

One of the meanest looking aircraft ever...love it!

[-TBC-AeroAce]

On 6/4/2018 at 2:15 PM, CrazyDuck said:

 

Is indeed - as long as the only type of misson you fly is dogfighting on action oriented servers.

 

Once you try a more realistic setup, like coop ground pounding, you'll realize you can take out half of wehrmacht soft targets with awesome firepower and ammo duration. Or when having Yaks or Spits as high cover to protect you from hungry LW fighters, you are a nightmare for blue bombers, or even 110s. 

 

I fly all the reals and yeah it is still a pig, sorry!! Yeah maybe you can dive on something and yeah you can get some ground targets but you will have to spend 10 years to climb again or just not have the speed to get out of an area.

[Poochnboo]

24 minutes ago, AeroAce said:

I fly all the reals and yeah it is still a pig, sorry!! Yeah maybe you can dive on something and yeah you can get some ground targets but you will have to spend 10 years to climb again or just not have the speed to get out of an area.

And yet, American pilots racked up a decent score with it in both China and the South Pacific. Against airplanes that were a whole lot more nimble. There, however, the Warhawk often had a bit of a speed advantage. Here, of course, we have niether speed, nor maneuverability advantages over the German fighters. I've seen guys doing well flying in two's and three's. Alone, forget it. I, admitedly, only survived that fight I mentioned because somebody came and saved my bacon. 

[-TBC-AeroAce]

4 minutes ago, Poochnboo said:

And yet, American pilots racked up a decent score with it in both China and the South Pacific. Against airplanes that were a whole lot more nimble. There, however, the Warhawk often had a bit of a speed advantage. Here, of course, we have niether speed, nor maneuverability advantages over the German fighters. I've seen guys doing well flying in two's and three's. Alone, forget it. I, admitedly, only survived that fight I mentioned because somebody came and saved my bacon. 

I know the history and yes any plane can be flown well......The point is them guys must have done the same thing! Hit run and climb away for the next hour. 

 

Go look up Hope, Faith and Charity and then tell me that the Gladiator was an ok plane for the time just because they had some success

Edited June 6, 2018 by AeroAce

[6./ZG26_Gielow]

OP-40 is the correct designation. 

 

It is the best allied fighter on this game for sure. Real killer with bad pilots.

[Legioneod]

It's limited by game mechanics but if you can manage to bounce and hit your target it can do tons of damage. The .50s are just excellent, best armermant in the game imo, I'd take 50s over cannons any day.

 

The main thing I don't like about the P-40 (besides the game limitations) is that it's ugly, I'd much prefer an earlier model P-40, they look much better imo.

Edited June 7, 2018 by Legioneod

[=EXPEND=Dendro]

Currently #1 on WOL and he flies a ......

 

[Kirk]

I appreciate the P-40E-1 too!

Talking about it's shape, my all time favorite has always been the early K model with it's rounded vertical fin and short tail. 

[JimmySolarium_VR]

Always wondered, what was in the trunk behind the pilot .. ?