What aircraft HAVENT you flown

[R33GZ]

Just occurred to me the other day, that there are still a 'few' aircraft I haven't flown yet from the GB modules i own... some of them will make you ask, why the hell not!? 

 

I have yet to fly the, P-51 D, P-47 D28, Bf109 K4, Bf109 G14, Fw 190 A8 and Fw 190 D9 all from BoBp.

 

The 109 E7, 109 F2, Ju 87 D3 and IL2 mod41 / mod42 and Pe2 ser. 35

 

I haven't being flying this anywhere near as long as most of you, although I do still log about 4-6hrs per week... but it seems I've still got loads of conversion training to look forward to, as well as another whole module with extra aircraft.

 

In most cases, I have just got really involved with a particular aircraft - the P-38 J25 for example... I love that thing ?

 

Am I the only one with a big list of unexplored warbirds still waiting for me?

Edited March 22, 2023 by R33GZ

[Ghost666]

Have all content. Let's see, what haven't I flown? Ah, yes, the Yak-9 and Yak-9T. but I should get to them soon. 

[BlitzPig_EL]

Flown and driven everything in every module.

[=621=Samikatz]

Uhhh, I don't think I've touched the He-111H-16? I've definitely used the H-6 but generally level bombing is not for me and there's not really much between the two

 

I think it would be a strange choice to not at least look at the airplanes you've bought? Pay for the whole seat use the whole seat

[ShamrockOneFive]

Every single one!

[I./JG52_Woutwocampe]

The IAR80

[Charon]

Most of the flying circus planes and the Arado 234 (unless one burning abortive take-off counts).

 

There are a number of others I estimate I have less than an hour in: the Yak 1b, the Yak 9T, the Spitfire XIV, the Me 410, the C-47. The Spitfires and Yaks because they just don't speak to me, and the Me 410 and Ar 234 because I just haven't sat down and done all the bindings for.

 

I do a co-op mission in a new plane every Tuesday with some JG3 folks, so eventually I'll cover them all.

 

Edit: I've now flown the Arado.

Edited March 24, 2023 by I./JG3_Charon

[R33GZ]

5 hours ago, I./JG52_Woutwocampe said:

The IAR80

I was thinking about that and the Hurricane MkII for BoM / BoS ?

[Art-J]

Haven't flown anything Russian and anything German except for 109K-4, 190A-8 and 190D-9 just to compare them to DCS. But I admit I'm a guy who doesn't purchase or play content I'm just not interested in, so I don't plan to try them out in the future anyway.

[Hanu]

I always do a familiarization flight with new content. Ie start, takeoff, some manouvers and landing.

Except Gotha... I was a bit hurry then, so after 3 unsuccessful tries I had to move on and try it in a later time.

[gydaveb]

I haven't flown most of the Flying Circus plane-set. I'm waiting for the career mode.

[S10JlAbraxis]

I own and have flown all the aircraft.  I think it is interesting to compare flight modles, performance , weapons, sounds and the look of the aircraft.  The aircraft I fly the most are; P51, Sprifire, BF109, FW190, P38, Yak, Tempest and Typhoon.  I prefer high performance fighters with reasonable turn characteristics.  I do not care about the nationality I just fly the planes I like best.  I also enjoy trying fighters with unusual or difficult attributes where I am outclassed for a challenge but spend less time with these.  Once the career mode is out for Flying Circus I will spend a fair amount of time with these fighters (WW1 dogfighting is a lot of fun although WW2 is my favorite).  I am not all that interested in level bombers allthough I do fly ground pounders now and then. 

[percydanvers]

I think I've skipped over most Flying Circus aircraft. I bought them to support IL-2, and hoping that I might get into it, but I just can't quite get into WWI aviation. Maybe once career mode comes along I'll do a campaign on easy to ease into them. 

Edited March 23, 2023 by percydanvers

[vipe155]

Everything Russian.  No interest personally.

[gydaveb]

1 hour ago, vipe155 said:

Everything Russian.  No interest personally.

 

Ditto to that. I've actually tried to fly a few of the russian aircraft as I'm an aviation buff and figured maybe I'd get into them, but I always end up feeling like they are soul-less, rickety hunks of **** held together by wood epoxy, powered by lawnmower engines, with the equivalent of .22 rifles taped to their noses.

 

[jollyjack]

4 hours ago, gydaveb said:

I haven't flown most of the Flying Circus plane-set. I'm waiting for the career mode.

 

What a shame ? ... You must always be in some hurry then?

[356thFS_Melonfish]

Oddly the 410, 88c, and the 234, also whichever variant of 109 shipped with normandy, and I've barely flown the mossie. Entirely unlike me as I love the 110 and 88, and the mossie is one of my favourite planes.

I've just been having a riot with the Jugs and tiffy zooming across the channel.

[R33GZ]

3 hours ago, Melonfish said:

Oddly the 410, 88c, and the 234, also whichever variant of 109 shipped with normandy, and I've barely flown the mossie. Entirely unlike me as I love the 110 and 88, and the mossie is one of my favourite planes.

I've just been having a riot with the Jugs and tiffy zooming across the channel.

I'm kinda the same with the P-40 I live that bird, even though it's got an odd engine timer, I do like flying it and tend to do reasonably well in careers with it. Beggar for punishment I guess ?

 

[Lusekofte]

Non 109 except for the E7 

reluctantly flown some fw190 

but not all and so long ago I can’t remember witch. 
Yak 1 but have flown 7 and 9 

 

[Jaegermeister]

I have still not gotten to the Gotha G.V and the Handley Page 0-400 yet, but I will get to spend the next 3 days in one of them, and then the following 3 days in the other. Besides that I believe I have flown every aircraft and driven every vehicle that has been made available in the sim.

[JG4_Moltke1871]

3 hours ago, Jaegermeister said:

I have still not gotten to the Gotha G.V and the Handley Page 0-400 yet, but I will get to spend the next 3 days in one of them, and then the following 3 days in the other. Besides that I believe I have flown every aircraft and driven every vehicle that has been made available in the sim.

Enjoy these big wooden war machines ?

How about some scripted campaigns about? ?

[Noisemaker]

I have yet to sit in an Axis aircraft.

[Tendo]

F-86, MIG-15, Zero

[ITAF_Rani]

2 hours ago, Noisemaker said:

I have yet to sit in an Axis aircraft.

 

 

[Jaws2002]

I don't think I bought the Sopwith Snipe.  I bought and flown or drove everything else.  Most of them a re interesting to fly, but some are more fun than others.

  Things that I love and stand out. FW-190 A3, D9, A-8. Bf-109F4, G6. Yak-9T, Hurricane, Nieuport 28, Arado, BF-410, Ju88, Ju-88C6, LA-5FN, Gotha bomber, P-51B.

  Planes that I thought I would fly more often, but are not too much fun: P-47 and P-40. It's sad really because in the last Il-2 and DCS I really enjoyed the P-47.

Edited March 24, 2023 by Jaws2002

[Jaegermeister]

12 hours ago, JG4_Moltke1871 said:

Enjoy these big wooden war machines ?

How about some scripted campaigns about? ?

 

I have been doing a little research and unfortunately what I am finding is that except for certain isolated situations, the bigger bombers in WWI were either not located on the current maps, or their targets were not. The Germans mostly used the Gothas to fly from Belgium and Germany over the channel to England, and the British used the Handley Pages to fly into Germany going after strategic industrial targets. 

[CUJO_1970]

I’ve yet to fly the FW190A-9.

[I./JG52_Woutwocampe]

1 hour ago, CUJO_1970 said:

I’ve yet to fly the FW190A-9.

 

For me its the Yak 3 and La-7. I should try them soon, I've heard they were great fighters, the cream of the crop from the VVS, surely to be featured prominently in an installment of a sim called IL2!

[jollyjack]

On 3/24/2023 at 10:35 AM, Noisemaker said:

I have yet to sit in an Axis aircraft.

 

so you are the only goodguy here?

[Noisemaker]

2 hours ago, jollyjack said:

 

so you are the only goodguy here?

I guess if you discount the drinking, womanizing, gambling and the theft and embezzlement to pay for it all, then sure, I guess I'm a good guy. 

[Guest deleted@83466]

I’ve not seen most of the Normandy airplanes.  I guess that things like the Arado, Mosquito, JU-88C, P-51B, and whatever else.  I did fly the Spit 14 though.  

[Bilbo_Baggins]

Haven't flown the WW1 machines and I'm pretty interested to give them a spin. I don't have FC and it's the only module I'm missing. I never played ROF so I really have no idea how those biplanes handle. 

[jollyjack]

if the sale is on get RoF, it's worth it. FC looks & feels better, but at a price ...

[Avimimus]

On 3/22/2023 at 5:34 PM, R33GZ said:

I haven't being flying this anywhere near as long as most of you, although I do still log about 4-6hrs per week... but it seems I've still got loads of conversion training to look forward to, as well as another whole module with extra aircraft.

 

Ah, you see the difference is that you are (reasonably and responsibly and realistically) doing conversion training. I load up aircraft in the quick mission generator and try to see what happens when I spin them!

 

On 3/26/2023 at 6:35 AM, Bilbo_Baggins said:

Haven't flown the WW1 machines and I'm pretty interested to give them a spin. I don't have FC and it's the only module I'm missing. I never played ROF so I really have no idea how those biplanes handle. 

 

Don't spin these ? Many of them are almost non-recoverable in a spin.

 

I'm being quite inconsistent today ?

 

 

  

On 3/26/2023 at 7:28 AM, jollyjack said:

if the sale is on get RoF, it's worth it. FC looks & feels better, but at a price ...

 

If you are going to upgrade anyway though...

 

 

  

On 3/24/2023 at 3:32 PM, Jaegermeister said:

I have been doing a little research and unfortunately what I am finding is that except for certain isolated situations, the bigger bombers in WWI were either not located on the current maps, or their targets were not. The Germans mostly used the Gothas to fly from Belgium and Germany over the channel to England, and the British used the Handley Pages to fly into Germany going after strategic industrial targets. 

 

I think the AEG G.IV might've been used more extensively for night bombing near the front? It was as fast - as fast as a two seater (165 km/h) - but was shorter ranged. I always thought this might be a good addition - there is an almost perfectly preserved example in Ottawa - the AEG G.IVg subvariant was slower but carried a much larger bombload... with the only major change being an increased wingspan - so two aircraft for the price of one.

 

The Gothas were used almost entirely for long-range strategic bombing. Friedrichshafen G.III was more numerous and used against France rather than Britain - so I'd also recommend looking up Friedrichshafen G.III units (as well as the AEG G.IV).

[PatrickAWlson]

Most of them, or at best half.  The truth is I am not very talented.  I can get by in SP once I learn a plane but I can't just jump into the cockpit and take the thing for a ride without crashing on takeoff, burning up the engines, or hopelessly bungling engine management.  Since I like careers and it takes me awhile to learn how to fly a plane, I tend to stick with what I'm flying for awhile as opposed too hopping from plane to plane.

Edited March 28, 2023 by PatrickAWlson

[JG7_X-Man]

I only ride German!

[Jaws2002]

On 3/23/2023 at 8:29 AM, Hanu said:

I always do a familiarization flight with new content. Ie start, takeoff, some manouvers and landing.

Except Gotha... I was a bit hurry then, so after 3 unsuccessful tries I had to move on and try it in a later time.

 

 

 The Gotha was always good to me, even in the old  ROF.  Lots of people had issues to land it. The trick is not to slow down too much, even for the landing.

You don't land the Gotha, you fly it down at almost full throttle, only cut the power after it settled into a fast drive, on the ground.

 

 Put some nice clouds in the mission and then flying he Gotha among the clouds is like sailing a submarine among icebergs. ?

Edited March 28, 2023 by Jaws2002

[LuftManu]

All of them! Catch them all!

[AEthelraedUnraed]

On 3/24/2023 at 8:32 PM, Jaegermeister said:

I have been doing a little research and unfortunately what I am finding is that except for certain isolated situations, the bigger bombers in WWI were either not located on the current maps, or their targets were not. The Germans mostly used the Gothas to fly from Belgium and Germany over the channel to England, and the British used the Handley Pages to fly into Germany going after strategic industrial targets. 

It is my understanding that both the Gotha and the HP were at various times used extensively to bomb targets relatively close to the front, or even fortifications at the front itself.

 

I cannot find my references, but a quick wikipedia search returns at least the following for the Gotha:

"By the middle of March, the Gotha squadron was once again ready to attack England but had to support the German spring offensive which started on 21 March, being used to bomb Calais, Dunkirk, Boulogne and troop concentrations and railways." My guess is that "troop concentrations and railways" were closer to the front lines than the mentioned cities, all of which are only just beyond the map.

"The last and largest aeroplane raid of the war took place on the night of 19 May 1918, when 38 Gothas and 3 Giants took off against London." Implying that after mid May, the Gothas went back to attacking targets in France similar to those mentioned above.

 

And for the HP:

"[O]n the night of 9/10 October, 97, 215 and 216 Squadrons bombed Metz[...]. Operations were reduced during the last days of the war by weather but several aerodromes were attacked, particularly that at Morhange." Morhange and Metz are on the map.

"No. 207 Squadron RAF [after re-equipping with the HP O/400 returned] to France in July as part of No. 54 Wing and continu[ed] to fly night raids against railway targets."

 

Although both aircraft were used to bomb far-away strategic targets, I would say there are enough targets closer to home to make for a campaign that's both interesting and historical . The obvious problem though is that references are hard to come by...

[Feldgrun]

I’ve flown everything I own, but some far more than others. I have enough experience to have favorites.