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Stealhead · 02-24-13, 09:01 PM

IL-2 Sturmovick though a very fun game/sim does accurately simulate how many of the aircraft it depicts actually flew making it a very poor way to judge what aircraft was better than the other.

For starters the way they have the BF109s set up is wrong they did have good acceleration but nothing near what they have in IL-2.IL-2 makes the Wildcat seem half way decent when it fact it was no match for any Japanese aircraft it faced.What made the Wildcat good was purely its durability and the tactical skill that its pilots employed.I could go on and on but I wont.The in game AI can do things that are not even possible to do if you are flying the same plane in the sim and things that would be impossible in a real aircraft.

To base judgement on real aircraft based on how they fly in any sim especially IL-2 sounds very amateur to put it nicely.Thanks to Il2 there are tons of people who do not know hat they are talking about that think that the BF109 was the best aircraft in WWII.If IL-2 where truly accurate you would die half the time just taking of and landing in BF109 almost as many where lost in landing and take off accidents as where to enemy action.Most other famous fighters had nasty vices the P-51 for example could bite you if you banked it certain ways it had to do with the tail surfaces and they never solved the problem you just had to avoid certain maneuvers.

The truth is that the BF109 was a fairly good design but it was hard for a pilot to get the best from it which is always a weakness the Spitfire on the other hand even a relatively inexperienced pilot could get the max performance out of a Spitfire safely and that goes a log way.I saw a TV show once where a former German ace sat in a Spitfire he was very impressed and wished that he had a Spitfire over a BF109 based on what he saw of them in combat and on what he felt from the seat.

If I was going to pick one best air to air combat aircraft from WWII it would be the Spitfire easily because it was a very easy aircraft to fly(in real life) and it took little skill for a lay pilot to fly one effectively that factor is very important because the easier it is for a pilot to fly his mount the more effective he will be in combat.

02-24-13, 09:01 PM	#213
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	IL-2 Sturmovick though a very fun game/sim does accurately simulate how many of the aircraft it depicts actually flew making it a very poor way to judge what aircraft was better than the other. For starters the way they have the BF109s set up is wrong they did have good acceleration but nothing near what they have in IL-2.IL-2 makes the Wildcat seem half way decent when it fact it was no match for any Japanese aircraft it faced.What made the Wildcat good was purely its durability and the tactical skill that its pilots employed.I could go on and on but I wont.The in game AI can do things that are not even possible to do if you are flying the same plane in the sim and things that would be impossible in a real aircraft. To base judgement on real aircraft based on how they fly in any sim especially IL-2 sounds very amateur to put it nicely.Thanks to Il2 there are tons of people who do not know hat they are talking about that think that the BF109 was the best aircraft in WWII.If IL-2 where truly accurate you would die half the time just taking of and landing in BF109 almost as many where lost in landing and take off accidents as where to enemy action.Most other famous fighters had nasty vices the P-51 for example could bite you if you banked it certain ways it had to do with the tail surfaces and they never solved the problem you just had to avoid certain maneuvers. The truth is that the BF109 was a fairly good design but it was hard for a pilot to get the best from it which is always a weakness the Spitfire on the other hand even a relatively inexperienced pilot could get the max performance out of a Spitfire safely and that goes a log way.I saw a TV show once where a former German ace sat in a Spitfire he was very impressed and wished that he had a Spitfire over a BF109 based on what he saw of them in combat and on what he felt from the seat. If I was going to pick one best air to air combat aircraft from WWII it would be the Spitfire easily because it was a very easy aircraft to fly(in real life) and it took little skill for a lay pilot to fly one effectively that factor is very important because the easier it is for a pilot to fly his mount the more effective he will be in combat. Last edited by Stealhead; 02-24-13 at 09:16 PM.