@@grimreapers your tutorials are much help indeed I saved your playlist and I go watch it every now and then. Though.. I might got an idea to deal with the ugly YT algorithm, Why not divide the content to specified channels? Like how others do make multiple channels and you could feature them on your channel as subsidiaries. Anyway it might be a bad idea, I'm no expert. Thanks again for everything you made so far and keep it up.
I have to say the WW2 sorties are far more exciting than the modern stuff, real close combat "in yer face" stuff. Good skills required too! I hope ED pump more time into this genre. Great stuff Cap
Again my comment was dumped before I could send ??? My youthfull days of the 50's were spent a few times at Hawking waiting for the WAAF Base and their Ladies to tow us up in our Slingsby gliders.Base Commander Lady also joined in towing us if they were short of pilots.She used to keep her throttle open too long so we always struggeld to get released from her tow line.The Cliff 's used to give a lot of verticle lift when circleing over them. Great representation ON DCS,I flew over Manston in 2004 in real life at 56000feet and it looks somewhat similar to here on DCS.Great vid today very exciting as always guy's.Well Done Thankyou for the memories and Be Blessed.PS.RAF people always very friendly and tolerant to us ATC members.Great part of my past life Bless them.
My father (WW2 pilot) always said no-one should be allowed to fly a powered plane until they can fly a glider. I fly gliders in real life and I totally agree with him, best way to understand flight.
Human pilot logs on, planning on a fun, relaxing dogfight against AI. Ends up head to head with the legendary CAP himself! Something to tell his grandkids one day. . . provided he lives, of course!
Great video Cap, good skills! Loved the "what happens if I pull this".. canopy jetisons... "Can I pretend that didn't happen, perhaps nobody will notice"... "probably going to have to own up to it" moment. Great dogfight with that 109
DCS (and IL-2) reallyyyyyyyyyy needs to add on the Pacific Theater. PTO maps like Midway, the Coral Sea, Leyte Gulf, Okinawa, Tarawa, and planes like the Wildcat, Hellcat, Corsair, Zero, Oscar, Frank, Val, Dauntless, Avenger, Betty, Kate etc
Corsair....2 weeks.... I want my favorite allied plane, P-40N. Not the best for sure, but such a classic. I mean hell, we need to give the i-16 something to fight against.
Actually kinda cool that you jettisoned your canopy , made for a pleasant listening experience for me :) love the sound of warbirds. as always love watching the grim reapers, wish i could actually play dcs on my pc but it is unfortunately too demanding on my rig, can only play small solo missions or just free play
I love the spitfire in real life but it just flies so twitchy with me! I don't have rudder pedals so I have that twisty thing on my joystick and I keep accidentaly twisting while rolling and it just goes all over the place i'm so inaccurate.
As much as i enjoy IL2 for my ww2 dogfights DCS is still really good shame the AI still believes its flying hornets and they are able to prop hang indefinitely. cant believe i missed out on the fun.
May I ask what the spec's are on your gaming pc? I'm just in the process of getting a new one and would really appreciate some input as to what you would recommend for a VR rig. Thank you in advance.
You have to hit them alot cause the spitfire has only ×4 30. cal machine guns on it. So you gonna have to hit a armored german fighter alot befor you knock him out unless you hit the engine or radiator.
4:28 Playing around with buttons that are not supposed to be played around with, continue to listen to the briefing as if nothing had happened. You should have edited in a Leslie Nielsen deadpan face, Cap 😂
I am curious, Cap, about the modelling of engine management. Until you reduced your rpm to 2400 you operated from take-off continuously at 3000 rpm without overheating. Is that realistic? Never having flown a Spitfire myself, you know...:)
I don't know enough about the spit to answer accurately BUT bear in mind that I A) forced the radiator flaps open for this flight and B) used a low inlet manifold pressure most of the time.
We manually opened the Radiator flaps to increase engine cooling. ('Off' setting is normal and essentially means automatic) . Normally using WEP (on a spit that is anything over 3,000 prop Rpm and > 12 boost) 5 mins is the max advised. At high speed you get significant engine cooling so can fly WEP longer , but if you slow you overheat VERY rapidly. The real spit has a toggle/wire that has to be opened to allow that much boost to be applied. Some other warbirds use water injection to achieve WEP power (e.g. P47D). Either way after use of WEP the plane would require maintenance once back on the ground.
I put a spitfire model together one time and it said that the spitfire was the only fighter to have radar equipped under the one wing. Theres a small numb under the wing. This was the radar the model said.was used durimg the battke of Britain. Does any of the spitfires have radar in DCS Or am i confusing this with the hurricane
i never knew they had a spitfire with a radar in the wing, you can see something similar with the F6F-5N which had a small radar in a little bulge in the wing
@@hasina1461 yeah it has a little box type node on the underside if the right wing. And this was used to track incoming night fighters. Very short range im sure but anything like that would give you a huge advantage at nighttime.
Question: Is there any news on more warbirds in development? I can't wait for the mosquito but is there any word on planes such as the Hurricane, the Lancaster or even DC-3's? I'm astonished that there aren't even any AI models covering these planes either.
Good question. Yesterday I took all the warbirds out into Nevada, from a cold start, just to give them full power, full RPM and WEP (if it had it - MW50 for Germans) to time each how long they actually took to conk. I left default weather temps and did nothing special to the planes (like flying with cowl wide open). To my surprise half of them were still going after 15 minutes and I gave up timing. The spit used to die quite easily, this obviously changed at some point and didn't die. The German ones used to bed warning up or they would conk out very quickly if you cold start- max power, but also this seems to be no more. The only issue I should force was to manually over rev the a8/k4 after their 15mins, which quickly killed the engine (5 second at most). I think there's a lot of work here they need to fix, because a huge part of dogfighter in ww2 birds is engine management, and it's a bit of a cheat if your opponent is flying a bird that has infinite full power with zero consequences (other than it drinks fuel quicker).
you only have to keep speed up and u can run wep untill u run out of fuel, problem is when you slow down wiht less airflow on the rads if you hang on your prop at full throttle you will blow the engine.
Depends upon which model Spit IX. DCS models the LF variant, so what you say is true (and the CW which is slightly less draggy at cost of less manoeuvrability ). The high altitude variant could walk all over a K4 above 20,000ft providing the pilot was not suckered into a low altitude fight. As always it totally depends upon the skill/experience of the pilots.
@@charlesbukowski9836 get out of her the spitfire we’re using American 150 octanes vs Germany’s 87 octanes. Germany was competing with cheap pump gas and still fast!
