Never stuff yourself with Mexican food then go do spins? Doesn't bother me.





Oh, it jammed... a lot... I just kept recocking it. The hotter it got the more it jammed. I'm pretty sure one gun was firing faster than the other too by the end. One gun ran out of ammo way sooner than the other.



There's been many days that I've flown my C150 that I describe the turbulence as being in a giant paint shaker... My exact words.

I just discovered something. The inaccuracy caused by excessive shooting seems to be permanent (which sounds reasonable to me). After shooting for an extended period of time, I stopped shooting for perhaps ten minutes and then started shooting again. This time my bullets went everywhere. I was even firing on a stationary target in zoomed mode. I restarted the mission and started shooting in zoomed mode to compare, and my bullets were going more or less straight.

ROF only models the sort of jam that's caused by the bullet not firing, the sort of stoppage that's cleared by cranking the action to the next round. Permanent jams cause by bits of metal and frayed hemp ammo belts aren't modelled. I think permanent stoppages would be too frustrating for most players.

I'm not sure if the heat/accuracy effects are permanent for that mission. It would be nice to have some sort of indicator on the simple gaugue set up, just so you could get a feel for what the dynamic is.

Just had one of my machine guns permanently jam today. Not sure if it was caused by a bullet or shrapnel (I had been hit by a bullet or two), or if it was a regular jam.

Hi, Benny,

Sorry for my delayed response.

No, I'm not being "snarky" with you. If I thought you were full of #%&*$# I would use your name and come right out and say so. Although I will say I chuckled at the irony of your statement "real pilots can have their heads up their asses, too. (I do have a few hours myself.)"

Yes, I have read your posts. In fairness I've just gone back and re-read them. Several times you proclaimed your inarticulation ("argh, I can't explain what I'm trying to say"), an opinion with which I agree.

Yes, I fly around with the default zoom level. You go on and on about "real" F.o.V. but you push an "E" button to start an engine? There are a zillion things in RoF that aren't depicted accurately; why are you so worried about F.o.V. and zooming? Due to your confessed inarticulation I am still unsure. Regardless, it appears you are overthinking and making things far more difficult than they need to be. Just adapt and overcome:

1. Do some homework and study airplane silhouettes; you'll learn to recognize types from afar.

2. Look out of the cockpit and recognize an enemy.

3. Maneuver yourself into a position of advantage, get close, open fire.

It's easy. What else is there?







As far as never being shaken in a Cessna 152, you’ve just never encountered real turbulence. I have hundreds of hours in those things and I’ve had the hell kicked out of me countless times. They don't call them "Butt-beaters" for nothing!

Because I can't see anything in the sim nearly as well as I can see things I.R.L. If I zoom out all the way, then I can see a little bit more of my R.L. peripheral vision (though still just a fraction), but then everything gets really tiny, much smaller than they would look I.R.L. It's very frustrating. Looking through the camera in the sim is rather like looking through a cardboard tube I.R.L.

Plane visibility distances in RoF notwithstanding, this is a feature of all flight sims to some extent or other. As soon as your vision is reduced to a monitor's fov, this will occur.

Yes, I know. I said that.