I've been away from DCS for a while, and have slowly been getting back into it again. I have most of the moduals, but i'm thinking about picking up the L-39 for something different. I loved the one in FSX way back (forgot the developers name). I cant find any reviews online and there are not many posts about it. Is it good? how does it fly?


Rob

I like the l-39 a lot. It's under powered and bearly armed but it is very enjoyable to fly. It has replaced the p-51 as my go to "cruisin" aircraft that I jump into when I don't really feel like combat. Of coarse the ZA version will be along soon without any extra charge. Though I have only used the muti seat feature a couple time(which is only partially implemented ATM) I still think the possibilities of this are going to be awesome. You can tell ED put a lot of attention to details in order to replicate the L-39 as closely as possible.

The only drawback I could think of is as lightly armed trainer its role in combat is very limited, nothing but a direct hit from the rocket or bombs can stop an APC. To me just the general flying from NDB to NDB in IMC is worth the price of admission, and it will only get better with the ZA.

Edit: sorry this is not a very indepth technical review, hope it helps

It feels good, so far. I'll have to break out my L-39 POH I got from an owner and do some more indepth comparisons.

Very solid module, almost everything works, you can fly it from both working cockpits, PFM... you can land as smooth as you want and feel the plane very very well (specially with a FFB stick).

Pretty nice in multiplayer also with the "passenger" mode but you can also touch buttons in the back seat while the other is flying and the funniest thing is to draw the hood onto the front pilot face when he is not expecting it

Also, you can see the gauges working in front cockpit while you are in the back cockpit... which is awesome, considering other teams are chickening out to implement dual cockpit functionality although they beat their chests that trainers are the best thing to do as their first modules... for learning blah blah...

There are some bugs but not game killers. Like the gear lever is not synch in multiseat... the back one is in neutral and better leave it that way otherwise raising the gear from back seat will lower it in front.

It's also replaced other planes as my go-to cruising around plane, and I've been thoroughly enjoying the little jet. Took me a little while to figure out the parking brake though.

There was another one from LotusSim. The Captainsim was originally for FS2002 IIRC. The LotusSim one was really good - loved to fly it.

Much better than the Lotussim FSX L-39. The aircraft has professional flight model and can be flown exactly by instructions of the real-world flight manual. The feel of the aircraft is great, challenging in its own way (bit underpowered) - all the systems are properly modeled, one of the best modules currently available. Multiseat capability and great sounds only adds to it.

Bought it last night. I couldnt activate it until this afternoon due to upgrades they were doing to Starforce (thats what they said). Anyhow, its working now and took my first flight with it today. Wow! what a nice model! Better than i expected. Flies really nice and looks great too. I have a lot to learn, but so far its a real beauty!

It was the Lotus sim version I was talking about for FSX. I really liked that plane. My favorite for FSX.

I also really like the L-39. There is one at my local airport and the owner is always outside cleaning it. Never see him fly it though although he says he does every other weekend. I think he shares it with someone.

Rob

I am loving this plane. So much fun to fly.

I was going to enter this in the competition, but never did in the end....



Nate

Man that is a great shot Nate.

Think I saw some L-39 in the news today headed for the war....

Yeah Nate, that screenie is really good.

Thought that was a real photo Nate, nice work.