Originally Posted By: Bokononist
This is a simple question, what is wrong with the ground handling?
Ok maybe its two questions, what is wrong with it and what are you comparing it to, ROF? IL2? Real life experience?
I am interested as I have come back to flight sims with Clod after many years, and I have no basis for comparison myself.


I am going to post a reply I made on this thread.

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3270186/1.html

The IL-2 series has always had poor ground handling dynamics. In a taildragger the centre of gravity is behind the main wheels, this makes the tail of the aircraft want to be the front of the aircraft, which is a very bad thing. A ground loop is what happens when the pilot isn't quick enough on the rudder pedals to keep the tail from swinging round while on the ground. Here are some clips of a ground loop. Rise of Flight models ground handling and ground loops far more realistically than CoD. Actually that isn't true, because CoD doesn't model them at all.

A Texan, similar vintage to the kites you are flying in CoD



LOL how many of us have done this to a Camel in RoF