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Please pardon the innacuracy but, I didn't have any way to remove the outboard cannons since this particular aircraft was actually built by Arado without them to lighten the structure.

The upper wing camouflage has an interesting feature in that the left/right ailerons are each done in opposite light/dark shades. This was an attempt to fool the enemy into thinking that the aircraft was about to roll counter clockwise. Based on Bühligen's 40 victories over Tunisia I'm not sure he let himself get into a defensive position very often where he might have needed the extra little deception to escape.
 
WOW..
Thanks Major, Have I got a use for this..
In the MAW Missions of yours Major, I sent..

May I put this beautiful bird into this set??
It would really enhance the mission set..
Thanks Major for this one..
BRAVO..:salute: :salute:
 
It's in...
The FW 190 MAW is fun to shoot down Spits with..
Having a ball...Taking out Hurricanes too..
Thanks Major very much, i'll send the other three missions for the set to you..
I have to polish them a bit and they will be ready for the testers..
I made a spawn for this and a facility for the missions also using your FW 190 MAW..
:salute: :salute: :salute:
 
I can't see how anybody can shoot down Spits with any of the FW190s on offer... Rene and I were discussing this the other day; the real FW190 was supposed to make life extremely difficult for whoever was facing it, yet the CFS versions, no matter who put the FM together, all seem to handle - rolling apart - like bricks. Like trying to dogfight with a Starfighter... Boom and zoom is all very well, but if the people you plan to boom at are on their toes, you won't get the chance.
 
I can wreck any Spitfire.. And do it in a Fw 190A..:icon31:
At least that is my story and I'm sticking to it:jump:
Just finished off several Spits tonite..OPPPS!!!!

off hiding before the Brits hear of this..:icon_lol:
 
ndicki said:
I can't see how anybody can shoot down Spits with any of the FW190s on offer... Rene and I were discussing this the other day; the real FW190 was supposed to make life extremely difficult for whoever was facing it, yet the CFS versions, no matter who put the FM together, all seem to handle - rolling apart - like bricks. Like trying to dogfight with a Starfighter... Boom and zoom is all very well, but if the people you plan to boom at are on their toes, you won't get the chance.
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I don't fly FW190 a lot, but I generally agree with Nigel. Nevertheless one may recon that in CFS3, when in an allied fighter with no cannons on it, those FW can take such a punishment that are almost undestructible. The Spits can take them anytime, of course (while their cannon ammo supply lasts)...:wiggle:
 
One of the best tips I've heard about dogfighting in the Fw 190 is "always move the stick in only one direction" which means that if you're doing an aileron roll stay away from the elevator and vice versa. Oddly enough it works and cuts the unexpected stalling in half but the problem is that when you're trying to stay alive in a furball you won't be thinking "oh, I've applied some elevator, I must not touch the ailerons" but yanking the stick in whatever direction looks attractive in that situation. And the next thing you'll notice is flipping over to the opposite direction and losing a good couple of hundred feet of altitude as the damn brick stalls again.

But really, it's just laws of physics. The wing is smallish, 197 square feet compared to 173 sq ft of the Bf 109G or 242 sq ft of the Spitfire but the aircraft is heavy, all the late models weighing about 10000lbs in flying condition compared to 7000lbs of a Bf 109G-6 or 9500lbs of a Spitfire IX. To add to the issue the wing is thin and thus gives good speed but little lift.

One thing the real Fw 190 did very well, and which is also replicated in the AvH flight models, is the initial turn. It turns the first 90 degrees or so blindingly fast and if that's enough to gain the deflection needed, good for you. If it's not, better quit the turn right there before it stalls and run away to try again.
 
Maybe one of the reasons why some of the early-war Experten, such as Adolf Galland, who had trained and fought with the 109 for some years, flatly refused to go anywhere near the 190! If you've acquired first-class reflexes on one type of aircraft, it's perhaps better to stick with that than change for one which is radically different. I don't suppose that it made so much difference for the run-of-the-mill pilots...
 
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