ID3: Pride... part 2

[krigl]

More coolness... keep 'em coming.

(from Werner Schott's checklists and RL checklists from other sources... Just spent over 200 hrs in the FS9 DC3 on my RTW flight, usually overloaded at 33,000 lbs. GTW, and was able to verify those numbers)

Thanks Rottydaddy for the comment and for taking the time to write advice. However, I think you are basing it on the DC-3.  The Li-2 looks the same but has far weaker engines than the DC-3 and performs (in the case of this flight model) so much worse that it is almost unflyable, in my opinion. I did the mixture stuff and it didn't help. I trimmed it to climb at a constant rate with the nose low enough to avoid falling out of the sky and it was VERY slow at getting any height. I find it hard to believe that this flight model is realistic even given my low ability... Download it from FSUSSR and try it for yourself.

To simulate the weaker engines yet have a flyable plane I would alter the engines hp to somewhere between that of the DC-3 and that coming with the Li-2 flight model, because it just isn't adequate... maybe the sim can't model the performance well?

Thanks again

Krigl

[Ivan]

Engines are DC-2 type, fuselage is DC-3. Some early ones are C-47's built from boxes with own engines, later ones have their own cowling design (both 1000HP).

Postwar, some got 1800HP engines mounted for airline use...

[beaky]

Woops- thought it was just a repaint of the DC3.... you're on your own. Don't know nothin' 'bout no Russian gooneybirds...

[Ivan]

They needed a -40C to +40C operating temperature range, so the american engines didn't fit the requirements. The was the case with the merlins on their spitfires, but that was a case of ammunition too, as they use different munition (12.7mm SKhAS and 30mm UBS) so they usually pulled all the british guns out, and replaced the engine with a M-105 when it broke down