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[Schmitty]

Hello, I am a long time flight sim fan and I have recently come back to IL2 1946. After installing I found and installed the excellent VP Mod Pack 4.12 + 2x patches, this may be of relevance to my questions . Of particular interest to me is the A6M2 Zero, and I have a few questions about it that I have not been able to resolve as English information about a Japanese aircraft seems hard to come by and there appears to be no manual with information about V speeds, navigation ect other then the brief Aircraft Guide PDF.

1. Is there a manual/sheet with Take off speed, Landing speed, best rate of climb, best economy speed and proper engine management specific to the A6M2? I have been using the original documents on US testing from WW2 aircraft performance.org and they seem to be fairly accurate but I wonder if there is anything specific to IL2.

2. I notice the instrument layout of the A6M2 in the VP mod is different from the original IL2 A6M2 and most of the google photos I have looked up. specificaly these instruments.

Google Photos


IL2 + VP Mod Pack


Dose anybody know what these specific instruments these are and why there are different?
# 1. Looks like it relates to the compass and ADF ?
# 2. Appears to be the Mixture setting just moved ?
# 3. A forum post for a different game mentions it is a "Tilt Meter" but it dose not seem to work ?
# 4. I have no Idea....

Any help or explanation would be appreciated, I cannot seem to find anything on this in the games folders or the Internet. And I hope this is in the right part of the Forum. Cheers.

[vpmedia]

Delete #SAS\COCKPIT_DBW\3do\Cockpit\A6M2 in order to revert to the stock cockpit, you can keep tga files if you want.

[Knochenlutscher]

4. is the oldschool Yamaha RIAA phono preamp for the Turntable* only equipped to Party pilots


Axis Planes in Western Museums, only one note, you can't say it is
100% exact position of instruments, in 100% of the cases you'll find traces
of them experimenting (changing, deleting instruments).
This was required for them to fly test them, which usually meant going with some of their own systems,
while necromancing others out to find out how they work (* party preamp).

That Museum Zeke is typicall for Allied use of such Equipment,
note the necromanced Instruments.
So the actual state is to me nothing close to real, since it
changed at least several times (Service>Captivity>Restoration).

[Schmitty]

Thank you for the reply's. vpmedia I definitely prefer the one included in the VP pack but it is good to know how to change it. And to Knochenlutscher, that is very good point, I don't actually know much about the Zero so in all the photos i have seen they all seem to be different in some ways. In the released documents on the performance testing done by US Air force and Navy back in the 40s it is stated numerous times instruments where replace and fixes made that may/will affect performance so it makes it tricky to find "authentic" cockpit layout.

[Kopfdorfer]

Hey Guys,

Here are some images which look to me to be more "original" instrument layouts and positions.
Obviously some of the instrument functions have been transcribed to english , but they "seem" original.






Do you trust WarThunder Research ?


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