Fulmen,
I checked out that little collection of photos; wonderful stuff! Thanks. You know what they say about gift horses, but it would have been nice to have a pic or two showing details of the canopy frame construction. We enthusiasts tend to concentrate on the instruments, but an important aspect of a sim is the canopy, as that's what we have to look through into the outside world.
But this stuff is invaluable, so I'll stop my moaning now.
Cheers!
Glenn
I'll PM you.
Some observations from limited testing of Vasya's FM for the B-239. Also I ran the mod on BAT and first with WxTech's rework installed as well, and then without the latter because its tachometer rework was overwriting Vasya's tachometer.
+The tachometer seems to be around what it should be. I think it might show a tiny amount too much RPM at higher altitudes? Might also be a flight model issue. WxTech's fix is still off by quite a lot more; recommend using Vasya's fix.
+The supercharger seems to behave more realistically. IRL you needed to switch it at 3,000 m, not 2,000-2,500 like in the game before.
+The aircraft seems to be about as fast as it should be.
+The aircraft is noticeably more agile, might still need to be even a little more agile but this would require looking at data and doing some more elaborate testing to ascertain.
-The speed gauge seems to be far too accurate. Just now whilst testing at 5,000 altitude I had an IAS of almost 410 km/h and my TAS was 421 km/h. IRL in a test with BW-356 on 10.8.1943 with full power at 5,000 m at 2,100 RPM and 90 cmHg manifold pressure IAS was 332 km/h while TAS in standard atmosphere was 461 km/h. At 3,000 m with the same aircraft IAS was 332 km/h when TAS was 429 km/h. Also at least when using BAT in WxTech's rework the gauge is currently all over the place. I think this was a result of BAT having already adjusted the gauge?
A couple of notes here as well: I had to disable NG-HUD to get accurate TAS from the HUD in "no cockpit" mode, as NG-HUD replaces this with IAS... Furthermore the IAS shown in the lower bottom-left corner by both the vanilla HUD and NG-HUD is
not what the speed gauge in the cockpit displays, generally it's far from it.
The desired outcome here is that cockpit IAS matches with HUD IAS, and that the error with IAS in relation to TAS matches with the real-life IAS-to-TAS error.
-If I'm reading the manifold pressure gauge right, it's wrong in all versions.
EDIT: No wonder, the in-game manifold pressure gauge is completely wrong; it's a 0-50 inHg one, where as the real one was 0-120 cmHg.-RPM decrease from overly rich fuel mixture is not modelled, only the decrease from too lean a mixture is.
-Damage from leaning mixture too fast and at the wrong temperatures is not modelled. Haven't actually tested what happens if you run WEP for too long. I have a suspicion that it may not destroy the engine like it should, but this needs to be tested.
But dear gentlemen, historically the LKk - 42 (Browning clone) appeared later than the Buffaloes themselves in Finladia. I would like to add that it was not a successful construction, cracking the barrel. And we have it included in the modification B-239-63. LKk-42 were used in Buffalo and Curtiss Hawk 75, which were in service in Finland in the later stages of the war. and here the author of the modification has kept the historical reference.
The VKT's (State Rifle Factory) 12.7 mm LKk/42 (Aircraft Machine gun model 1942) was installed on the wings of five Brewsters in total. It was tested in the autumn of 1943 on BW-382 with good results and during the winter of 1943-44 four other Brewsters received gun as well: BW-373, 377, 384 and 386. It could not be installed on the fuselage, because the charging mechanism was too heavy to be operated by hand by the pilots.
But then AFAIK the Finnish Brewster's were delivered in natural metal with just national insignia on them but no camo....
They were delivered in parts and assembled in Sweden and then flown to Finland, where FAF insignia was painted on them. They arrived in Finland looking like this: