WARNING

>FIRST IMAGE OF GOOGLE FOR FORMATION FLYING F16
>not a single F-16 in the picture

Attached: 1553741946949.jpg (160x198, 3.23K)

why flight sim fags are obsessed with ENERGY??

The last "good" combat flight simulator was IL-2 Sturmovick 1946. Shame the newest one is actual buttcancer. I hope the genre sees a rival as VR hardware improves.

>hotas soon
>but i wasted all my money on it so i can't buy games
fug :DDDD

>The last "good" combat flight simulator was IL-2 Sturmovick 1946

Is that because it's the last one that was simple enough for your smooth brain to understand?

For me it's Virpil.

Attached: virpil.jpg (1200x715, 96.47K)

LEFT ENGINE FIRE
RIGHT ENGINE FIRE
APU FIRE

FOX TWO FOX TWO

>IL-2 Sturmovick 1946
Not a flight simulator retard

The childhood friend

Attached: images (36).jpg (666x460, 22.04K)

2, running in
2, missile away
2, rounds on target
2, I'm hit!
2, ejecting

because air combat is all about energy, namely having more of it than your opponent. Whether its potential energy in being higher than your opponent or kinetic energy in going faster than your opponent. Having more energy gives you options.

Are there any flight sims that let me crash my plane in ridiculous ways (air collision, crash into mountain, have some kind of an engine malfuction that makes the plane uncontrollable)?
I tried Flight Sim X and was really disappointed that I couldn't even break my plane by doing insane aerobatics with Boeing 747 since the game just showed me an end-game menu with no crash animation or whatever. That's lame as fuck.

Attached: 44488204_133933025824.jpg (250x411, 22.7K)

Just fly the plane.

Attached: download.jpg (300x168, 14.67K)

Go circlejerk in discord with the rest of the Flight Simulator trannies and don't forget to suck off the air traffic control guy.

Attached: 12872-apache-dos-front-cover.jpg (600x684, 79.51K)

WE'RE
GOING

doesn't more speed just mean bigger turn radius, making them shoot you in the asshole?
i know dogfights aren't real anymore but still

youtube.com/watch?v=q4mLtsQ1i5Q

It's not so much that dogfights "aren't real" but that your theoretical attacker isn't even in view when they fire a missile. All you really do is a few simple turns, wait a bit, turn a bit more, then fire countermeasures. If it's a SAM then you did something stupid and deserve to get hit. Those shits are absolutely worthless in current year.

Reminder

Attached: simfag origins.png (3532x427, 97.2K)

>bait thread

Attached: 78106824_p0.jpg (1000x1000, 183.26K)

no, because you're thinking in flat 2d.

Speed means altitude, think about a snowboarder on a half pipe, The faster they go the more air they get.

Same with a plane, the faster it goes the more energy it has, the faster and higher it can climb. a slower less energetic plane can't follow you it'll eventually stall out if it tries, and with no energy it can't maneuver and is a sitting duck.
Turning also burns energy like crazy. its why late ww2 tactics were all about booming and zooming, basically hit and run from a position of higher energy.

Also ace combat doesn't model the fact that planes actually have a speed at which they turn best at which is not low speed, its because you bank into a turn and use the lift from your wings to turn you. Higher speed means more lift. so there's actually a sweet spot of speed were your turn radius is best (and its also depended on air density and altitude).

A lot of this is more complicated than it needs to be and in the end the simple answer is Energy.

What are you using at the moment?

nothing, it's my first hotas
i guess i'll suffer a "bit" with war thunder

thanks, nice explanation
now i wish there was an easy fun arcade game like AC but with a realistic flight model.