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adarbrauner -> RE: Nells (10/22/2017 7:41:54 AM)
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ORIGINAL: geofflambert
I didn't agree with your premise that a training aircraft need be similar to the aircraft that would ultimately be used and still don't. Two engined trainers were mainly used not to train pilots (I'm referring to US trainers) but to train bombardiers, navigators and gun turret operators. Your premise suggests P-38 pilots were somehow at a disadvantage since they trained on one-engined Texans. They weren't and I am dreading their arrival on the battlefield.
The syllabus probably should be first with the Stearman, basic trainer; then probably the Texan, advanced trainer; but here I guess bombers/multi engine big airplanes trainee pilots should have departed their ways for an airplane more similar to their final assignment; for the British that would have meant the Anson probably, while the Japanese had their much similar counterpart;
All this is taken into account and simulated, I guess, by the game with its general training program;
but from then on, I can hardly figure out how could you effectively train a Kawanishi perspective pilot on a Jake...yes, with setbacks, when he has to take control and convert to his cumbersome and complicated machine.
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ORIGINAL: geofflambert
Your premise suggests P-38 pilots were somehow at a disadvantage since they trained on one-engined Texans. They weren't and I am dreading their arrival on the battlefield.
Bong's squadron not yet arrived?!?
I guess how a slower higly manouverable plane could fare against a much faster but bulkier.
I'd like to test it in flight simulator against humans, but I'm a vey bad pilot.
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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Short for "Anal Retentive" a term for a personality type that is extremely controlling and detailed in everything they do. Other people regard them as "up tight", like having "clenched butt cheeks" - hence "anal retentive".
I see!
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