dangerbird

I liked FE at first but when I got the expansion pack I was surprised to discover that the Camel and Fokker Dr1 had become two of the most easy to fly aircraft in the game. The camel is immune to spins barely stalls at all. Not what I was after. Looks like TK just didn't bother trying to do set up the flight models properly for these aicraft. I am really disappointed.

Hello all, I'm new to First Eagles but have been keen on WW1 flight sims since the PC games Knights of the Sky. At first I passed over this game because it only focused on planes with inline engines and my favourite planes are the Camel and Snipe. I only heard of the expansion pack recently. I was initially impressed with the SPAD and SE5 without the expansion pack and actually pleased to be in unrecoverable spins, though less so in the SPAD. When I added the expansion pack I immediately tried out the Camel only to be really disappointed. This was one of the most unforgiving, unstable planes of the war but I couldn't even get it in a spin. It turned very nicely but was well behaved, even compared to the SE5. At this stage I have not applied any mods. I wondered if anyone else felt the same or if some of the mods addressed this. I remember trying Steve Baugh's camel for CFS2 which was all but unflyable. His Triplane was a dream though. Since RB3D there just hasn't been enough interest/resources to produce games with realistic flight models by default. Anyway, I'd also like to say thankyou to all the modders contributing here.