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    Im getting very frustrated. Just about 95% of the times I get shot down, whether online or offline (mainly online), its because my controls (specifically the elevator controls) are damaged. This happens all the time!! And it happens in any plane that I fly. Some guy fires off a quick burst, gets a lucky hit, and my controls are gone! I can deal with my rudder gone, and maybe the ailerons, but I realistically cant make it back to base with NO control over the elevators. As long as I have control authority, I can usually manage to nurse a plane home, or at least crash land it, but without controls its hopeless, even if the plane is in perfect condition other than the damn controls shot away. Im sorry if this sounds like a whine, but this just happens way too often in my eyes, and its getting very frustrating.

    Of all the veteran first-hand accounts I've read in countless magazines, articles, and stories, I've just about never heard of the control cables being hit to the point that there was no control left for the pilot at all. I've heard accounts of damaged surfaces and mushy controls, but not enough to warrent the plane turning into a lawn dart and having a perfectly good, yet control-less plane head straight into the ground.

    Sorry for the vent, but does anyone else experience damaged controls WAY too often?
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    It does seem to happen a lot. Rarely do I hit the ground without at least one or more control failure.

    Though it's not true that an elevator failure dooms you. Pitch can still be controled using throttle and flaps. It's possible to land with only rudder, or only aileron.
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    Stigler_9_JG52's Avatar Banned
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    Indeed. Despite all the pretty arrows we get, the damage model pretty much sucks.

    Couple that with the nuclear tipped power of any shell over rifle caliber and we're all flying modern planes with GAU-8 gatling guns.
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    slo_one23's Avatar Banned
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    fly the p-38 instead of controls failure whch did happen alot ,i flew 20 qmb against airstrip in the p-38 every time i got engine fire and about half of them i got one controlsurface or another knocked out but c'mon fire 20 times in a row?!?!?!
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    Thanks for the replies, I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this!
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    georgeo76's Avatar Senior Member
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    I get control damage about as often as anything else. Most common for me is fuel leak. But I may have less experience than some of you.
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    A big gripe in this area is the f4f. It seems almost 7/10 times i will loose my alerons on first hit. I have had it happen at least 5 times in a row on many occasions.
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    mortoma's Avatar Senior Member
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    Why can't you make it back to base with out your elevator?? In RL, as a pilot, I'd think it not possible since the elevators would droop as you slowed down. Most likely causing fatal results.
    But in the game I have done it many, many times.
    I swear, probably THE best landing I ever made in a Me-110G2 was without elevator control. I kid you not. I think I was really lucky and modulated the thottles and the flaps ( up and down constantly ) just right. I could hardly tell I touched the virtual terra firma!!!

    In some planes it is more difficult than others but I've yet to have it happen and not at least be able to get over my own territory and bail, if not land. Sometimes I land but end up nosing over at the end of the runway but hey, I still made it. Didn't I??

    Seriously it's a very doable thing in this sim. There also have been times without elevators that I had to roll constantly to stay at the altitude I wanted to and those were usually the times I had to bail. You can't land when you are in that situation.

    One time, in a 109G6, I got hit by a Hurricane with those wicked quad cannons and it took out all three controls. But I still was able to get back over my lines because I discovered that by
    modulating the thottle, I could get the thing to go in certain directions. I got it going the correct way and bailed as soon as I got over my front lines. This seemed to be in a certain patch version since I have had it happen a couple times since but was not able to steer the plane.
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