(Il2 46 and Il2 BoS) and above all from what the pilots of the time (both Italian and British) said. The aircraft has always been described as very manageable and with a good handling. In the sense that it is different from what I experienced in other sim. I also think that Macchi's FM is partly wrong. I didn't like complaining about the FMs of the planes and by choice I always preferred "difficult" planes. I think I'm one of the players with the most hours with 202 in MP (I use the nick 5th Hellrider) and getting quite decent results. It is necessary that TFS corrects this aspect of the 202, that is antihistorical and also makes flying the C202 quite frustrating. AFAIK, the only victim of an unrecoverable spin of a Macchi 202 was Maggiore Antonio Valle, a pilot of 4° Stormo Caccia who died testing the C202. When pulled too hard dropped the right wing and may have possibly entered in a spin, but *not* in the way the eraly C200s did. The C202 *did not* have the tendency to spin like the early C200. The wing of the C202/C205 followed these experiences and adopted variable profile and other improvements. The C200 wing was modified through almost all the production and many modifications to the profile were tested. The problem was corrected in the following batches by adopting a variable profile for the wing, as suggested to Castoldi by Ing. Unfortunatly the weight of the further equiments requested by the Regia Aeronautica altered the CoG position, giving the plane an erratic behaviour and making difficult the spin recovery.įirst batch of C200 was forced down after two pilots died because their C200s entered in a spin at low altitude and crashed. So, the C200 actually entered in spins, but also recovered easily. I try to translate, forgive my english: " entered in all the spins naturally due to flow separation and the turns were caused by autorotation.exiting the spins happened always regularly in less than half a rotation after the third rotation the plane had the tendency to exit the spin, so much that it was necessary to contrast this by the ailerons, especially in left spin.in the longest spins (5 turns) a total of 1300m of altitude were lost". L’uscita dalla vite avvenne sempre regolarmente in meno di mezzo giro dopo il terzo giro l’apparecchio aveva tendenza all’uscita, tanto da costringere al contrasto con gli alettoni per mantenervelo, ciò specialmente a sinistra.Nelle viti più lunghe (5 giri) furono persi m 1300 di quota in totale" This "infamy" comes from the bad spin behaviour of the early C200s, that had a nasty tendency to spin because of the constant profile wing.ĭespite this, March 1st 1938 engineer Ambrogio Colombo presented the C200 to the military commission and wrote in the report: " tutte le entrate in vite avvennero naturalmente per distacco della vena fluida e i giri furono dovuti ad autorotazione. Otherways *all* the italian pilots would have died at the first turn. Indeed the Macchis had the tendency to drop the right wing and even enter in a spin when pulled too hard, but *not* in that way. In this respect the FM is completely wrong.
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