Give planes the ability to pull up a little bit better

Suggestions
1

I understand flight stamina and such, but there are far too many times that the ability to pull up in a plane just gives out entirely, even when no strenuous maneuvers have been performed prior to it. This happens a lot especially in Normandy campaign. The issue is in more than just one plane, and it leads to a lot of “suicide runs”, even for experienced pilots.

Note: My group plays on console. We are experienced pilots (in game). This occurs fairly often, at least once or twice per game. We haven’t sustained any damage, the plane just refuses to pull up. Its happened in other campaigns too. I put this in suggestions as hopefully it will be addressed if its either intentional or if its a bug.

2

Pull up before you hit the ground?

Or just use combat flaps to decrease the time it take for plane to pull up.

3

We try to pull up before hitting the ground, and it acts like it won’t pull up at all.
We use combat flaps all the time when moving into our target. In the instances that I’m talking about it does not help at all.

4

It’s called compression, essentially you are going too fast, some planes suffer from this stiffening of controls…

5

What is strange is that I’ve started to do a lot more “glide bombing” where i cut my throttle all the way down to “0” and glide in over the target, drop, and then full throttle on the exit, I still have the issue.

6

I fly on console and I don’t see that problem myself. I do have a theory though:

I have noticed that the default console controls put the throttle on the left stick; and during aggressive maneuvers the throttle can unintentionally be reduced, with predictable results when flying ground-attack missions.

I combat that issue by adding a modifier on the throttle that the left stick has to be depressed for throttle adjustment. This prevents any accidental throttle changes and I haven’t had any trouble with it since.

If that’s not the issue, maybe some screen recordings or replays could help illustrate the problem

7

Yeah we don’t use default controls. We have ours setup akin to BF3 flight controls. I’ll try to get some recordings if I can. (I need to make more space for recordings. lol)

8

ahhh the good ol days of BF3 jet flying. At least until they reworked flying in that game. I was one of the best pilots in NA too :’(

9

IRL you use physical strength to pull up, so essentially the game is saying your character is weak

10

What is odd is that for sometimes I can make multiple passes with no issue, and other times it fails on the first pass. Does he just spawn in tired or what lol?

11

This is quite old but I put this together a while ago, haven’t updated since pacific though, might do later… should help new pilots though.