Is the D4Y1 taking off underpowered?

because dauntless dive bomber can barely take off in fact if you don’t use flaps on a 4 starred dauntless you WILL crash into the sea

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No, you can take off just fine with them. Throttle up to max immediately, use your artificial horizon to keep the plane level as soon as the tail picks up to reduce drag and avoid bouncing, right as you are about to go off, max out the flaps, close the gear when fully over water, keep going level until you pick up enough speed to reduce flaps one by one. You probably will want to slightly turn away from the battlefield for a bit (until you get a little bit of speed and at like 300m of altitude, so that you don’t arrive over it scraping the treetops)
it’s perfectly doable every time

I am using flaps but I still go slowly down to water. This plane just can’t take off. Fact. I do not know what to do :(((((

Do what he says

Point the nose down while taxiing, levelling the plane will gain you more speed, enough for take off.
Not too far down or else the propeller will hit the ground and break.

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