Morton's Conversion of Corrado La Posta's Fiat G-50

[Devildog73]

If you have not flown Morton's conversion of Corrado La Posta's FS2004 to CFS2 Fiat G-50, you are MISSING something!

I would never want to take it up in combat like the Italians did against the British over the channel in the early days of the war.

Or against the RAF, USAAC, RAAF, and SAAF in the Med later on.

But, it is a pleasure to fly! I could ALMOST feel the wind in my face flying around site-seeing in it.
And the sound from Lawdog! WOW.

It is an amazing aircraft as long as you do not have to get into a furball with it.

DD

[Rami]

Devildog,

Yes, that's true, she is a beaut. For the campaigns that I use her in, I included a revised airfile, panel.cfg, dp. file, and an aircraft.cfg to correct the severe nose-down attitude she has, and to make it so that she shoots straight through the gunsight.

The biggest use I found with her so far is in Finland and in Corpo Aereo Italiano. Over Britain, she was the monoplane fighter they chose to fight with, shivering in open cockpits over Harwich and Kent. I actually feel you have a better chance with the Cr-42 Falco; at least you can turn inside both the Hurricane and Spitfire very easily and stand a chance to get a shot off!

[Devildog73]

Rams,

Yeah, they did suffer from the cold northern European climate in those crates. And, they could not out run, nor could they chase down a Hurricane or Spitfire.

According to accounts I have read of them in the Battle against Britain, they could take a beating, but had insufficient fuel capacity to really do anything substantial over the Channel. Topped out in level flight I think they could just barely maintain 210 knots at full throttle. As they turned to escape the attacking Hurry or Spit, the wingmen would drill them. Quite a few were shot down "just for practice" by the Allies, because they did not pose a serious threat. A lot of Italian pilots trained up and flew hand-me-down Bf-109e models as the Luftwaffe changed over to Fs and then Gs rather than freeze in the G-50s that did not get shot down.

I am going to have to look up Corrado's FS2004 model and d/l and install it in my FS9. As a civilian model in that venue, it should be fun.

I wonder if the actual model is that easy and that much fun to fly? In warm weather at low altitude of course. ;-)

[Rami]

Devildog,

Your point about the range is true, and they were also flying from Belgium, not the Pas-de-Calais, so they were even more handcuffed than the Germans were. They could only perform escort over Kent, really, and just scrape the coastline northeast of London. :jump:

[Devildog73]

I got into them researching some missions for the TA. Seems the Axis sent them back to the MTO due to their lack of use over the Channel. They had them attacking Allied ships and doing strafing runs on Allied troops. I thought I would let the TA have a go at some of them.

[Rami]

Devildog,

That must have been in 1943, they were almost completely phased out by the armistice in September. :wiggle:

[Devildog73]

Yes, and it is interesting that they actually flew a few free Italian missions after the armistice.