Flaps dont work anymore. Did you niticed?
Can you:
- What plane
- What speed (IAS)
- What type of flap (combat, takeoff, landing)?
- What are you flap controls like?
~14 hours ago I was using my take off & landing flaps just fine in my Fw190A8 in SB difficulty. It functioned as I expected it to function. This is for both taking off & landing, and for combat usage to help bring nose on target at ~300 km/h IAS.
My flap controls are to press T to increase (combat into takeoff into landing) and R to decrease (reverse order).
The following planes had their flaps modified as of last update.
- Me 410 (all variants) — takeoff position of the flaps has been removed. Source: “D (Luft) T 2410 Me 410 A-1.- Flugzeug-Handbuch. Bd. 11. Part 9C. Druckölanlage.- Heft 1. Introduction”.
- Me 163 (all variants) — takeoff position of the flaps has been added. Source: “D (Luft) T 2163 Me 163 B.- Flugzeug-Handbuch. Bd. 3. Part 9C. Druckölanlage.- Heft 1. Description”.
- He 111 (all variants) — automatic flap retraction system depending on the flight speed has been added. Source: “D (Luft) T 2111 He 111 H-16.- Flugzeug-Handbuch. Bd. 10: Teil 9C: Druckölanlage”.
- Tempest (all variants) — automatic flap retraction system depending on flight speed has been added. Source: Air Publication 2458B.
If that is not the case,
Since you tagged this thread as Arcade,
In Options/Air Battle and in Controls/Mouse Aim, look for any and all mentions of “Instructor.”
I cannot recall which header it is under, but there should be a setting for “Instructor flap control.” See if issue persists if you disable it. It is not unusual for settings to get enabled/jumbled through updates
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How dare you bring logic and calm to his irrational argument!!
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For example F4U cant use flaps in AB.
F4U in particular has unique flaps. Namely, they will automatically retract at high speeds to prevent the flap from ripping. This was done IRL because the F4U is a carrier fighter-bomber and in event of failure to trap the tailhook, procedure is to full throttle off the carrier and go around for a second pass. This reduced workload on the pilot.
Now, in AB flap ripping is not a thing but it’s plausible Gaijin did not make a distinction.
Going in-game, with my F4U-4 (Realistic Difficulty, Full-real Controls), you can observe my flaps are at “Combat”:
Cutting throttle, you can observe my flaps extending to full for “Take-off”
Going into a dive, you can observe my flaps retract fully to avoid ripping:
As I pull out and start turning in a flat circle, my flaps reapply automatically:
Killing my speed entirely, I have full landing flaps:
Here is a table of speeds over which flaps retracted to the previous level:
This is why I was asking you for IAS - because in the F4U, at over 386 IAS my flaps fully retract
This is quite handy in ARB/GRB/ASB/GSB as it prevents ripping your flaps when using them in vertical loops (no.1 cause of me ripping my flaps off in my 109s - forgetting to retract flaps after tipping over on top of the loop!)
I concede, as flaps cannot rip in AAB, this system is technically a detriment but it is historically accurate.
Edit: in realistic (Air RB)
The Typhoon Mk 1b and late had these auto-flaps a year or more ago, but they still don’t seem to work properly. Just interested if you’ve had any experience with these planes with regards to the flaps?
(Once you’re above landing flap rip speed then you can’t use combat flaps (says blocked by high speed, or if you have combat flaps in use they just retract at landing flap rip speed).
Unfortunately those I don’t fly.
However, if the Tempest is like the Typhoon then -
- Tempest (all variants) — flaps now lock up after being automatically retracted because of high speed, so the next extension needs to be performed manually. Sources: Air Publication 2458B; A.P. 1804A Typhoon 1A & 1B - Sabre II Engine - Binder 2.
From recent update sub-patch 18
No worries. Yeah I saw that note and wondered then if I could manually do the flaps in the Typhoon now (as it changed over a year ago). But sadly no. So then I tried the Tempest and it does the same thing as the Typhoons. AFAIK I’m using the manual flap option (the only one I can find in Options… not the ‘toggle’ one, but the separate “flaps down” / “flaps up” one)