Roll trim right: Cursor Right (right → arrow key).Roll trim left: Cursor Left (left ← arrow key).Pitch trim down: Cursor Up (up ↑ arrow key).Pitch trim up: Cursor Down (the ↓ down arrow key).Click Plane controls, and set the following:.Because of this, I suggest remapping the keys for the following as follows: If you want a better understanding of how these flying machines work, and to fly on some popular online servers with realistic flight settings, you need to learn a few obscure engine controls, which, by default, are mapped to awkward keyboard key combinations 2. You can play with a mouse to control the flight stick and throttle, if you like, though a joystick, even a relatively cheap one, like the clunkly-named $50 T-Flight Hotas X Master of Thrust, which I am using, (I now have a VKB Gladiator NXT), brings you closer to the experience of flying one of these propeller-propelled mechanical long-tailed game birds. Then, start the simulator by depressing your mouse button while the cursor hovers over its icon on your Windows PC computer (unfortunately IL-2 is only available on Windows at this point). Purchase and install IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad (also available on the Steam digital game distribution service, although the developers receive more well-deserved money if you buy it from their website. If you are still awake, dear reader, this possibly means you! Here we go. 1Īfter spending some time with IL-2 BOS and overcoming difficulties lifting the plane off the ground, I decided to write a brief tutorial that might help someone interested in this excellent simulator. IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad ( IL-2 BOS) is the first map, dynamic campaign and collection of flying wood-metal-engine-and-guns contraptions in the third generation of the Sturmovik series, now known as IL-2 Great Battles. This means we did everything okay.” - Albert Zhiltsov

“All we need to do is just for maybe ten seconds, you believe you fly. The best I have ever “flown”, in the sense of making you believe you are really flying, is IL-2 Sturmovik, originally published in 2001. More stability in my life after moving into a new apartment and a connection with two friends who share my excitement about flying and video games means a return to a childhood passion: Flight simulators, a type of computer software that helps one feel the experience of flying an aeroplane. The Joy of Flight in IL-2 Sturmovik Flight Simulatorĭance on to the sky and smile while riding a metal pheasant from the 1940’s.

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