Welcome to the RAAF Training Department.
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The aim of these training pages is to impart to you information on how to fly IL2 successfully. By increasing your skill level you will exponentially increase your enjoyment of the game. All training is meant to be fun, interesting and informative. We try never to lose sight of the fact that this IS a game but it surely is one that rewards effort and time put into acquiring and honing many of the skills that were required to live and fight in the skies of WW2.
For your further reading there is a wealth of info published on the 'net and on the 'Reference Material' page are a number of excellent links to articles on Air Combat and Flight Simulators. Here you will find the tips, tricks and hints gathered and submitted by many real world and sim pilots over the years. Read well, you never know you might learn something that will help you survive in the online world just that little bit longer.
First a few basic principles and some ideas on how to go about surviving online. Most people just start up, take off and fly straight towards the nearest enemy. As the IL2 world develops you will find more and more that this just leaves you as a smoking hole in the ground. The real answer is to fly IL2, or any other good quality sim, just as it was done by those brave men so many years ago. Fly every mission like it is the only life you have. Do some preparation, learn to fly offline, learn to navigate, look at the map and the placement of the fields, join online missions and watch other pilots from external view, read books like Robert L Shaw's bible of ACM 'Air Combat, Tactics and Maneuvering'. Most of all fly a lot. Click on the links for each subject and see what you can learn. We are always glad to help anyone who asks politely.
So are you always augering into the dirt 6 inches before the start of the tarmac? or using every foot of a 12000' runway? constantly getting in the way of other traffic? or going from Full Throttle to Idle like a yoyo as you ride that bucking bronco down to an ear shattering crash as the gear oleos pop up through the floor? is the only time you are on the runway centreline when you cross it? or do you heave on the controls like a dory man pulling in aI'llb Cod? Then have a look at our Circuit Training Page, it was written just for you.
