Flaps/Air brakes

[PPsh-441]

so what is the use of flaps in RB.when should I use it and your suggestions to use it wisely
also what about Air brakes?

[microspace38]

Flaps make your plane turn faster, but they also make it slower. They're better for low-speed maneuvers when your plane is losing mobility, but they can still come in handy at higher speeds (if your flaps can withstand them). Airbrakes slow down your plane, and are handy for dives to make sure you don't rip your wings.

[TasteDasRainbow]

Physically speaking, flaps are designed to extend the length of a wing and to force more air to travel further under your wing to generate more lift.

This means that you can maintain the proper amount of lift with lower air speeds, as mentioned before this helps you to maintain tighter turns due to lower air speeds, which can be exceptionally helpful during a turn fight, but will cost you lots of 'energy' as it increases drag by a fair amount.

On the flip side, at higher speeds, flaps can easily be ripped off, as the force of the air is stronger than the flap can withstand, and should never be used to simply slow the plane down outside of going in for a landing, when you have already reduced a substantial amount of air speed.

Air brakes can be exceptionally useful as previously mentioned in regards to diving, for instance dive bombing or trying to gain air speed to escape an enemy. This is because there are a fair amount of airframes that can become 'stuck' in a dive, where the downward force is stronger than the tail elevator can affect, stopping a pilot from pulling out of a dive and inevitably forcing them to crash.

An example of this is on the JU-87, where dive flaps/air brakes can help manage air speed for appropriate dive bombs, but also in the hypothetical situation that a fighter is tailing it. The fighter, without dive flaps, can easily become stuck in the downward dive, where the JU-87 can deploy air brakes to allow it to pull out of the dive and escape as the fighter continues, stuck in the dive, to crash into the ground behind the JU-87.

[Col. Cornbread]

as people have stated you use them to turn, but be warned this game has poorly written coding so just because your Plane uses their Flaps as Part of their Airbrakes doesn't mean that said Flaps are stronger then normal.

EG if your in the BTD (it uses its flaps as part of the airbrake) and turn your airbrakes on while diving at 400+mph they will slow you down. If youre flying at 300mph and hit your flaps, they will rip off because they are insanely weak for some reason but don't rip off if you use them for airbrakes.....

[Tank-Swiper]

lol sooo nerdy