Hey everyone!
Well, as some of you know I've been playing 5 years, when I started in AH1 I started out in a P-51D squad called The Wildcards, okay squad mostly new guys at the time, but I learned in a BnZ style plane, then as I learned more and more about a year ago I started flying the seafire, well with as much as I knew about BnZ I found the spit to be better at that then TnB. But when I face a spit5 or seafire there is one thing it does that I don't beleave it should do in real life. When you auto climb without WEP you get between 2000-2400fpm with WEP about 3000fpm, not much at all, and it's a very light aircraft weighing in at only 5000-6000 Ibs. When I'm in a P-47 or P-38 (12,000Ibs +) and pull into the vertical a Spit will ALWAYS catch up! Now if I'm chasing a spit I can't catch up... I just don't get how the Spit hold E so well when it's so light! From what I know a P-47 in a high speed zoom should EASLY how climb most other aircraft let alone an earlier, underpowered and light weight spit. The only plane I seem to be able to easily down a spit in is a Ki-84 well using the vertical, basicly nothing can match so I've become acustom to using. But because of the amount of spits flying, I feel I almost have to fly a dedacated turner or a Ki-84 Otherwise the Spit will catch me either in the vertical, at long range with the 20mm's, or in a flat or even decending turn... Now in Il-2 and Pacifice Fighters the spit is good, but it can't outtrun a Ki-84, or even come close to a zero. It's more like a Ki-61 in this game then anything else, and in PF the P-51's and Ki-61s are a vlose match too except the P-51's have much better speed and range. So any ideas or comment on this? I'm sure this has come up before! lol Just so you all know, I don' t mind the Spit 1, 9 or 14, they all have some sort of negative, the spit 5 and seafire (basicly the same plane in the game) seem to hold E better then any plane and are among the highest turners. Thats basicly it.
Edward X Calagari
