1. The plane comparison charts show a fw190-d8 cruising at 420 mph at 30k
I level out around 35k and after ten minutes I doing a whopping 290 mph.
I turn off combat trim and then reset it after auto-level, have stall limiter off and dropped fuel tank with about 50% fuel left. I cruise with WEP on for another 5 minutes and it makes no difference. I'm still doing 290 mph.
It could take for ever to get up to full speed that high, nobody really goes that high. Most fightinging happens around 10K and lower. In the senarios they use high alt, but not in the game.
Is the cruising speed referred to here descending?
I set the plane to small descent and after losing 5k I am moving at 410 mph and soon after the plane starts jumping like mad. I reset combat trim and after ten seconds it calms down some still shaky.
The shaking is the compression setting in. It comes on much quicker at higher alts. Side slipping with the rudder helps slow you down and gets you out of mild ones, trim controls can get you out of total lock ups.
How do you make ponies and Fws cruise at the speeds they claim at high alt?
I can cruise faster level at 1k without wep and full load of fuel.
Again most don't fly that high, time is what you need to build the speed, not much air for the prop to work on.
2. Does WEP power build up after it is used up?
I think it does in all planes, but not sure. As the engine cools you can use it again. I seem to remember a number of people complaining that that is not realistic as once the water or nos was used up it was gone.
3. I don't see any real advantage to disengaging stall limiter.
I take a P38 with SL on and can hang on props at ZERO mph for a few seconds.
Without SL I start falling to the side after 50 mph.
coming down with SL on, I can spin the nose around quickly and turn it fast.
Without SL on I have to slow down or deal with spins.
Stall limiter retards the degrees a second you can pull. So with you having it on and I off I can hit a turn harder and so get ahead of you because you will be limited in how hard you can push it. WIth it off you have to be more carefull of stalls but the advantages out weigh the danger. Combat trim is something else all together. With combat trim on rolling up and over the top of a loop with a 38 gets you kind of stuck in the air. The auto trim tries to trim your nose up as your trying to pull it down so it hinders you more at slow speed maneuvering. Some people have a joystick switch set aside to flip combat trim on and off. Flick it off to get good slow speed stall maneuvers, and flick it back on when you build up a bit of speed again.
