curly
I'm gonna be a programming geek, not an aeronautical engineer.
What I can come up with is things that in my mind strike me as "very odd indeed".
Like me in a 109, 450IAS, meeting a low chog. Chog does a 180 sharp turn, I gently go into a zoom, he follows, catches me, misses shot and dives away.
Now, to my untrained brain, with my experiences with energy things, when lots of force is applied to move a thing, and very little force is applied to moving another thing and when starting position is somewhat similar, this would mean that a BS flag goes up iny my head, and my objective voice says "oh, how most fascinating!", all why my emotional side goes "aaaaargh this is so $€£$@ up!".
So, all I can come up with is "I don't like it, because this to me is counterintuitive to everything I know or have experienced.". I'll listen to an explanation, and if it is satisfactory or impossible to counter, I'll end up accepting it. In AH as in real life.
WHat I don't like about new fm;
rudder slip. Skid plane sideways, expose much more to air resistance. There are simple rules of physics about the force needed to overcome a square foot of air resistance at different speeds, so this ain't too hard. Why does fully deflecting my rudder at 210IAS @ 1k not result in any significant speed loss, when throttle is at minimum? Inertia? Would think gravity and wind resistance would overcome it.
The F4u was, AFAIK, an e fighter, yet with the new FM, a lot of people are, quite succesfully, using it as an angles fighter. This strikes me as odd (the success, not what people do
).
Lancasters at 35k. Enough said.
Spins much gentler, and easier to correct. Departed flight characteristics also makes life easier. This might be more true to real life, but since HTC are competent, I wonder how they could have gotten it that much off the first time? Are these characteristics a function of e retaining capability and some other factors?
Haven't used CT, so won't comment on that.
A8 characteristics have improved, but not enough to offer an alternative way of fighting with it. I read somewhere that A( and F4U have roughly the same wingloading. Of course, it's only one factor, but also read that it is one of the more significant ones. SHould they not have similar characteristics? Or is the wingloading difference bigger than what I've read on this board?
109F4 fm seems to have been left untouched. Alarm flag raised when a G10 could flat turn with me (thanks Swager, was fun
). I might be wrong.
These are, IMHO, valid observations/questions, yet I am almost afraid of posting them here, because I'll be labelled a whiner and that's the end of it. I'm sincere when I make them, and wish no harm to HTC nor do I want to discredit their hard work.
I ain't quitting just yet
.
------------------
StSanta
JG54 "Grünherz"
"If you died a stones throw from your wingie; you did no wrong". - Hangtime
