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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Viking on September 05, 2006, 12:17:52 AM

Title: Spitfire Mk. V speed and climb
Post by: Viking on September 05, 2006, 12:17:52 AM

I'm a newb, but I noticed that the Spitfire V doesn't live up to the performance "adverticed" on the Aces High web site ... or am I flying it wrong? I can only get it to 304 mph at sea level and 3000 fpm. :confused:

Title: Spitfire Mk. V speed and climb
Post by: Lusche on September 05, 2006, 12:42:55 AM

304mph @ Sea Level only? Well, prove me wrong, but this IS about the performance indicated by the graph on this website:

(http://www.hitechcreations.com/ahhelp/models/charts/spit5spd.gif)

So "advertised"  and your experienced performance seem to be pretty much the same to me.

Title: Spitfire Mk. V speed and climb
Post by: Viking on September 05, 2006, 01:31:03 AM

Yes the speed is not off by more than a few mph, but the climb is (in my experience). I can never get the thing to climb more than 3000 fpm.

(http://www.hitechcreations.com/ahhelp/models/charts/spit5clmb.gif)

Title: Spitfire Mk. V speed and climb
Post by: Wolfala on September 05, 2006, 02:19:19 AM

We had a juiced up Mk V awhile back, then a patch came out and removed a few #'s off the boost so it wasn't so helicopterish. Then we had the MK VIII and MK 16 come out, which turned the MK V into a hanger queen.

So the graph's I don't think have been updated to reflect the reduced performance of the MK V since that time.

Title: Spitfire Mk. V speed and climb
Post by: Viking on September 05, 2006, 02:26:22 AM

Ok, thanks. :)