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Title: please adjust FM
Post by: paintmaw on March 10, 2001, 01:28:00 PM

go here and DL the 1999 promo film http://www.bulldogairshows.com/ (http://www.bulldogairshows.com/)
this guy rocks , I probably watch this film 3 times a week , then get in my spits . Ive seen bulldog twice , and he's better in person . Bulldog will be at the Rose Parade Air Show this summer in Portland Oregon .
Why can't I do that Micro Loop in my spit  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
                         Paint  

Title: please adjust FM
Post by: Tac on March 10, 2001, 04:25:00 PM

Maybe because that spit in the airshow is not using low octane fuel or has full ammo load and guns + armor on it?

Just a wild guess.

Title: please adjust FM
Post by: Rifle on March 10, 2001, 05:48:00 PM

Tac - although probably correct about this Spit not having full ammo or armor, the RAF started using high-octane fuel in Spitfires right after the fall of France (June 1940).

They went from 83 octane to 97/100 octane.

Cheers,
     Rifle

Title: please adjust FM
Post by: wolf37 on March 10, 2001, 06:57:00 PM

mmmmmmmmmmmm  high octane beer.

Title: please adjust FM
Post by: paintmaw on March 10, 2001, 07:46:00 PM

ummm  NO spit flys kile a Pits  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: please adjust FM
Post by: 54Ed on March 10, 2001, 08:43:00 PM

Yeah, ok, but check THIS out:
 www.inflightzone.com/videos/kairys.mpg (http://www.inflightzone.com/videos/kairys.mpg)

Title: please adjust FM
Post by: J_A_B on March 10, 2001, 10:40:00 PM

He brings up a valid point....the planes in AH DO seem a bit on the "sluggish" side, compared to every other flightsim--online or offline--I have ever played.  And I have played a lot of em.

If AH is the only different one, I would wager AH is not quite accurate somewhere.  Unfortunately I lack the resources or time  to "prove" it.

EDIT:   I don't mean this as "AH's FM is wrong", although as I re-read my post that's what it LOOKS like I'm saying.  Rather, I am trying to say there's something causing the AH planes to be sluggish, possibly the way AH reads joystick inputs, possibly something else.

J_A_B

[This message has been edited by J_A_B (edited 03-10-2001).]

Title: please adjust FM
Post by: Downtown on March 11, 2001, 04:42:00 AM

You know that HT has won the "Fighter Over America" competition twice?

That is where wealthy businessmen with some experience in aircraft get to dogfight each other.  I know that HT won one over Lake Michigan in a P-51.  So HT has flow a P-51 in a mock dogfight.  I am sure there were rules to flow, altitude limit, "G" limit, and such. Plus the P-51 in question probably didn't have additional weights added to simulate pilot armor and guns.  Still the closest thing to air to air combat that I know of.

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"Downtown" Lincoln Brown.

Title: please adjust FM
Post by: juzz on March 11, 2001, 05:07:00 AM

Uhm, yeah: a WW2 monoplane fighter flying like an aerobatic biplane. Uh huh.

Title: please adjust FM
Post by: MrSiD on March 11, 2001, 12:09:00 PM

Thats like saying you saw a6m turning and wanting to do the same with the jug.