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Help and Support Forums => Help and Training => Topic started by: keyapaha on February 08, 2002, 09:23:07 AM
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anybody here fly the typhoon i dont see many of em anyway i think i will give the plane a try an the next CT setup since there will be no russian planes to fly. what can i expect from this plane are there any weird charcteristics i should know about. i have never flown this plane not even offline. if anybody knows its strong and weak points and its preformence please let me know.
thanks in advance:)
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Hiyas,
I've flown a bit in the tiffie, and found it incredibly fun.
Strengths
Speed
Acceleration
Instanteous Turn Rate
Zooming ability
Diving ability
Guns
Weaknesses
Low spee handling
Sustained turn rate
Roll rate
Keep this plane fast, use its strengths and avoid its weaknesses :) I think the toughest matchups for the Tiffie are the P51/Yak/La7 type planes. They are virtually as fast, bettter sustained turn and roll better.
Great plane, you'll love it!
Nim
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I don't have much experience with the typhoon, but this is what i know:
there's a big preformance gap at 10-12k. check the charts on HTC help page. peak relative preformance is at 7k.
diving acceleration is exeptional, but you'll compress faster than most planes.
it bleeds a lot of E in turning. usully I lost to it in looping fights.
it sucks at scissors, but god help the one that crosses infront of 4*hispanos...
low ammo load - do what I found usefull in the hurri. fire 2 canons at a time unless it's a shure shot or a HO. I set one cannon pair on the hurri to converge close (for TnB), the other far for sniping.
hope this helps.
Bozon
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Another thing I noticed was,
Typhoons, due to the might of pure, raw power of acceleration
out turn planes with average turning abilities in the long run.
It seems to me like a classic case of bad sustained turn angle,
but good sustained turn rate.
There was an incident with me in a 109G-2 engaging a Typhie, and
judging from the guy's flight patterns, he was pretty much a newbie.
Being at an disadvantage, I was able to blow his E and got to a point
where we ended up in continuous turn, each after the other's tail.
At first, I thought I was winning. G-2 is the best turner of the G series
109s, and though not as fabulous as Spits or Zeros, it has a average
and decent rate of turn.
It really seemed like I was winning this turn fight, and just a few more
circles and I'd finally close upon the Typhies tail enough to get a gun
solution.... but after this point, my G-2 was able to sustain the angle
of turn, but the turn speed began dropping. The Typhie, who seemed
in whole lot of trouble when this first began, was quite obviously doing
nothing much but ramming up the WEP and pulling the stick as hard as
possible without stalling.
With dismay, after the critical point, I slowly began losing the turn fight,
and finally gaped in disbelief as the Typhie got onto my 6 and shredded
the tail section with Quad-Hispanos.
I had this same thing happening when I was in a La-7, and the enemy
was in a Tempest. Same situation, same results. "Just a little bit more..."
.. and after that point, the La-7 loses ground, the Tempy monster keeps
up the turn and latches on to the tail of La-7... and BAM! End of Story.
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Bozon,
The typhoon has an EXCELLENT dive rate and its compression is excellent! At least its been my experience that it has been.
Nim
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NIM, when you're right, you ARE right :)
just tested it off line. my old impression of early compression was due to the fact that you quickly go off the dial!!!
it only goes as high as 480mph.... but the tiffy steams on....
I stand corrected :)
Bozon
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low fast speed rocket attacks on ground targets, watch out for stalls
great bird;)
td
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I havent flown tiffie in a long time but I'd either stay low...under 10k...or go up to 15k or so...I usually carry the tip tanks and 50% fuel. Stay fast...no turns over 120 degree's or so. I used to try and zoom..."under to over" if you get under em...you zoom up to 50yds and ruin there day...if you think they see ya....start to climb at over em at 2.5 or so...that will drop closure speed...as you get inside 1.5 come off gas and roll in on bogie....the initial turn rate will often give you that nice short range snapshot...your also nose down as you zoom thru....either roll 90 degree's away and pull up....or extend as needed. You can kill an awful lot of folks with that 1st 120 degrees of turn.
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It's great for slashing style attacks. Come in with lots of speed, take a shot with your hispanos on the way through the furball, zoom up, over, repeat. When you run outta alt then you just keep it level and motor away towards home. It's one of the top 2 or 3 birds for speed when clean on the deck but has some serious dips in performance at certain alts so watch at which alt you are fighting.
I love the Typhoon though, fly it a lot, some guys (Vulcan comes to mind) are deadly in it. Just keep it fast as it isn't a great sustained turner and the terrible roll rate will get you killed fast if you get slow.
-Soda