Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Ripsnort on July 08, 2002, 05:55:46 PM
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I've heard a few players say "something has changed in the FM of plane XX"
Think about this:
over 50% of the fields in AK Pizza are relatively high. Winds in the arena are currently at 14,000 feet, 30 MPH, traveling West to East. If your dogfighting at a higher field, then you *may* be encountering a wind layer that will do strange things to your aircraft.
Rest assured, if HTC changes a FM, they inform everyone! They have since 1995, don't see why they'd change their policy now....
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Ripsnort,
I second that as I had this experience:
I took off in my Mossie and was wondering why it was such a dog. I was thinking:
"Well now, this is hardly better than that U.S. hunk o' junk I was trying earlier (A-20G) and noted would be eaten for lunch by a Mossie 6."
Then I thought:
"Heh, how silly of me. I loaded 2k of eggs. There, that's solved!"
A bit later I went:
"Hmmm, strange. Still seems to be climbing like its stuck in mud. I don't remember my Mossie stuggling for altitude like this. I wonder what is up?"
Then I happened to glace at my altimeter:
"16,500ft No way I reached 16k in 3 minutes!"
So I clicked on the ALT button and looked at the base I'd taken off from.
The base was 11k up.
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Hmmm... this has to be taken into account when you are doing level bombing... after your calibration, your bomber may drift off course. (just saying)
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... let alone bombs being affected by wind on their way down.
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I have no trouble landing AT ALL,but yesterday I augered during a landing,simply because I forgot it was a 11k field and not a sealevel one;) .FM STILL THE SAME.