Fw190

[MiloMorai]

What is the flight time of a 109G or K if a Dora only gets 27 minutes? Something must be wrong with the fuel burn rate.

[moot]

"1/2" meaning fwd + as little aft as possible.  I'm pretty sure you're better off (except for speed penalty) with whatever fuel loadout gives you as little AFT as possible + a DT, as far as maneuvering is concerned.  The DT is forward of even the FWD tank, iirc.

Lusche is right, the DT doesn't hurt at all. I usually up with either 1/2 or 3/4 internal plus the DT depending on distance to the fight. (if 3/4 internal, then I burn internal down to 1/2 before switching to the DT) The Dora's much less of a brick once you get below 1/2 internal and ditch the DT.

What is the flight time of a 109G or K if a Dora only gets 27 minutes? Something must be wrong with the fuel burn rate.

Burn's at 2x in the MA.

[Lusche]

What is the flight time of a 109G or K if a Dora only gets 27 minutes?

About the same.K-4 has 27 mins at full military power / sea level at takeoff.

[Boozeman]

Boozeman: My films in my first post are similar what i tried to do in a Ta with no luck. The thing is, when i fly the 152, i feel nervous, timid, no confidence. When i fly the A5 i feel as if nothing is going to shoot me down, and i fly aggressively to the limit because I know what my A5 can do and how she performs in certain situations.

I watched the "goodponyfight" film. If you had been in a Ta with the proper confidence, you could have ended the fight easily by around the 5 min mark.
The thing is, with the 152 you can afford to fight in a very aggressive way, even more than with the A5. Its more docile and offers (much) better performance in most disciplines. Just get really familiar with it. The results will be impressive.

     

[BnZs]

You should take the A5 up, 100 Clean, dual 20mms only, no MG/FF's. They're horrible. A5 can and will turn with alot of A/C. Just know your limitation and know when you're bleeding to much E and take the fight Vertical.

MG/FFs with full clip increase the gross weight of the A5 by about 2% at 25% fuel load out. They suck, but 60 extra rocks are 60 extra rocks.

A5 turns a little worse than the P-51D and the P-51D turns worse than practically everything else.

An A5 in late-war is probably the single best plane to take if you find the game insufficiently challenging, seeing as how it is inferior in both angles and energy tactics to most. Much more so than with the vaunted P-40/SpitI/HurriI/ "challenge" planes which can at least own many members of the LW set in an angles fight.

[BnZs]

  An overboosted A5 with cowl guns removed would compete.  It'd be worth a slight perk price.. 

Surely not in an arena with unperked Spit16s and Lalas. But any improvement to the 190A line would be wonderful.

[bj229r]

"1/2" meaning fwd + as little aft as possible.  I'm pretty sure you're better off (except for speed penalty) with whatever fuel loadout gives you as little AFT as possible + a DT, as far as maneuvering is concerned.  The DT is forward of even the FWD tank, iirc.Burn's at 2x in the MA.

This may have already been mentioned, but the hooky things that hold drop-tanks/ord on LW rides cost as much as 5 knots after ord/drop expended on due to drag of afore-mentioned hooky things...I tested it offline a year or 3 ago

[Nilsen]

I fly em all minus the dora. Prefer A8 slightly over A5.

[MjTalon]

A8 is a bit faster than the A5 but I'll take maneuverability over top speed anyday. 

[Wingnutt]

at full flaps the A5 will handily outmaneuver a spit16 in a stall fight.

[MjTalon]

at full flaps the A5 will handily outmaneuver a spit16 in a stall fight.

shhhh. Don't tell the spit drivers that. 

[Die Hard]

at full flaps the A5 will handily outmaneuver a spit16 in a stall fight.

Not if the Spit drops flaps.

[MjTalon]

Not if the Spit drops flaps.

you'll be long dead before that happens. 

[Die Hard]

Why would I be dead?

[MjTalon]

Why would I be dead?

Depends on the situation, not saying you specifically Die Hard. Just talking about the average situation, spitfire 16s tend to take MG151s poorly.