The planes in AH WWI arena fly to fast in the case of the DR.1 and the Sopwith camel while the D.VII is a dog in AH. Look at Rise of Flight modeling and you will see a more correct speed variations along with some very good training films but it is not an on line game that I saw.
who's to say which WWI Flight Game is more accurate than the other without some authorative people doing a comparison and testing/recording and comparing the proper data of each WWI Game...... which does it really matter? who's to say ROF got the modeling right? who's to say AH-WWI got the modeling right..... although I would put my money on the HTC team every time verses any other Flight Sim Team/Company......
If you look at a few sources you will see speeds a few mph difference but these speeds seem the in the middle.
1 D.VII speed 120 mph with a dive speed of 165mph with the 160hp Mercedes D.III engine
2 DR.1 speed 95 mph with a dive speed of 140mph with the 110hp Oberursel UR.11 engine.
3 Sopwith camel 113mph is the top speed. I saw no dive speed information.
The above information came from a French flight report from 1918 sited in another post and Janes Aircraft of WWI and German War Birds by K.Munson.
would you mind posting a link to any sources you are getting your facts/data from, unless it is a book, like above the book names/authors is sufficient.....but 99% of the people will have no way of knowing what it might say in a book, but scanned/pdf'ed reports are very welcomed....
This is all a mute point anyway as I do not think HTC will spend more time and resources on the WWI arena with so few players. It is to bad as I was hoping the WWI Arena would be a success. It is just a gunnery range for the DR.1s as it is now.
if you want to know what HTC's reasoning for the WWI arena's & WWI Era planes then you can find it all here on these boards...... I do not think HTC will give up on the WWI Arena/planes... that part of the game exists for alot more reasons than just a "bb shoot out" contest against motorized flying kites
TC