13.09.2008, 05:19
Hello everyone, I am new to this website and am a newish noob IL-2 Multi player with a noob question.
I was playing tonight on the AAA multi server and observed something that had made me wonder many times playing the AI on IL-2. Here is what happened:
A P-38 zoomed below me, I was in the La-7. I did a split S and noticed that the P-38 dropped altitude to pick up speed and was flying tree top as I finished my split S. Myself being higher than the P-38 considerably, I dropped my nose and picked up speed fast to give him a chase as he was heading to our Airfield.
Now this is where my question comes in. I was chasing him at about 620 Km/hr and my plane was starting to shake while trying to maintain the speed. I kept up that speed as best as I could and even at that speed I was EASILY losing distance to him even though even though he did not have the initial advantage to pick up speed in a dive. The chase went on for a couple of minutes before I caught him as he climbed.
I had dropped the pitch of the propellers to about 50% and at the time I took off I was only carrying 25% fuel load so that must not be the factor. The P-38 was carrying rockets!!
I notice this over and over again that planes routinely fly faster than me and I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Mind you that I am a sort of noob when it comes to IL-2. I have no problems getting my speed to 500 km/hr but even with those speeds sometimes I cannot even catch bombers at the same altitude as me. Sometimes even if I am going 510+ km/hr planes manage to climb and catch me which I can never seem to do to others .
Could someone post some tips or advice on how to speed the plane up to catch others please?
End of story: the P-38 finally reached the airfield and dropped some rockets and pulled up at which point I was finally able to catch him and shoot at him as he climbed 45 degrees.
Thanks in advance for your help Gents.
I was playing tonight on the AAA multi server and observed something that had made me wonder many times playing the AI on IL-2. Here is what happened:
A P-38 zoomed below me, I was in the La-7. I did a split S and noticed that the P-38 dropped altitude to pick up speed and was flying tree top as I finished my split S. Myself being higher than the P-38 considerably, I dropped my nose and picked up speed fast to give him a chase as he was heading to our Airfield.
Now this is where my question comes in. I was chasing him at about 620 Km/hr and my plane was starting to shake while trying to maintain the speed. I kept up that speed as best as I could and even at that speed I was EASILY losing distance to him even though even though he did not have the initial advantage to pick up speed in a dive. The chase went on for a couple of minutes before I caught him as he climbed.
I had dropped the pitch of the propellers to about 50% and at the time I took off I was only carrying 25% fuel load so that must not be the factor. The P-38 was carrying rockets!!
I notice this over and over again that planes routinely fly faster than me and I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Mind you that I am a sort of noob when it comes to IL-2. I have no problems getting my speed to 500 km/hr but even with those speeds sometimes I cannot even catch bombers at the same altitude as me. Sometimes even if I am going 510+ km/hr planes manage to climb and catch me which I can never seem to do to others .
Could someone post some tips or advice on how to speed the plane up to catch others please?
End of story: the P-38 finally reached the airfield and dropped some rockets and pulled up at which point I was finally able to catch him and shoot at him as he climbed 45 degrees.
Thanks in advance for your help Gents.