31.10.2008, 10:24
Hi Fucida!
I hope you had a good birthday
The "old" A-4 was not so bad like most virt. pilots say. Spit Vb and 4© are no problem when you have an altitude advantage because the acceleration was unsatisfactorily. Even when you had the energy, the A-4 bleeded even in gentle turns.
The A-3 now has a "toxic" acceleration caused by the new historical horsepower. The agility and the handling is a little bit better. Reduced bleedig effect in getle high speed turns. The limitation now is caused by the dark grey glow of the pilot. You have to be carefully sometimes. We had to go into this direction because the spitfires are overmodeled in their agility. The rollrate of the spits is too high for example.
The maximum dive speed is a little secret (but not unhistorical). It is a little bit higher than in the old A-4 but not much. At the moment the A-3 has the late A-4 cockpit. This will be fixed soon with a new cockpit ad instruments of the year 1941-1942 (We got some parts of the Emil in the new panels). Flying with max. divespeed will be a little problem caused by this new instrument:
![[Image: instcr2.jpg]](http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/1937/instcr2.jpg)
You have to guess your speed after 800 km/h and the instrument could have deviations at high speed. We do not really know :-D So be carefully ;-)
When you take a look at the radiators (Kiemenspaltbleche), you can move them in the A-3 because the open radiators whould brake the energy too much. The holes are in the lee of the cowling. So this bleedig is a no go. We had to make a compromise. You later will see that the A-1 and the A-2 haveno cotrolled flaps :-D-
I hope you had a good birthday
The "old" A-4 was not so bad like most virt. pilots say. Spit Vb and 4© are no problem when you have an altitude advantage because the acceleration was unsatisfactorily. Even when you had the energy, the A-4 bleeded even in gentle turns.
The A-3 now has a "toxic" acceleration caused by the new historical horsepower. The agility and the handling is a little bit better. Reduced bleedig effect in getle high speed turns. The limitation now is caused by the dark grey glow of the pilot. You have to be carefully sometimes. We had to go into this direction because the spitfires are overmodeled in their agility. The rollrate of the spits is too high for example.
The maximum dive speed is a little secret (but not unhistorical). It is a little bit higher than in the old A-4 but not much. At the moment the A-3 has the late A-4 cockpit. This will be fixed soon with a new cockpit ad instruments of the year 1941-1942 (We got some parts of the Emil in the new panels). Flying with max. divespeed will be a little problem caused by this new instrument:
You have to guess your speed after 800 km/h and the instrument could have deviations at high speed. We do not really know :-D So be carefully ;-)
When you take a look at the radiators (Kiemenspaltbleche), you can move them in the A-3 because the open radiators whould brake the energy too much. The holes are in the lee of the cowling. So this bleedig is a no go. We had to make a compromise. You later will see that the A-1 and the A-2 haveno cotrolled flaps :-D-