28.03.2009, 02:16
As similar questions have started debates that degraded into flame wars, I plan to be careful and concise with my post. Since this is, if I'm not wrong, still an unanswered question, I'm gonna try again and see if someone has an answer for it.
Does anyone know the formula used by IL-2 to calculate TAS from IAS? (not real life)
I'm aware that we have some spreadsheets, good software such as bombsighttable2, reference tables, rules of thumb... I also know what a E6B is and that TAS is affected by many other variables such as air density, temperature, moisture and etc... bear in mind that I'm not looking for a good method or solution to calculate my TAS in the game.
We could also take educated guesses on how the programmers, to compensate the lack of moisture and temperature modeling, could have linked a variance to one of the other factors to alter the ADAF - Air Density Adjustment Factor, so it loses the linear characteristics the absent variables confer to it. However, before we do that, let's not loose the original question:
Does anyone know the formula used by IL-2 to calculate TAS from IAS? once again, not real life, guys.
Maybe we get lucky this time and find someone who knows that formula.
t
Does anyone know the formula used by IL-2 to calculate TAS from IAS? (not real life)
I'm aware that we have some spreadsheets, good software such as bombsighttable2, reference tables, rules of thumb... I also know what a E6B is and that TAS is affected by many other variables such as air density, temperature, moisture and etc... bear in mind that I'm not looking for a good method or solution to calculate my TAS in the game.
We could also take educated guesses on how the programmers, to compensate the lack of moisture and temperature modeling, could have linked a variance to one of the other factors to alter the ADAF - Air Density Adjustment Factor, so it loses the linear characteristics the absent variables confer to it. However, before we do that, let's not loose the original question:
Does anyone know the formula used by IL-2 to calculate TAS from IAS? once again, not real life, guys.
Maybe we get lucky this time and find someone who knows that formula.
t