29.03.2010, 18:08
Most planes with a full fuel load are pretty lousy flying airplanes. However, that doesn't mean they aren't good aircraft. The Mustang being my favorite aircraft and the plane I fly the most in IL-2 is very effective at any altitudes regardless how much fuel it takes, but that is only my opinion.
In IL-2 this is sort of my fuel layout with the P-51's razorbacks and straight backs.
[Without External Fuel Tanks]
25%-30 minutes
50%-1 Hour Ten Minutes
75%-1 Hour forty minutes
100%-2 hours fifteen minutes
As for flying the P-51, it is an effective aircraft at any altitude. Especially when there's a couple of Mustangs you can really do some devastating damage to other aircraft. The P-51 was very maneuverable, the snap roll, quick dive, tight turn and etc. The 109 will out turn the P-51 at a low speed, but at high speeds over 300 miles per hour the Mustang will out turn most aircraft, including the A6M Zero. The .50 caliber machine guns in the stock Mustangs are a bit weak and they really fall around the convergence settings. My convergence setting is 274.32 meters which is 300 yards, and that's how close you want to be when you fire at an aircraft.
Hopefully, some of this might have helped.
Blue skies,
-Doodle
In IL-2 this is sort of my fuel layout with the P-51's razorbacks and straight backs.
[Without External Fuel Tanks]
25%-30 minutes
50%-1 Hour Ten Minutes
75%-1 Hour forty minutes
100%-2 hours fifteen minutes
As for flying the P-51, it is an effective aircraft at any altitude. Especially when there's a couple of Mustangs you can really do some devastating damage to other aircraft. The P-51 was very maneuverable, the snap roll, quick dive, tight turn and etc. The 109 will out turn the P-51 at a low speed, but at high speeds over 300 miles per hour the Mustang will out turn most aircraft, including the A6M Zero. The .50 caliber machine guns in the stock Mustangs are a bit weak and they really fall around the convergence settings. My convergence setting is 274.32 meters which is 300 yards, and that's how close you want to be when you fire at an aircraft.
Hopefully, some of this might have helped.
Blue skies,
-Doodle