Styggron wrote:
Sorry not sure what you mean by giving you a yell, if you mean flying online, sorry I don't use FSX online.
Maybe I am in for a rude shock if/when I put on accu-sim ? I am still puzzled as to how the myth that this is the hardest plane to fly came from.
Also if you put on the armaments, (I have only flown the IIb at present) can you fire the guns ?
G'day Mate,
If you are physically TRAVELLING to Western Australia give me a yell and if you want you are more than welcome to come to mine and have a fly of the Spitfire Simulator I've built. ( https://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewto ... &start=270 )
Trim. Think of trim state plotted on a graph.. speed sloping up left to right from the o point and lift starting a little way right (say 80mph) but sloping steeper. At the point they cross, you won't need to use any trim. The further up you go, the more they diverge and the more down trim you will need. The further DOWN you go, the more up trim you need.
There will be a slightly different one of those graphs for each nose attitude in my example but in reality what you are REALLY plotting is Speed and Angle of Attack.. as lift is actually a function of each of those.
Accusim adds the CONSEQUENCES for doing things wrong, so you may or may not get a shock, depending on how you are flying. If you are treating her right then it will not make any difference to the health/performance of the aircraft whether you fly with or without. If you treat her wrong, then without, you're fine. WITH you're a smoking heap on the ground.
Guns, no they don't work BUT the ammo weight affects performance. A2A don't do cheap "smoke and mirrors" effects like flashing guns that don't actually do anything. more focus on real effects of things that CAN be done well in FSX. TacPac does, I believe make weapons functional with some customising.. but I haven't and wouldn't ever bother personally.
140 IAS .. indicated airspeed. ASI in the Spitfire is calibrated in MPH. No calc necessary. 140 IAS IS 140 MPH.
Yep, I leave the vent open. Fogging in different climates is a different phenomenon FSX doesn't handle weather particularly well, at least not in these subtle differences. The Spitfire ALWAYS fogs up in winter when I fly where I am. So does the C172. But in nearly 20 years of real flying I have had 1 instance of the windshield fogging up and THAT was towelled off before we left the ground, to stay off for the entire flight. Just leave the vent open and write it off to experience. The fogging model works perfectly, at least where Scott tested it for real.
Don't worry about going "off the gauge" the engine power got WAY ahead of the changes in gauges. Even the Spitfire II was boost gauged to 8lb sq in LONG after 12 was possible. Full normal throttle Spitfire I will go off the gauge but IS actually 6.25 or thereabouts, perfectly allowable. 12 lbs sq in boost cutout does not show any higher reading on the gauge. Just "feel" between 4 and 6.25 and over that, you will be shaking so much your teeth will tell you an approximate boost figure (the number that fall out per minute )
best
Darryl