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Just as a comparison here is what DCS has to say about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVH4FiaSWqA&feature=youtube_gdata Note: it took about a half second longer for the F-15 to get its afterburner going, which is why it doesnt start overtaking the Flanker until 1700ft or so. Aircraft are set to equal fuel weight in lbs. Both aircraft started at 100ft and 150kts. I also did the comparison based on fuel weight as a function of time. The Flanker consumes more gas than the eagle per unit of time(based on testing at constant altitude at both 10000ft and sea-level.) and requires 15,000lbs of fuel to fly the same amount of time as a 100% fuel eagle. when I did the test like this, the Eagle won by a even larger measure.

Except it will. The Eagle has a better T/W at any altitude at any comparable fuel load.

Just one correction, I agree with everything else. A Eagle will out climb a Flanker at ANY altitude.

Dude, if you change the scale you cannot complain. The Flankers wing is much smaller, of different construction, and almost certainly made of different materials. The principal is only the same in the sense that some amount of wing flex should occur. However, that video doesn nothing to show that the current model isnt accurate.

Please yes. F-22

All I want is for ED to make a modification allowing for 75" boost

Honestly, Im glad oleg and ilya are gone. I trust ED to make good by the numbers FM's that arent biased. I dont trust oleg, or anyone associated with il2, because of il2.

How? weight should only affect speed as a function of time. It should not have any bearing on maximum speed, only Thrust vs Drag should affect top speed.

. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long delirious burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Is there a way to easily modify, like via a lua, missile or SFM aircraft thrust?

Also, weight has absolutely nothing to do with top speed. And, if you didnt have weapons on the pylons at takeoff, DCS acts as if there were no pylons on it at all. The 3d model just doesnt change.

This might be the case with DCS, but the CPU not making any difference is a myth, especially when crossing architecture lines. Most benchmarks on the internet supporting this claim are based on single-player tests. However, multi-player benchmarks have shown that CPU power differences, even ones assumed modest(like going from a 2500k to a 4670k) can pay large dividends.

Nice kills. They seem like a very unpleasant lot.

ok i completely forgot about this lol. Just give me a time and a server.

False analogy. It is reasonable to assume the germans had screwdrivers because they are a common tool, and would have been necessary for maintenance. Simply not having documentation of something doesnt mean I just get to assume it existed because of a chaotic situation at the end of the war. By your logic, I am now assuming that the Germans were operating at 4.65ata, because you know, reasons.

Yeah this is what I was saying too. They arent operational orders, they are plans for the future.

Ah yes, it appears I misread that. However, like you said, the overall point is valid. The only document that even hints at the use of 1.98ata is an incomplete one. The thing that keeps being missed by certain persons here is that it is clear that the document is merely a statement of an ideal situation at best. This "order" wasn't issued until 20 March 1945. A month after this was put out, the war was over. Even if this was a operational order telling these units to convert, which it is not, we have no reason to believe that it was actually carried out. Modifications would have to have been carried out, and given the game of hop-scotch the Luftwaffe was playing with the ever shrinking front line, and the casualties it was taking, it is improbable that anyone found the time or resources to actually do this. More to the point, there are no operational records of 1.98ata being used, which seems to be lost on people. The development in the equipment status of day fighter units is based on the standard types laid down in the emergency program and anticipates : for Bf 109 units : K-4 for FW 190 units : D-9, D-12 with changeover to Ta 152 H and C With the arrival of the Ta 152 and it`s assignment to FW 190 Gruppen will result in an improvement in the equipment status of these units. Bf 109 development will essentially conclude with the K-4 and will inevitably lead to the conversion of Bf 109 units - those not scheduled for disbandment - to jet fighters. Homogeneity of the Geschwader is urgent to be strived for, combination of similar types is temporary and because of the levels of production to be accepted . Above, going off of kurfurst's own translation, it is quite apparent that this is a theoretical statement of possible intent, not a directive to change anything.

I could go into more detail on your logic here, but ill make it simple. It is not logical, especially historically, to assume something is a fact just because you cannot prove it isnt. I could assume you are a sapient swamp wallaby, since I don't have any proof you aren't one, for example.

Aside from the deliberate editing, it should be evident to anyone reading either these links that the information provided are not orders issued to units to statements of intent. These pages do not prove the use of 1.98ata any more that they prove the replacement of K-4's with jet fighters, or any of the other speculated improvements. For example, by the time This order was supposedly given, at least one of the units Kurfurst thinks used 1.98ata had effectively ceased to exist. John Weal wrote of JG 27, the principal Me 109 unit in the Spitfire XIV's main area of operations, during 1945: As one of the few Jagdgeschwader remaining on the western front (the majority having been rushed eastwards in a vain attempt to repel the Red tide), JG 27's activities were curtailed by a new OKL directive severely restricting fighter operations in the west. This permitted missions to be flown "only in those situations promising a real chance of success". Also many of the Geschwader's ground personnel were now being transferred to infantry duties. 46 Despite their best efforts, however, so overwhelming was the enemy's air superiority over north-west Germany by mid-March 1945 that all four Gruppen were ordered to retire from their bases in the Osnabrück region and withdraw nearer to the centre of the rapidly shrinking Reich. During the third week of March Stab, I., II. and III./JG 27 departed Rheine, Hopsten and Hesepe as instructed. But fate overtook Hauptmann Reinert's IV Gruppe before it could evacuate Achmer... 180 B-24's targeted Achmer, and the strafing by fighters which followed, destroyed all but one of IV./JG 27's 38 remaining fighters. ... It was considered impracticable to re-equip the Gruppe amid the chaos that was Germany in the last six weeks of the war. At the end of March IV./JG 27 was therefore officially disbanded. 47

I'm waiting on my oculus rift! :)

Which is why I've always wondered why DCS doesn't use some kind of pixel/size enchantment so that distant objects use more pixels. Every other sim ive played does this.

If were talking spitfire, you wont have to look hard for German pilots regarding the spitfire as a doom machine. I'm a P-51 person, and even I admit that the Spitfire was the best dogfighter made during the war PERIOD. Mr. Williams uses the Spitfire anecdotes within the limits of what they can be used for. There is plenty of German documentation noted in those articles, including comments by German pilots or commanders about their situation. There is nothing wrong with that website. It contains a wider assortment of documents from many different nations on many different aircraft, and it is constantly updated....unlike some 109 sites I've seen.

If were gonna have at it, I'm using a P-51.

Kurfurst's cite is rubbish, based on the very metrics you just posited.

WAIT, does this mean the F-15 is getting DAS?