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That all seems to make sense. Anyone care to explain how earlier marks without pumps or pressurised tanks got to high altitude though? How did a mark 2 with a merlin XII get so high without vaporisation? Could it be that the increase in fuel pressure needed with the strombergs obviously requires more suction from the pump thus lowering the fuel pressure in the tank more than the normal carb equipped merlins? Chris

Spitfire elevator is very powerful and you can induce a stall with partial stick throw. Easy to do if at low speed and even easy to induce a high speed stall if you just haul away on it. The perfect advert for a force feedback stick if I ever saw one! Chris

Fantastic guide! Thanks. One point though, using flaps to help turning? Im assuming that is an oversight. Flaps in the spit are all or nothing barn doors that are more like airbrakes than a useful way of increasing lift in combat. Unless I've been mistaken for years! Chris

Yeah I get the spit tanks. I wasn't really comparing the two spits, it was more a wish of how you can fill tanks on aircraft that have multiple tank positions. Just wanting dcs to be better where it can improve! So is that definite? No rear tanks? The manual clearly shows them but haven't seen anything saying there aren't any. Thanks for the input. Chris

It's more comprehensive than just weight or percentage, you can actually point to a tank with the mouse and roll the mouse wheel to increase the quantity in each tank. For example the b17 you can fill any tank as much or as little as you want as you get a visual indication of how much fuel is in each tank. It is very useful for aircraft with multiple tanks spread throughout the fuselage and/or wings. I was hoping there was a similar way of filling each tank in dcs or at least knowing if there was fuel in the rear. I know about the spits top and bottom tank and how they feed. I could do without the fancy visual display, even just having a percentage quantity for each tank would be useful. Assuming of course that this spit has rear tanks which I'm not sure has been confirmed either way! Chris

I didn't say there was! :) I said you can fuel different tanks. There is a graphic so you can see exactly where the fuel is in each tank in any aircraft. So in the mustang or b17 or spit or whatever you can see exactly how the CoG will change and can decide where you want your fuel. My question is can this be done in dcs and also does this mk9 have rear tanks modelled? Kind of hard to tell from just a percentage bar! Cheers Chris

Is there any way to select which tanks are filled? There is only the slider with a percentage but I'd like to know if you can just fill the front tanks? I'm assuming by not having fuel in the rear fuselage tanks there will be more longitudinal stability when taxing and take off/landing. For example, in prepar3d with a2a birds you can fuel each tank and I wondered if the same holds true for dcs or is there only a percentage slider? Chris