F18 incorrect maximun speed.

[JRM]

Hi

 

F18 is underpowered this because cant reach the 1915 km/h ath 40000 feet according to the F18 C Wiki specs

 

This is something that need to be corrected NOW, the current F18 reach only to 1845 km/h or much less at 40,000, so please ED team fix this for us who buyed this module....it souldnt be complicated!!!

Edited June 19, 2020 by JRM

[AndyJWest]

WIKIPEDIA MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY

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Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer

 

As for performance in DCS, it will depend, as with the real world, on aircraft configuration, and on atmospheric conditions.

[JRM]

O so I guess that this post is dismmissed, i already reach the 1915 km/h but this withouth pylons...its that accurate?

[AndyJWest]

O so I guess that this post is dismmissed, i already reach the 1915 km/h but this withouth pylons...its that accurate?

 

Possibly. But without a better source for actual performance figures, stating the conditions and configuration, there is no way to be sure.

[G.J.S]

Generally, aircraft manufacturers give maximum speeds attained during IDEAL conditions.

For example, as cold as possible atmospheric, lightest possible aircraft weight, no external protuberances etc.

 

Take the F-15 “Streak Eagle” attempt.

That was a severely stripped down eagle, and most of the climb figures attained were given in McDonnell sales brochures as indicative of the production aircraft.

Yet line F-15’s cannot attain those figures at all.

 

But the figures are what wins contracts.

[Mikeck]

It’s only 70km/h. Even if wiki is right...you don’t think things like headwinds, air temperature or fuel quality could provide a 70km/h variation? Hell, I bet there are f-18s that are faster or slower than other F-18s just based on mechanical age

[Mars Exulte]

ED, why don't you ever just Google stuff? You don't think of this? Your PAYING CUSTOMERS have to do this for you?!!1!!1 You can afford 3d laser scanners, government documents, pilots, and flight engineers, but you can't take five seconds to pound your sausages into a Wikipedia search bar and verify all that stuff? Wtf, manz?!!1!1

[speed-of-heat]

Hi

 

F18 is underpowered this because cant reach the 1915 km/h ath 40000 feet according to the F18 C Wiki specs

 

This is something that need to be corrected NOW, the current F18 reach only to 1845 km/h or much less at 40,000, so please ED team fix this for us who buyed this module....it souldnt be complicated!!!

 

Pretty sure this goes in the rivet counting folder.

[Eviscerador]

Hi

 

F18 is underpowered this because cant reach the 1915 km/h ath 40000 feet according to the F18 C Wiki specs

 

This is something that need to be corrected NOW, the current F18 reach only to 1845 km/h or much less at 40,000, so please ED team fix this for us who buyed this module....it souldnt be complicated!!!

Even if you are right (which I don't think you are) a plane only reach his top speed on factory tests in clean configuration and low fuel. And in some cases stripped of all the draggy stuff like pylons, antenna, ECM pods etc...

 

Hell, in ground attack config the hornet is barely supersonic so who cares.

[NoJoy]

This works different from just looking how a certain airplane 'performs' within some Wiki-charts. Just my thoughts...

 

 

DCS is a simulation we all know. So they programmed a physics-engine to get as close as possible to the real-thing. Which is really complex, what we all know as well...But the thing is - and I'm not a programmer in any ways - there're always has to be compromises and arrangements to be found to balance between system performance and 'playability' and further more.

 

So guessing that the physics-engine ranges from ground to even above 40.000ft and there are at some point lacking 40-something knots because it doesn't meet and scale the everchanging real-world atmospheric conditions is - I'm sorry to say very unnecessary in any means.

 

And wiki is just not the most reliable source of information. As mentioned above there is quite more to know how these figures were met.

 

Atmospheric conditions, which engine in which state of development, at what weight, how was the speed measured...

 

Guess we have some real things to sort out