Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted

As in the title.  Players might as well never close the canopy if it costs no speed to them, and only gives more visibility.
Same with the P-51.
P-47 and Spitfire do have some additional drag, but it's extremely little, only costing a handful of knots of top speed at SL.  The drag from an open canopy should probably be a lot higher for those.

canopy drag test.trk

  • Like 1

Hardware: T-50 Mongoose, VKB STECS, Saitek 3 Throttle Quadrant, Homemade 32-function Leo Bodnar Button Box, MFG Crosswind Pedals Oculus Rift S

System Specs: MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS, RTX 4090, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB DDR5-3600, Samsung 990 PRO

Modules: AH-64D, Ka-50, Mi-8MTV2, F-16C, F-15E, F/A-18C, F-14B, F-5E, P-51D, Spitfire Mk LF Mk. IXc, Bf-109K-4, Fw-190A-8

Maps: Normandy, Nevada, Persian Gulf, Syria, Germany

 

Posted

Agree, open canopy seems to add no drag at all in the two FW-190 versions. I close it because of the higher noise level.

LeCuvier

Windows 10 Pro 64Bit | i7-4790 CPU |16 GB RAM|SSD System Disk|SSD Gaming Disk| MSI GTX-1080 Gaming 8 GB| Acer XB270HU | TM Warthog HOTAS | VKB Gladiator Pro | MongoosT-50 | MFG Crosswind Pedals | TrackIR 5

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...