Speed Hold Magic?

[169th_DedCat]

I'm wondering if anyone has done any testing to the accuracy of the speed hold toggle in the game. I never use it, but I was flying with some friends yesterday who were, and there seemed to be a bit of magic to it. I could be mistaken though.

 

We were all flying Flankers with the same weight/fuel load. They were all using speed hold to fix their velocity, while I was using a manual throttle. The guys decided to perform a loop. I kept up with them at first and we all went into full afterburner at the same time as we pitched up, but as we neared the vertical it was clear they were maintaining much better speed than I was. I checked my gauges and my nozzles were wide open. We were following the same path (smoke was on) so I don't think differing G-loads were an issue. Maybe my timing was off, but it seemed like we were all traveling the same speed up until we started to pitch up and the burners came on.

 

Has anybody else encountered anything similar with speed hold?