Is it me or

[chardly38]

After going from 1.2.0 to 1.2.4 the performance of the a 10 sucks. The climb rate is half of what it was. The speeds are slower. It seems that you are going slower at lower levels than in 1.2.0. Or 1.1.1.1.

[Nealius]

Performance depends on how much stuff you got hanging from the wings.

[XtraChrisP]

Also it seems like fuel consumption is higher. I used to burn 5k an hour cruising at 10,000 MSL now it's over 6k

[IonicRipper]

Haven't played in a while but I did a simple target practice mission just yesterday with 8 Mk82's and didn't notice any drop in performance. I actually thought it climbed better then i remembered.

[chardly38]

The same mission in 1.2.0 I have a better climb rate than 1.2.4.

It takes me twice as long to get to 5000ft with the same loadout.

[Kaiza]

That doesn't sound right. Did you check the temperature?

 

I've played some missions with crazy hot temps which the a-10 really struggles in.

[Revelation]

There was also a change to the drag modeling on the FM in one of the patches after 1.2.0. CBUs now have a higher drag coefficient.

 

A search will pull up the thread and the discussion on it.

[Konrad Friedrich]

You are in >sim mode<?

Not that you accidently switched to >game mode< - in game mode the engine output is turned down a fair bit.

[chardly38]

I did a test ( to the best of my ability ) in 1.1.1.1 and 1.2.4 Made a mission in 1.1.1.1 and saved it in 1.2.4 and here you go. I took off at the same time an at 5000ft paused and took a screen shot. Also here are some tracks. Maby its just me. But the one thing i do know is that my FSP at the same airport are not as good in 1.2.4 compared to 1.1.1.1.

 

Im in sim mode

[chardly38]

1.2.0 track is from 1.1.1.1 named it wrong.

[Eddie]

Having watched your track, I'm not surprised you can't climb. You can't just take off, stick the FPM at 7 degrees with no regard to airspeed, hit path hold and expect the jet to keep climbing. Especially with that payload. Your drag index in that track is 11.28, which is bloody high.

 

But that said,I took control of your track and happily (if very slowly) climbed to FL150.

Climb.trk

[chardly38]

Normally After take off I climb out to 1000 fpm but if you tell me that drag is now modeled more in 1.2.4 than 1.2.0 then it is what it is. Just wished I could get the FSP from A10 standalone in World

[Nealius]

I have no problem climbing out to 2000 fpm but I stick to more realistic payloads and 75-80% fuel.

[chardly38]

What would be more of a realistic payload.

[Nealius]

2x AGM-65s and 2x bombs, sometimes 4x bombs if I want to reduce my fuel a bit more. I try to keep it below ~42,000 lbs gross weight.

 

I need to get that drag index calculator that the 476th has.