That rang a bit of a bell with me as I've lost count of the times I've read Al Deere's book (Nine Lives). Here, from the book but abbreviated for space....

May 23rd 1940. A usual patrol at dawn, the 12th for the week, returned without incident and 74 Sqdn took over the patrol and were jumped. Their CO force landed near Calais Marck with engine trouble. Then, just before 9 a.m. Al Deere and Johnny Allen were asked to escort a Miles Master to Calais Marck for a rescue attempt. Long story short, Al Deere and Johnny Allen shot down 3 109s out of a group of about 12. Notably the 109s were turning, presumably at odds of 12:2 they thought they had an easy fight on their hands.

Al Deere drew two conclusions from this fight. One was that the 109s (presumably E's) were not able to outclimb or out-turn the Spitfire (we know of course that initial energy states could make the climb issue true and this was only his first combat). The other conclusion was that "The superior rate of climb was, however, due mostly to the type of Spitfire with which my Squadron was now equipped. Aircraft of 54 Squadron were fitted with the Rotol constant speed airscrew on which we had been doing trials when the fighting started." [presumably the German invasion of France] "Other Spitfires were, at that stage, using a two speed airscrew (ie. either fully fine ptich or fully coarse) which meant they lost performance in a sustained climb....."

Thanks, Klem. Ooops, he HAD the Rotol CSP after all. My bad! LOL

I have no excuse, I have the softcover version of "Nine Lives" on my shelf. I first read that book in 1963. Spotted the hardcover version in the tiny church library one Sunday -- seemed a far more interesting read to a nine-year-old boy than the usual tomes a church library would stock. Couldn't put it down, reread it a thousand times (guess I didn't retain much, though. ;) ). Back then I would've been flabbergasted with what a home PC and peripherals could do using a title like Cliffs of Dover forty-nine years later. Then again, so would the RAF! LOL

I wasn't "trolling".... I just wrote what I felt. I've been playing flight sims since Hellcats over the Pacific came out on the Mac, when I was like 9 years old. I've never encountered such.... Pooch screwery before, in any game. It's not like I WANT TO, or ENJOY saying these things.

The fastest way for them to make money is to fix COD. The code is all there. Maybe they should take out a loan for 250 grand and hire two programming wizards. Offer them each a one year contract for 125k salary. 10 hour work days, 6 days a week. That's what I would do. They need to go all in or call it quits.

One guy can fix bugs, the other guy can optimize the code. The smoke effects are pitiful!!! FPS drop is horrendous, that's why it's turned off for the most part. Rise of Flight has frickin heat blur mixed in with their smoke/fire effects. Come on.

B6, it's Friday tomorrow. Any chance of a patch? Or something?

If the patch or news is ready we'll publish them. But we never promised update every Friday.

Or any other Friday for that matter....

Just the questions Luthier said he would answer will do BS, 2 weeks later and he should have some very detailed and indepth answers, I am very much looking forward to them.

Not you, but Luthier did. Back in 2010 he told to give regularly friday updates again, after we suffered a long period without them.

Agree and it is very inconsistent...

Just one example....You can blow one bomber out of the sky, erupting in a fireball... and the next one in the same group will take thousands of rounds, becoming swiss cheese and fly on...

Well, I don't believe that anybody is "suffering".
We're well past that stage.
It's entertaining.
While we wait for Act II or is it a "stage left"?

This is just a brief intermission.

And the many?
Have all just stepped outside for a smoke.