High altitude flight & beta patch
 

I haven't tried the beta patch yet but could someone test the high altitude handling of the planes? Currently it's pretty much impossible to fly at higher altitudes because of the shaking of the cockpit and engine misfiring (or am i just a total noob who can't fly?) It get's really nauseating after a while and i dont think the real planes handled like that.. But im not a real pilot so what do i know. Thanks in advance!

I agree with you. It seems that this beta patch flying at high altitude is slightly better, but the epileptic shaking is still there. However the people here don't care about this problem, are they all not using full CEM?

f.e.
in a 110 i never reached 7000m over water; boostpressure drops dramatically above 4000m and in 6000m i got under 1bar and speedloss is immense (250km/h IAS)

Yep! I have been wondering why there are no threads about this but plenty of threads about other problems.

there have been they just keep fading away, seems most people don't care/haven't noticed.

i think most people get a nose bleed if they go over 10,000ft:(

I think everyone is preoccupied flying over london and counting fps

first: the people fight at sea level, this happens because you can start fighting at 15.000ft but you'll stop it at ground or sea level, where the engine seems running good without stuttering (engine stuttering).
second: many virtual pilots believe that engine stutters is turbulence, but you can verify this very easily: throttle down and magically no more "turbulence", so this is an engine business. The turbulence affects the plane at max and min throttle.
Third: other people think the enginge stutter as the typical cut-out when you pull "g" up or down, but this damned engine stutter is there at "zero g", without any shaking on the cloche flying over 10.000ft.

If you can reach 18.000ft in full CEM (and full epileptic shaking), then you can decide for a level flight, and you can reduce the rpm at about 2000 (max prop pitch at min. throttle), using the lean mixture, but this cause, if possible, more epileptic shaking.

Yes, and the shaking happens with both German and British airplanes. Seems like it's somehow connected to the manifold pressure..

fuel mixture, i think.....

certainly in the RAF planes, its supposed to be auto rich, and auto lean, seems the auto part isn't working.....

Hmm, yes, that seems like a more plausible explanation.

Spit IIa,CEM, nice level climb to 16000, but from then on engine problems shaking loss of airspeed, lean mix, got to 18000 just about but then big bug was suddenly at about 300 feet with a blown engine ! Seems the game just wont accept you being over about 18000.

spit II (P 7280, test sept '40) had a ceiling of 37,600,

its a joke at the moment.

Haha, thats the truth. Even in IL-2 1946, you would hardly run into people higher than 10K. And if you did, it was a good chance that pilot knows what he is doing. I always felt going into a combat area below 10K feet was like going into battle on the ground with just one clip of ammo for your rifle. You need to be able to have multiple types of attacks. Not just get on his six and shoot.

The issues with high altitude flying have been brought to the devs direct attention as a HIGH priority issue to fix.

Thought it was just me until I found this thread. Good to hear there's a fix on the way - thanks devs.

I am not alone, not being able to get my wheezing, old puffer Hurricane to climb! Has anyone gone from gear up to 20k plus in any crate in this sim yet?

Great news, thanks for posting.

Awesome! Thanks!

It seems like the fix didn't make it into the new patch. I just tested it quickly and the Bf 109 still shakes like hell @ 7km. Oh well, i guess i'll have to wait another few weeks before i can really start to enjoy this game :(

Thinking of trademarking the phrase "CLOD_Hopping" to describe how it jumps around as it climbs out on anything but full throttle :evil: