Tempest max speed
 

I have read that the Tempest was one of the fastest allied fighters of the war. I love the aircraft but can't seem to get it over 250 mph (straight and level) except in a dive. Any help would be great thanks.

IL-2 1946 4.08

You're not mistaking True Airspeed and Indicated Airspeed are you?
At altitude there can be a significant difference between the two...
(Apologies if you already know that)

Hate to say it but from what I have read the Tempest is indeed greatly underspeed, it was a match for the 190D and any other Axis fighter, but I am pleased with what we have

Don't forget the Air Speed indicator in the Tempest reeds in Knots not MPH (100 knots is about 115 Mph)

Manoeverability?
 

Yeah, and the Tempest in this game is not very manoeverable either. Does anyone know if the real plane was such a dog?

From my experience on it (game, not real ;) ), the Tempest is a heavy plane, that needs soft handling... and, if handled "well" (mean keeping your speed up), it can black out you in no time. If you allow your plane to slow down, you're in deep trouble with it, that's certain ;)

My only problem in it is rear visibility which I find definitely bad (but, according to Closterman's "Great Show", it was 56cm wide, so I guess that the real one wasn't very good either ;) )

Read 'The Big Show' by Clostermann.The Tempest seemed to be a bit of a pig in real life.

Tempest is hard to manouver in game????? Comparing to what? Spit25?? :D
Are you guys for real? :D :D

How do you guys expect the thing to handle? What planes to you fly often as it could explain why you think the Tempest is a dog.

S!

il2compare is giving ~690km/h at 6000m for the ingame Tempest.

i had no proplem runing over 680km/h (speed over ground) level at 6000m on the crimea map.