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Originally Posted by akuma
Can anyone help me with this, I always seem to come out second best in turning fights.
I understand if you go in full blast WEP on your turning circle will be huge, and I understand that by dropping the power, and adding a touch of rudder you'll turn harder, but I still seem to come off second best as other people seem to maintain better energy and come out inside my turn.
I've seen this when using the same, and different aircraft so its not just a case of X plane has a better turn than Y.
Any ideas?
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It's not about knowing your angles and aircraft (well it is once you fix your problem), it's your control surface sensitivity setting in the options - for whatever reason, they were programmed so that max deflection is reduced when you turn down sensitivity - to me, making the curve exponential would soften it up around center and achieve a better effect.
So anyways, make sure your sensitivity is at MAX in options. If you fly a plane that stalls way easily with this turned up, then adjust from there, otherwise - keep it at max or you will be out-turned by people flying the same plane as you with their's maxed out on sensitivity.
I had the same problem for awhile and couldn't figure out for about a week what the hell was going on with 109g6's out-turning a La-5fn, I maxed sensitivity and ta-da - no more 109's out-turning me, in fact they are easily out turned in La series.
Also, 109's fly better and turn better with sensitivity cranked up (IMO).
P51's and FW190's - not so much, I wouldn't recomend these maxed out.
Documentation to the effect telling us what sensitivity does to max deflection would have been nice btw.