As you advance through the missions you will be promoted and your flight group will follow you at what ever speed you dictate. I found the inability to 'keep up' a problem at first but you learn how to manage the ac and it gets easier for all the reasons set out above. When I first started flying the missions I found using the 'time skip' function (needs to be mapped to a key!) helped me to catch up with the rest of the flight when I was falling far behind. The Automatic pilot takes over and I could hear a distinct change in the engines tone when I emerged back into the game. I made the adjustments to prop pitch and throttle to get the same sort of engine sound and began to understand how the various settings affected the flight speed along with correct trim of the ac, altidude v mixture/supercharger, etc. Funnily enough, I dont' even think about it any more!
|