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Originally Posted by Flanker35M
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Well, for you guys complaining of the trim. Have you ever cared to look at the TRIM GAUGE in the Spitfire cockpit? I flew the Sissyfire and trimmed for fast cruise, the needle was less than half the range of the gauge and with less speed close to 0 position. And when had the trim at around 30% of the gauge reading the elevator was at roughly same position as in the photo above. I use trim on a slider, not tapping a key. Compare to FW190 that has the trim gauge too just aft of the throttle marked with an "alpha" sign. In Sissyfire the gauge is below the gear lamp indicator on left side.
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I don't know what are you implying by your post, but the comparison with FW shows that for a trimmed flight at 100% throttle, FW shows very small displacement of the needle, and it surely needs much less trim than the Spitfire.
I don't know who is a vintage plane pilot here, but as far as I know, a plane never needs much trim for a cruise flight. If you need to trim your plane so much for a cruise flight, it is a very bad design. People can hate the Spitfire here as much as they want, but it was a very well designed airplane, which is confirmed if nothing else then just by its longevity in service.
I don't think that TD should base the FM of a spit on a few photos of in-flight spitfire; and that doesn't explain the fact that it rolls like crazy all the time to the right.
Still no comment from TD on this. I would say they compiled 4.10 with a wrong version of the FM, that's all.