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Originally Posted by Grand_Armee
In all the books I've read, all of the documentaries I've seen, in some 30-odd years of studying WWII, I've seen one picture of an E-1 purportedly flying during BoB. I would love to know where you get this information, please.
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I'm not sure which books you are reading but this information is easily available, there's rough info even on wikipedia.
I'm with the threadstarter. I'm no master but I'm not crap either and I find my online experience often frustrating because red have inferior machines. If we had a Spit with a CSP then it would be a different matter, but we don't.
I'm not entirely convinced about the overheat either. The pilot notes in the Spit suggest you can run for 10 mins on fine pitch full boost, but you can't do this in game, you'll knacker the engine. The oil heat flies up very fast - is this realistic? I don't see the MkV's at Duxford blowing oil gaskets as they taxi around.
Seems you have to run with the rad fully open too. All in all it leads to inferior performance and I find that even with advantage all the 109 needs to do is run straight, they can take a whole magazine from astern - one luftie in our crew said he outran 2 Spitfires straight and level with oil over the screen and rudder only (thus slipping like hell) but still managed 470kmph. Another time I watched him fight 2 Spits for 5 mins with a wing on fire, he shot 1 down and got home safely.
It could just be me being lazy and not spending the time to test performance, it could be I don't get the best out of the aeroplane, but that has to be the same for others in 109's too and they don't seem to struggle. I am looking forward to the FM's getting an overhaul, the E-1's being introduced, the 12lbs boost and the CSP. I'm worried though that with the LW ego's getting a boost right now that when they are reeled in they will complain and 1C will bow to pressure and make inaccuracies in the FM's to appease them.
I don't care if the Spitfire is crap, I just want it accurate.