A newbies impression of the 109 and spit

[gimpy117]

Honestly, I'm not really impressed with the me, only because the spit seems to be a clown wagon. I don't know if im over turning the me-109, but to me it seems even the spit Ia can toy with 2 aircraft (did it against a Bf-110 and Me-109) and still came out on top. It just turns so darn well without stalling, which just seems suspect to me. I know it had "the better turn rate", but the spit seems really easy to make fly it's best rather than the me 109.
I just don't get it...to me it just seems like an aircraft with the proper difficulty of a fighter is pitted against a Cessna 172 that can make good speed and has .308 guns. I really don't know if this is realistic or not...but it just seems dubious to me. I think both planes would be more evenly matched if the spit wasn't so brain dead easy to fly, and it actually took effort to pull high AoA turns in the spit like it seems to in the 109. It just seems like night and day. The Me-109 you have to think about turn rates, and not bleeding energy to stay in the air...and the spit is more like "whats energy again I've got pretty wings and a Merlin remember!"

[Robo.]

Do you mean Spitfire Mk.II or Mk.I?

[robtek]

He wrote about the spit 1a.

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by robtek

He wrote about the spit 1a.

It just said 'Spit' at the time I was reading it, sorry.

Anyway, the 2 German pilots were not very good then.

[Osprey]

They must've been idiots.

Try it post patch and have more than one flight.

[gimpy117]

I'm speaking about the Spit Ia or really all the spits. I think it's too easy to fly in general. Not really too fast, but just too easy in general to skillfully maneuver. I suppose I wasn't clear as to what i was talking of

lets put it this way:

In ROF the Camel has also been characterized as having a very light and touchy elevator, this makes the camel the most agile plane in the game...but also tricky to fly...yet rewarding. Currently with my limited experience with the spit it seems to not have touchy elevators, but just effective everything controls.

I dunno, I was reading reports from German pilots saying: (paraphrasing) "was on par with the ME-109 or inferior, unless flown by an exceptional pilot". Now, I just jumped in the thing and played around in the mud, with garbage tactics when i knew i should be dead...and won...flying circles around these guys...and I'm no master pilot as far as i know.

[ATAG_Snapper]

Hi gimpy117!

Hope you can join us sometime on the ATAG server -- be sure to have Teamspeak installed!

Snapper

[ATAG_Doc]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Snapper

Hi gimpy117!

Hope you can join us sometime on the ATAG server -- be sure to have Teamspeak installed!

Snapper

What he said.

[~Deacon]

Also, I do fly on the Atag server. and against other planes

You currently stand at 29 "entries" on ATAG server, with 11 kills + 12 deaths.

I fly the Spit 1a a lot...a whole lot, I fly only on ATAG. Come fly the Spit 1a a bit more on ATAG as I am sure that your impression will change when you go against Mr. X, notafinger, Little D, vit unit, Recoilfx, etc. I could go on with names but it would be pointless.

As you said, you're new and inexperienced, go up vs. an Experten and they will OWN you in the Spit 1a. The only card you hold in the Spit 1a is turning...that's it. It's slow, can't climb to save itself, can't dive, can't do anything but turn.

It really sucks when you've got your throttle & pitch wide open and watch the 109's just climb away and not a damn thing you can do about it. Put your tail between your legs, dive, and start to turn because you're going to die as soon as they hammerhead your ass...

Given that, I have 3 words...YOU GOT LUCKY.

Be quite careful what you post and what kind of flame war you look to start.

[AKA_Tenn]

Originally Posted by ~Deacon

Be quite careful what you post and what kind of flame war you look to start.

lol yea he was flaming on the atag server last night about how the 109 can't turn with it haha