CoD flight test data vs. Real World flight test data

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Hey Gang

For those who know me, they know I love graphing data.. It's what I do for fun and is also something I do for a living.

With that said, I have been working on a website of mine called:

www.flightsimtesting.com

Where I have been graphing IL-2 data for some time now.. Up to now I have not bothered with CoD much, in that up to now 1C has flat out stated the CoD FMs are not finished.. So I figured why bother testing something they themselves admit is broken. But what with CoD starting to firm up it's FMs I figured it is time to add CoD data to my website..

And this time I am putting more emphasis on Real World Data (RWD).. That is to say you will be able to compare test data collected in the game to real world data.. The idea being you will be able to 'see' just how good of a job the in-game FMs are doing to simulate their real world counterparts.

With that said, the website is very BETA at the moment.. I have one real world data file uploaded for the Hurricane and one dummy Bf-109K4 real world data file uploaded. I also have a few CoD test data files that I created and uploaded.

The plan is to allow 'users' to submit their in-game test data and real world test data that I will upload to the site. For now this data will have to be submitted to me via e-mail, but eventually I plan on making it a file upload process via the website.

Also in the works is the ability to convert the CoD non-standard day data to standard day data and select which internal reference data (I or Z or calculated Density) for display, in that there is still some 'debate' as to which source should be used.

As for the website now.. it is a little confusing..

In that the Real World data files (the standard excel spreadsheet) typically has both ROC and Top Speed per Altitude data in it..

Where as the CoD test data files typically only has data for 'one' specific test type (ROC or TSPA).

For example, if you select a CoD TSPA file, the TAS graph will be valid, but the ROC graph will NOT be valid.. It is ROC data from the game, but, ROC data from a TAS test type. So, depending on how you did the test the data in the ROC graph can be very misleading! In my case, when doing a TAS test I fly as fast as I can at a specific altitude, than climb to the next altitude, well.. that results in some pretty HIGH ROC values, in that what I am doing is a ZOOM climb to the next altitude.

So, I need to come up with a way to FILTER the data based on the CoD test type. I think I will add a TEST TYPE pull down that will in turn filter the CoD files that show up in the pull down menu.

Anyway, just wanted to put it out there for people to try out and provide feedback.

PS note that the IL-2 1946 tab only has a few planes listed right now, where it typically has 600+ planes listed. It takes a lot of time to upload those 600+ files, so for now, during the CoD development I am only uploaded a few files. Once I am done with the CoD tab I will upload the 600+ files