What sensitibity for what plane on Aviator stick

[King Jareth]

Nice thread Benrizz.
I cant really add much only using the Spit IX and La7 and I'm still finding my way with the Spit.
La7 is full sensitivity for me, its a stable bird.

[Ancient Seraph]

For the La-7 I usually put it 1 or 2 notches down, just out of laziness for those turning battles at low speed.

[MorgothNL]

I put 5 or 6 notches down with the spit. Normally 6 with the XVI and 5 with the IX.

Does anyone fly the hurricane? when I tried it the other day, I ended up with my sensitivity 8! notches down. Because I think it flew like crap if I did not. But I think this will make it lose the turning advantage .
Any hurri people who can comment?

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by MorgothNL

I put 5 or 6 notches down with the spit. Normally 6 with the XVI and 5 with the IX.

Does anyone fly the hurricane? when I tried it the other day, I ended up with my sensitivity 8! notches down. Because I think it flew like crap if I did not. But I think this will make it lose the turning advantage .
Any hurri people who can comment?

Someone mention a hurricane


I find having both ailerons and elevators 7/12 - 8 notches down works a treat. It can perform a nice tight turn without the risk of stall, only real concern is the speed. I find that with the notches down by say only 4 or 5 it still pulls the same turn as it does with the notches down by 7 1/2-8, just adds the risk of stalling out.

[juz1]

Originally Posted by King Jareth

Nice thread Benrizz.
I cant really add much only using the Spit IX and La7 and I'm still finding my way with the Spit.
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the spit is very twitchy, and just try using the rudder in a hard turn...

useful set of av8r settings..I guess I am lazy as I turn down the sensitivity settings an extra couple on each one...
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[Lexandro]

Originally Posted by juz1

the spit is very twitchy, and just try using the rudder in a hard turn...

Tell me about it, any touch of the rudder and the thing starts slewing all over the sky. Its got to the stage that if I play Realistic and use the spit I dont use the rudder at all.

[Benrizz]

To everyone, I don't know if it is useful to say it again. But I strongly recommend to spend a least 10-20 min in free flight with the planes that you want to use to well understand how it handles and set the sensibility.

Before doing that I just had my ass kicked in dogfight so often, especially one time against Redkicker. And now I am a perfect ace on my LA5-FN.

Well may be not a perfect one
but I am able to get some kills now, whereas I wasn't before

I test planes in hard turns with Combat Flap both at low/high altitude and lowhigh speed. To set the sensibility, i keep turning at low altitude/ low speed (270-330 km/H which is the approx speed where you can sustain indefinitely hard turn whithout loosing altitude) with WEP/Combat Flap and keep the sensibility when I have no risk of stalling.

Well afterwards I have to be careful at high speed because the plane can still stall. (especially at high altitude or Am I wrong ?).

Sometimes It's not that simple for exemple with the Spit MKIX with the sensitivity set on 5 notches down, You cannot stall while turning right but If you're not careful you can stall while turning left.

Which leads me to 2 conclusions:
- So maybe put 6 notches down on Spit MKIX is a safer move.
- A plane turn harder on the right because of the couple of the engine ?

Originally Posted by juz1

the spit is very twitchy, and just try using the rudder in a hard turn...

useful set of av8r settings..I guess I am lazy as I turn down the sensitivity settings an extra couple on each one...

Yes you right but when you are busy hat switching while turning, I find it so difficult to manage properly the rudder no ?

[Ancient Seraph]

Originally Posted by Benrizz

Well afterwards I have to be careful at high speed because the plane can still stall. (especially at high altitude or Am I wrong ?).

Nope, not wrong. At higher altitudes airplanes are more prone to stalling. However, having a higher speed shouldn't make you stall earlier, it should have the opposite effect. High-speed stall does exist, but only on modern-day jets at ridiculous altitudes, as far as I know.

Originally Posted by Benrizz

Sometimes It's not that simple for exemple with the Spit MKIX with the sensitivity set on 5 notches down, You cannot stall while turning right but If you're not careful you can stall while turning left.

Which leads me to 2 conclusions:
- So maybe put 6 notches down on Spit MKIX is a safer move.
- A plane turn harder on the right because of the couple of the engine ?

I agree with both statements. About the second: when you're turning to the right with a right-turning propellor, and pull back hard on the stick, due to gyroscopic effects an additional force will be applied to the right. Not absolutely sure, but this seems a reasonable explanation as to why it stalls sooner in one turn than the other.