Spitfire makes only 300 mph?

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Originally Posted by ICDP

Make sure to adjust your prop for best speed, this isn't IL2 where you leave it on 3000 RPM at all times. I found the best to be around 2600 - 2800 RPM.

Inidentally, the boost guage only goes up to 8lb but that doesn't mean that is the bost we get. Spitfires in BoB still had the old boost guage and when pulling full boost the needle was off the guage with 100 octane fuel.

As I said, the speed seems to match a MkIIa with 100 octane fuel.

Looks like it's only a faulty boost gauge Than..

Anyway it seemed to me that Oleg modelled the MkII as CSP+100 octane, the Mk Is are with two pitch props and 87 octane. Good choice IMHO.

The thing about rpm is odd though. I believe you have to fly 3000/+12 to get max speed, less rpm should yield less power.. CSPs seem buggy too, far from being "complex", as in RL, where u had to operate throttle and rpm in set sequence to avoid over/underboosting, right now they work like German automated throttles, where u operate a single lever and görget about the rest..