Detailed BOP test data for 20 BOP aircraft available here!

[Widar]

Originally Posted by SgtPappy

First off I'd like to extend my thanks to Wildar for taking the time to make this data compilation. Very helpful.

A couple suggestions: I think you'd get better climb results if you tested the aircraft climbs at certain speeds rather than angles, since not all of those planes can reach those angles. I think all the planes can reach at least 200km/h though.

Also, I noticed that the Spitfire XVI rolls worse than the IX? Is that a mistake? The clipped wings should help it roll better, not worse...

The roll rate of the Spitfire Mk. XVI in the test list was the fastest of one of three rolls. The others were even worse, meaning slower. The Spitfire Mk. IX was at least best of two. When the results were bad, I generally conducted three roll tests.

When I have some more time on my hands I plan on doing new BOP tests with stricter test parameters (i.e. manoever speed), higher sensitivity settings etc. but only for a few of the aircraft on the list and not for all 20 that are on the current test list. I want to duplicate some real life tests with various aicraft in BOP to be able to compare it further to real life data. In many ways this is a waste of time, since BOP has not paid that much respect to the real life performance and characteristics of various of the aircraft simulated. Especially the US and German ones are treatly badly. But I still want to further test the difference between reality and BOP to identify the BOP design philosophy.

There is one test result about which little can be argued: maximum sustained WEP level speed in BOP as compared to the real life historical aircraft test data. Just one look at the max. level speeds reveals that BOP is not equal to real life. The max. speeds are way off in BOP. That says something about simulator accuracy. A lot of the aircraft I tested have great difficulty settling even at one certain speed in the max. level speed tests, so I took the result that was there most often during about a 2 to 3 minute level flight at about 0+ degrees AoA. Those max. speed test results in BOP, the first thing I tested actually, are one of the reasons why I gave up on duplicating real life tests in BOP when testing all the 20 aircraft on the current test list.