Spitfire II quirks, questions and anomalies

[Das Attorney]

Thanks for posting the video. There's some very useful stuff in there.

I've been working on my gunnery as a result and I'm getting steadily better. Combined with flying from the FMB, I can now choose AP loadouts so I'm dealing more damage. I've even managed to consistently break wings off He-111's. Prevoiusly, I would empty the guns into a He-111 and it would fly off with lots of little holes in it.

Slightly offtopic: The video intimates that a 105mm gunsight is the perfect size to know when a Fw-190 is 100m away (10.5m wingspan touching the edge of the circle). Why did the Hurri and Spit have a 105mm gunsight when the Fw-190 wasn't in service for another year?

Surely they would have made the gunsight 99mm or so to estimate the distance for the Bf-109. Unless I'm missing something (which is highly probable...)

[Timberwolf]

Seen this video a few years back and set my guns up With a game called fighter ace Online I swear i had people typing "Hacker" when i was in the air I had no problems lining up short burst kills. I could do a ace run and land with a few rounds left.

CLod I'm having a hard time just keeping the plane level on eazy settings Can't seem to use the trim wheel and my dead zones are wayyy off im bouncing all over

[Crashlight]

Just running on simple engine settings, the Spitfire doesn't have Boost although I have seen it activate on autopilot. Same settings, the Hurricane boost worked fine, making it a better fighter than the Spitfire is. ???

Anyway, Boost never activates on simple engine management settings even with hotkey activation of "T" and "W" whereas the Hurricane does it automatically with no hotkey activation. I guess a fix is coming or is there a workaround?

[Danelov]

Yes, the Spitfire had this boost but is not automatic. In the time pilots speak about of :"Breaking the wire","pulling the plug","Buster", "thought the gate" ,"Pressing emergency overide","press the emergency boot tit", etc, etc.
"Breaking the wire" refers to broken the protection wire in the throttle quadrant to limit the overpower and ev damage to the engine.