Acceleration comparisons

[Jumoschwanz]

Originally Posted by horseback

If someone expert in one type or another feels that he can obtain better results with different settings in a given type, I invite them to put their oar in and help out the community at large.
[Horseback

I did acceleration testing of all the aircraft in this sim for many years, not to help the community at large, but to get an edge on them flying online. Sometimes I did post results here and there on various forums, but as Horseback found out, it is time consuming and my hard work was so I could shoot others down, if they were not smart enough or too lazy to do the work I did, then screw them.

The acceleration tests I did were done in a different way. I figured there were two different things to know about my aircraft and how it accelerated.

The first was acceleration at very low speed. Often if you get mixed up in a dogfight you might find yourself at stall speed, or almost stopped in some evasive maneuver. So I tested all aircraft to see what speed they could get to in a set distance, starting at zero.

Once I had the speeds all aircraft could reach in a set distance from zero, then I saw what speed they reached in exactly twice that distance, so then I knew which aircraft could get away from which from almost no speed at all, and I also knew which could gain the most speed when already starting at a high speed. Both very useful in evasive maneuvers and in energy fighting.

I also tested the top speeds of all aircraft both on the deck and at 5000 meters altitude, which was also very useful to know for every common aircraft flown online in popular servers.

Yes, some aircraft need different trimming and other settings to get the most out of them, but that is to be expected as they were different machines manufactured thousands of miles from each other by extremely different cultures and engineers.

That is why making all the aircraft behave exactly the same would be ridiculous whether it trim or any other parameter or control feature, if you do that we may as well get rid of all the aircraft in the sim except for one, we could all just fly 25lb spits.

I say plug the engineering data for each aircraft into the IL2 simulator and fly what you get. Every pilot in WWII had to learn his specific aircraft, if he switched to a different one then he was set back and had to learn many things all over again.