A newbies impression of the 109 and spit
Honestly, I'm not really impressed with the me, only because the spit seems to be a clown wagon. I don't know if im over turning the me-109, but to me it seems even the spit Ia can toy with 2 aircraft (did it against a Bf-110 and Me-109) and still came out on top. It just turns so darn well without stalling, which just seems suspect to me. I know it had "the better turn rate", but the spit seems really easy to make fly it's best rather than the me 109.
I just don't get it...to me it just seems like an aircraft with the proper difficulty of a fighter is pitted against a Cessna 172 that can make good speed and has .308 guns. I really don't know if this is realistic or not...but it just seems dubious to me. I think both planes would be more evenly matched if the spit wasn't so brain dead easy to fly, and it actually took effort to pull high AoA turns in the spit like it seems to in the 109. It just seems like night and day. The Me-109 you have to think about turn rates, and not bleeding energy to stay in the air...and the spit is more like "whats energy again I've got pretty wings and a Merlin remember!"
Last edited by gimpy117; 04-19-2012 at 06:35 AM.
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