a possible solution for overheating & low speed spitfire/hurricane in last Beta patch

[zapatista]

for those of you who are having problems, and for those who have looked in detail at what the real airspeed figures are for this aircraft, there is an interesting comment made by one of the desastersoft folks on what can be done with these aircraft to get better/more-realistic performance

quoted from HeinKill's recent post at simhq

Originally Posted by HeinKill

Many players are grumbling about RAF kites overheating, blowing up, and performing poorly with the 1.08 patch. Discussing this with Thomas Voss of Desastersoft, this is his response:

Originally Posted by desastersoft

There is no problem with Spitfire or Hurricane here on last Beta. I have no overheating or speed lost on full real settings.

Try following:
Open Cowling FULL before start engine and Do not close it!

Then inflight use throttle and Prop Pitch so, that you are not in “Boost” line. If you stay on this, out of combat, you increase enough speed and have cool engine. Use the boost line only in combat and at climbing. At straight flight keep RPM at round about 2600 to 2900 and watch in red boost section on the instrument. If you decrease RPM, Preasure goes up and comes to the Red Section. This can kill the Engine because of overpressure.

seems he knows what he is talking about, worth a try

if this is correct, it illustrates one of our biggest problems with CoD and the various patches, we dont have a decent manual. it is also rather asymetrical that the 109 can be flown like a semi automatic noob friendly modern aircraft that can fly around on fire for ages and have no performance hits, and a 6 yo can land it with ease (compared to the historical 30% of all 109's being lost in takeoff and landing accidents because it was so twitchy and skittish, and with the allied planes we have to fiddle with lots of twiddly bits to squeeze some halfway decent performance out of it

i digress, worth trying mr desastersofts suggestions for those having problems