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Originally Posted by RE77ACTION
With "clean up" I think he meant pulling up landing gear and landing flaps when used at the start. These two will induce great drag.
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Ah right, yes I see that, I don't actually have landing flaps down when taking off, and obviously I raise the undercarriage. Should I be using landing flaps on takeoff, I thought as the name suggests that they are for landing?
Mind you I have seen combat flaps mentioned in this and many of the threads here discussing "trim" and yet I can find no key binding for them and no mention of them in any of the options menus.
I have just tried some of Viper2000s advice (the bits I understand), maintaining a level flight until the IAS is over 180, and it does work, to a certain extent, but it makes climbing in the 2nd Spit mission to meet the bombers painfully slow and by the time I'm at any decent altitude (highest I've got the Spit to go so far is 6000ft) I'm well out of range of any enemy aircraft and the bombers have flown past a long while before.
As for using CEM, all I want is an accessible, but slightly more realistic than the likes of games like Blazing Angels, WWII flight game that I can pick up and play for a few hours here and there, adding CEM into the mix seems like it will over complicate things, and just looking through the key bindings it seems I need a couple of extra arms and a couple of keyboards to map and use all the controls required.
It's just too complicated for someone who wants to pick up a game and fly and take down bogies for a while.
And I don't recall having similar issues in IL-2 1946, although I will now go back and double check that.
Forgive me for discussing this though as I suspect it's all been said before, but I'm new to the forums and this Spitfire problem is rather frustrating, up until the switch to Manston the campaign had been rather enjoyable for me.