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Old 12-09-2012, 03:14 PM
badatflyski badatflyski is offline
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Originally Posted by JtD View Post
It's important to note that the Fw 190A was noted to have very good acceleration and to for instance out accelerate a Spitfire IX (Merlin 61) under most conditions. Imo this can be attributed to the Kommandogerät, which allowed a quicker change of power settings, so the Fw 190 was already on it's way where the Spitfire was still getting the mixture right.
I would rather say it's related to a better prop efficiency, what is awfully modelled in il2 just like the kommanda gerrât that is much too slow in response and also not able to keep revs in climb (back to response time)