Acceleration comparisons

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Originally Posted by majorfailure

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Originally Posted by gaunt1 View Post
Thank you again Horseback!



How can I check that? Is there an update/patch that adds acceleration graph? My version (4.11) has only summary, speed, rate of climb, ROC vs climb speed, turn time and fan plot.

I think initial acceleration is roughly proportional to max RoC.

Exactly. The climb vs TAS diagram for a certain altitude also represents the Ps diagram for that altitude. To get the exact value of acceleration an aero plane can have in level flight at a certain altitude and airspeed multiply Ps value for said altitude and airspeed by gravitational acceleration and divide it by airspeed. Comparison of the ability of two aircraft to accelerate in level flight takes only a look at the ROC vs airspeed diagram in IL- 2 compare with the two aircraft selected: that which can out climb can also out accelerate. To express that in percents for a certain airspeed just calculate the percentage of advantage in ROC one aero plane holds over the other. Off course, we only have these diagrams available for sea level, but MaxGunz already explained this.