Another Question - 109 Max ceiling ingame?

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Originally Posted by Varrattu

Of course late 109's were able to reach service ceilings beyond 10,000 meter. When we speak about the iL2COD "109"we have speak about the BF109-E.

I do not know any document from Daimler Benz, Messerschmitt or Rechlin, which reports a BF109-E ceiling above 7500 meter.

Long story short, a the ceiling of 10,000 meter with a real DB601A-1 in a real BF109-E was not possible.

~S~

Of course it did. I direct you to the specifications of the Bf 109E, 1939

http://www.kurfurst.org/Performance_...chreibung.html

"Dienstgipfelhöhe.

Die Dienstgipfelhöhe beträgt bei voller Ausrüstung 11 000 m."

Service ceiling.

The service ceiling is 11 000 meters with a fully equipped aircraft.

Note that this is service ceiling. Service ceiling is an altitude at which the aircraft could still climb at defined rate of climb, from memory it was defined by the Germans at 0,5 m/sec in other docs. So the absolute ceiling (climb = 0 m/sec) is a bit higher.