Spitfire service ceiling...

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by trademe900

Yes, very funny...

What can I say.. It's a gift!

Originally Posted by trademe900

but I'm sorry, there is no denying the climb rates are appallingly slow.

Don't be sorry, because no one is denying the aircraft performance is poor at high altitudes, in that even 1C (Luthier and BS) said a long time ago that the performance is poor at high altitudes due to limitations in the FM. Which I find hard to belive and is just a cop out IMHO to explain why they are not going to put any more effort into fixing the FM

Originally Posted by trademe900

The plane is basically not even in a state of flight up there. Above 10,000k the time to height vs real life just plummets through the floor.

Good luck getting to 20k in 7 mins in cod spit! Hurricane will get there faster

Than the new patch made things worse, because that was not the case in the previous patch, performance drop didn't occur until you got to around 15kft and it was not as bad as you described. That or your doing something wrong, but we will never know for sure because you did not make use of one of the C# scripts to record and log your data during flight.