ATAG_Torian
Mar-15-2012, 14:03
I know I know, this has probably been done to death but on nite duty at 0300
when all is quiet on the ward I get's to reading and seething over what the Ia
should be and the one we are forced use.
All quotes are about the Ia from pilots actually flying them in the BoB
website= http://www.spitfireperformance.com/spit1vrs109e.html
P/O Art Donahue's account of using +12 boost during his first combat of 5 August 1940, whilst flying Spitfires with No. 64 Squadron out of Kenley, is typical:
There are bandits approaching from the north In quick response to this information, our leader sang out a command: All Tiger aircraft, full throttle! Full Throttle! That meant to use the emergency throttle that gave extra power to our engines. I was flying in our leaders section, on his left. As he gave the command Full throttle, his plane started to draw ahead, away from me. I pushed in my emergency throttle in response to the command, the first time I had ever used it, and my engine fairly screamed with new power. I felt my plane speeding up like a high spirited horse that has been spurred. 55
F/Lt. John Webster, of No. 41 Squadron, once again noted use of 12 boost in his Combat Report of 8 August 1940:
I had no difficulty (using 12 boost) in overtaking the Me. 109's either in diving or level flight. 56
F/O R.W. Wallens, of No. 41 Squadron, recorded in his Combat Report for 11 August 1940:
12 lbs boost used by all Green Section. 57
41 Squadron, now flying from Catterick in 13 Group, intercepted the 15 August 1940 raid on the east coast. The Intelligence Officer noted:
All pilot's report e/a fast and used 12 lbs boost to catch them. 58
I guess most of u have read this page from this site but how I long for a Ia
modelled the same as the ONES THAT ACTUALLY FLEW IN THE BoB (pant pant
snort). The boost cutout doesn't work in the Ia or the Hurri. OK I think fair enuff,
leave out the IIa if u want a realistic BoB but the way the Ia is sooo grossly
undermodelled it's not realistic anyway. A more liberal quantity of IIa's would
actually add more realism. I really can't understand how the devs porked these
basics so badly.
when all is quiet on the ward I get's to reading and seething over what the Ia
should be and the one we are forced use.
All quotes are about the Ia from pilots actually flying them in the BoB
website= http://www.spitfireperformance.com/spit1vrs109e.html
P/O Art Donahue's account of using +12 boost during his first combat of 5 August 1940, whilst flying Spitfires with No. 64 Squadron out of Kenley, is typical:
There are bandits approaching from the north In quick response to this information, our leader sang out a command: All Tiger aircraft, full throttle! Full Throttle! That meant to use the emergency throttle that gave extra power to our engines. I was flying in our leaders section, on his left. As he gave the command Full throttle, his plane started to draw ahead, away from me. I pushed in my emergency throttle in response to the command, the first time I had ever used it, and my engine fairly screamed with new power. I felt my plane speeding up like a high spirited horse that has been spurred. 55
F/Lt. John Webster, of No. 41 Squadron, once again noted use of 12 boost in his Combat Report of 8 August 1940:
I had no difficulty (using 12 boost) in overtaking the Me. 109's either in diving or level flight. 56
F/O R.W. Wallens, of No. 41 Squadron, recorded in his Combat Report for 11 August 1940:
12 lbs boost used by all Green Section. 57
41 Squadron, now flying from Catterick in 13 Group, intercepted the 15 August 1940 raid on the east coast. The Intelligence Officer noted:
All pilot's report e/a fast and used 12 lbs boost to catch them. 58
I guess most of u have read this page from this site but how I long for a Ia
modelled the same as the ONES THAT ACTUALLY FLEW IN THE BoB (pant pant
snort). The boost cutout doesn't work in the Ia or the Hurri. OK I think fair enuff,
leave out the IIa if u want a realistic BoB but the way the Ia is sooo grossly
undermodelled it's not realistic anyway. A more liberal quantity of IIa's would
actually add more realism. I really can't understand how the devs porked these
basics so badly.