So what is this thread all about ? The stated purpose by the OP is:
This thread is going to cover the definable and measure stability and control characteristics of the Spitfire. It is not going to cover opinion outside of stability and control engineers.
What this thread is not going to do:
1. Get into a debate about "easy to fly". It is not definable and has no bearing on the measured facts.
2. It is not going to discuss the sustained level turning ability of the aircraft. That is also measurable and definable. For Example, anyone who is capable of doing the math will see that the Spitfire outturns the Bf-109 is steady state constant altitude turns at low velocity.
It has now become the OP's intent to raise this as an issue for the Bugtracker
The issue is that a bugtracker item should be about some genuine bug. That assumes the author actually presents proof that the bug exists. Has he done that ? All I see is too and fro about Real World Spitfire stability. Not much about actual in game behaviour. The OP has stated that he doesn't even have the latest Beta version installed.
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...4&postcount=12
Now we have yet another huge thread (
53 pages as of today !) with opposing views that has supposedly become the ammunition to support a Bugtracker entry that the CLOD Spitfire FM is porked stability wise. 53 pages of discussion but not as far as I can see ANY actual attempt to determine if the existing game FM is actually porked stability wise. The OP opined a while ago that he found the Spitfire hard to trim accurately in pitch .... and which he also said that would make sense considering the stability characteristics of the real aircraft... which (if we accept the stability argument is correct) implies that the current FM stability wise (at the time of his comment) is reasonable.
So how about before raising a Bugtracker defect report the actual defect is demonstrated.
For the record lest we forget The OP has also made comments like :
".......and a dangerous instability exhibited by the Spitfire."
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...4&postcount=34