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Originally Posted by Glider
Yes and there is nothing that seems exceptional.
Crumpp highlighted the parts of a Spitfire manual that caused him some concern and I addressed those individually and am more than willing to do the same for you.
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Well the manual highlights that the elevator is so sensitive that the pilot can easily pull enough g-load to exceed the structural limitations and of the aircraft. It isn't so in the sim, no matter how crazy manouveres I tried in the Spit (ie. vertical dives at Vne) I simply couldn't break it.
It's incorrect and the stick/pitch behaviour should be fixed.
Also the aircraft seem to be rolling much faster at high speed than it should - 3 times as fast as I recall.
Personally I think this disharmony between the controls and senstitivity in pitch are one of the most curious ommitments from the Spitfire's FM. Simply to put, it is not flown like a Spitfire, 'with a light fingertip on the elevator and arm wrestling the ailerons' as pilots have put it.
Positive pitch stability for the Spitfire FM in the sim is also confirmed, as opposed to the real life longitudal pitch instability. This is, again, important for the flying experience: the very low stick force per g and slight instability meant that real Spit had to be handled with careful movements on the stick, and with routine aft-and-fore movements on the stick to prevent the aircraft to tighten up itself. I do not think this was particularly dangerous (though the low stick force per g had some safety risks, admitted by the manual), but it was characteristic of the Spitfire's handling.