HE-111 is a glider

[Sven]

Have you seen the size of the wings?

[jf1981]

Hi
I mean the friction are very small, it keeps its speed & alt for very long time.

[Redroach]

yeah, "a very long time" is certainly regarded as a most legitimate measurement nowadays (see various other threads). This sentence surely deserves a major investigation of the whole development team! Quick!

[jf1981]

Originally Posted by Redroach

yeah, "a very long time" is certainly regarded as a most legitimate measurement nowadays (see various other threads). This sentence surely deserves a major investigation of the whole development team! Quick!

Go on measure for yourself, it's simply not realistic.

Report back the results if you want to show the way. Have'nt done that yet, I'll wait till the games get patched to a level where it needs fine-tune before starting to post comments again. There is simply too much work to do on the sim now. I think they'll be dealing with all sorts of things so in few weeks / months time, we'll see certainly quite big difference with now.

[Korn]

You're sending him to measure after you report it? Why didn't you measure it before reporting the issue? It's not hard, just feather your props and see how many km you can glide from 1km and you'll get the glide ratio. Fyi a modern sailplane easily tops 60.

The He111 should glide pretty damn well since it's got very big wings, in fact its wing area is over 50% bigger than say the B25, which is in fact heavier.

[jf1981]

I just mean to me it does not look like a normal behaviour thought I have not measured.

[KG26_Alpha]

Unfortunately........

Your post is typical of many others in the past regarding aircraft behaviour be it FM, DM or WP.

You could be right, but you will at least have to bring something here other than "its not normal" perhaps..... load out, weather, altitude, speed etc etc etc

No one for sure can say either way what's right and wrong regarding characteristics of particular aircraft in certain circumstances as there are too many variables attributing to different behaviour due to the flight conditions.

Lets just say someone using pure mathematics could "guesstimate" the glide slope and plot a chart.

But another "chart monkey" will come along to disprove it.

Meanwhile...........

Here's some He111 wings minus control surfaces till the next update comes along...........

[jf1981]

HE-111 is indeed the best one in this aspect of all planes I tested. Meanwhile I did some measurements, you could find that in a post I updated a bit up to this one.

Regards

[bongodriver]

col123 is quite right, how did anyone deduce 'big' wings = good gliding performance? every sailplane I know has high aspect ratio long and skinny wings, sounds to me like the 111 has an FM bug if it is gliding so well, those big wings should create huge amounts of induced drag.