Throwing some light on rates of turn

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

I've argued many times for historical accuracy,

And so have we all. But see my post above. I don't think it's possible to have any aircraft modelled correctly for the same reason we can't get to altitude. Seems to me that the air is too dense at sea level, and too rarified past 20,000ft.

But there has been a lot of stuff posted (reams and reams and reams and....) and the performance of the RAF fighters has been downgraded to a point lower than even published 87 octane performance levels.

When you take a look at Luthier's sig over at Sukhoi, it's no surprise that some people are convinced that there's a certain level of bias.

But you're right in that when the game was released, both the Spit II and the Rotol Hurri performed better compared to the 109 than they should. Tests I carried out myself said they performed closest to published data out of all the a/c however. This was pretty much accepted by all, including the 109 jocks who were saying that their mounts performed lower than historically.

What was expected by some in the patch was everything else to be brought up to that level of performance accuracy. Instead the RAF fighters have been neutered, and we're being told that the Spit II and Rotol Hurri were wrong.

I suppose all us Red chaps are feeling similar to how the Blue chaps previously felt with the Spit II, and that was banned from servers as a result.

Unfortunately, we can't ban everything on the blue team except bombers, because then we'd have no game.

My own opinion is that instead of arguing with eachother, we should be banging on the developer's door for historical accuracy on both sides, and correct performance at all altitudes, coz arguing between ourselves isn't going to resolve any issues on either side of the red/blue divide.