Soviet fighters and 4.12

[fruitbat]

Charts, that what it needs. Oodles of charts

[Treetop64]

Originally Posted by fruitbat

Charts, that what it needs. Oodles of charts

Don't. Just don't.

[Mustang]

I never fly Russian planes, I fell like a cheater.
I dont care about russian planes, I saw this in La5 FN manual.
If you open the radiator you will loose 55 Kms/h

Then un FW 190 can maybe can out run you.

At a glance in the manual of LA 5 FN.... ignored for 10 years!

[1984]

Originally Posted by Mustang

I saw this in La5 FN manual.

If you open the radiator you will loose 55 Kms/h

in manual not "radiator", in manual "stvorki" and oil cooler...

2 things, not like in game...

and in real life FN pilots NOT open "stvorki" in fly, only if pilot wants to do this (no reasons in real fight and flight situations for stvorki FULL open, maybe for cooling engine sometimes), and was open only oil cooler, but only "по потоку", it means not full open, so - pilots and la-5 lose NOT 45-50 km/h...

i think, when oil cooler "по потоку" and stvorki open on 1/3 - this mean NO any problems with engine work (on forsazh too) - aircraft lose 20-25 km/h...

all this was reason why эталон 44 года= la-7 have new oil cooler - and stvorki...

and how i think, and read - 8. Влияние открытия заслонки маслорадиатора и боковых створок капота на максимальные скорости самолета, температуры масла и температуры головок цилиндров - la-7 lose with full open zaslonki and full open oil cooler only 9 km/h...

if this true, what we have in game?

[Faustnik]

Originally Posted by fruitbat

Charts, that what it needs. Oodles of charts

I have been working in this:

[gaunt1]

Climb rate now looks far better than the current one we have in IL2 compare! However, top speed at SL is still too much, the MBI book says its only 535 km/h. 551 is for La-5F. The data is from actual soviet test results. I include the page from the book.