18 minutes ago, BostonJeremy77 said:

No worries! Thanks for a quick response. If I may pile on one more thing onto my wishlist - it's minor, so no big deal if you can't do it - the clickspot for Pitot Heat switch is near the rudder trim wheel, if you hover over it unless you bring your camera WAY down, I can't get it to lock onto the pitot heat switch. It's no biggie, but perhaps tweaking that clickspot a bit may make life a little easier. 

Thanks I've added it to the update list!

9 minutes ago, Treetops45 said:

A couple of shots from an out landing.

I like the detail & little touches.

Also, a Keyboard AP for Hold ALT & Hold HDG works without having to get into Engines.cfg.

T45

Nice rivet delineation. The TE end of the 1st white GT stripe, the small arm poking through - is that part of the flap system?

 

Canopy scratches, flush screw heads - nice touches.

 

Nice shots 🙂 Spot on, it is a visual indicator for the flaps. Appreciate the kind words

Dan

It's refreshing to see small developers put out quality content and give excellent support/listen to feedback. Congrats on the release! 

I have a question: I decided to try to limit all my addon purchases to the marketplace, to centralize everything on a single place.

Regardless I would like to know if the spitfire comes with its own installer/launcher, or it's a simple drag&drop addon. If that's the case, I might consider making an exception 🙂

It's a drag and drop into the Community folder.

Incidentally, here it is up at 41,000 feet!

42 minutes ago, neucoas said:

It's refreshing to see small developers put out quality content and give excellent support/listen to feedback. Congrats on the release! 

Thank you appreciate the kind words!

20 minutes ago, Chock said:

It's a drag and drop into the Community folder.

Incidentally, here it is up at 41,000 feet!

Lovely shot!

33 minutes ago, Chock said:

Incidentally, here it is up at 41,000 feet!

41,000!  That must be about tops for the Spitfire. I hope you had plenty of oxygen Chock!  Were you having to hold that angle of attack to keep it level at that altitude?

53 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

41,000!  That must be about tops for the Spitfire. I hope you had plenty of oxygen Chock!  Were you having to hold that angle of attack to keep it level at that altitude?

Well, bizarrely (or handily if you want to look at it that way) my Saitek/Logitech Autopilot/trim/Flap panel works with this thing despite the fact that the real Spitfire of course did not have an autopilot. So I was able to dial in 42,000 feet and a shallow rate of climb and it eventually got up to 41,000 feet, where it was at that AoA and still just barely climbing, and I mean only just climbing, so I doubt it would have made it to 42,000 feet before the fuel was gone.

That's France below incidentally, and I took off from Manchester, so that gives you an idea of how long it took to get up to that height, but it's not unrealistic for a Mark IX to get up there. A slightly stripped down Mark IX managed to make it up to 43,000 feet in September 1942, where it got some shots off at a Junkers 88R, the Luftwaffe crew of which probably thought it was invulnerable at the time. It got hit in the engine area but  returned to base; the recoil from the Spitfire's one cannon firing - the other one had jammed in the freezing temperatures - kept causing the Spitfire to come close to stalling and so it could not deliver a killing blow to the Ju88. As far as I'm aware, that was the highest recorded combat engagement of WW2.

Strictly speaking, that Spitfire involved in this engagement was a Mark VC which had been brought up to Mark IX standards by installing the Merlin with the two stage supercharger, as was the case for many 'Mark IXs'. It's pretty impressive that an aeroplane designed in the mid Thirties could get up to the cruise altitude of a Boeing 747 though. It also says a lot about how good the Junkers 88 was too, because that one was carrying a 250lb bomb load with the intention of bombing Southampton docks from 41,000 feet, and it got up to 43,000 after the bomb was gone and was able to to evade the Spitfire.

That's the Yanks for you though; they know how to design a good aeroplane, and they certainly did when they made the Ju 88. There's little doubt that it was one of the most versatile aeroplanes of WW2, having been a bomber, a nightfighter, a photo recce, an anti shipping platform, a glider tug, a missile launcher, an airliner, and a cargo plane.

That's also why my old mate Jimmy was cool, because cause he did manage to shoot down a Ju 88 in his Spitfire at about that time.

Edited March 6, 20215 yr by Chock

6 hours ago, Dan_FIS said:

Thanks I've added it to the update list!

Nice shots 🙂 Spot on, it is a visual indicator for the flaps. Appreciate the kind words

Dan

I didn't realise you posted here, I sent an email on your website page about a couple of VR issues last night.

 

Great plane thank you very much for your work I'm loving it 👌

8 hours ago, Chock said:

 

That's the Yanks for you though; they know how to design a good aeroplane, and they certainly did when they made the Ju 88.

Yanks?🙃

I'll cycle the query below as it wasn't picked up yesterday:

Cruising in level flight at 12,000' on 70% throttle, what Prop & Mixture %'s are Flyingiron owners using? (& also what were you using at 41,000')?

& what kia at touchdown are you aiming for?

T45

Just now, Treetops45 said:

Yanks?🙃

 

Yup, the Ju88 was designed by primarily a US-based team which had met at Fokker's factory in the States where Alfred Gassner had been the chief designer, working with Wilhelm Heinrich Evers, who paired up with Gassner to design the Junkers 88 when they worked for Junkers along with Ernst Zindel. So it's more a bit of fun to say the Ju88 was designed by Yanks than being strictly true as you can tell by those Germanic and Dutch-sounding names, but there is nonetheless a grain of truth in it, because its designers did indeed meet when they were living and working in the States as aircraft designers.

8 minutes ago, Treetops45 said:

Cruising in level flight at 12,000' on 70% throttle, what Prop & Mixture %'s

Mixture just leave on Auto (fully forward if I remember right). For engine settings I'd usually go at combat cruise setting of 2200 + 4lb boost. 

22 minutes ago, Chock said:

Yup, the Ju88 was designed by primarily a US-based team which had met at Fokker's factory in the States where Alfred Gassner had been the chief designer, working with Wilhelm Heinrich Evers, who paired up with Gassner to design the Junkers 88 when they worked for Junkers along with Ernst Zindel. So it's more a bit of fun to say the Ju88 was designed by Yanks than being strictly true as you can tell by those Germanic and Dutch-sounding names, but there is nonetheless a grain of truth in it, because its designers did indeed meet when they were living and working in the States as aircraft designers.

Well, we live & we learn. Did not know that😀

I'll have to look up Fokker's factory in the USA.

T45

Crafty Fokkers.* Incidentally, it was at one time claimed that the design for the Spitfire's elliptical wing was inspired by a Heinkel design seen by British engineers before the war, although that is now disputed.

 

*Delete if that's deemed offensive.

11 hours ago, Chock said:

It's a drag and drop into the Community folder.

Thanks! Be sure to share your review video !

I noticed that there is no sound for the various switches in the VC (magnetos, flaps, manual fuel pump, etc). I hope they update and add those, it really adds to the immersion.

How do you shut the canopy? I've tried clicking everywhere. Thanks for any help.

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Ah! Got it. You have to close the door first!😂

Edited March 6, 20215 yr by jarmstro