• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Accurate Airfile for stock P-38F?

Devildog73

Devildog73

SOH Staff
Staff member
Has anyone modified the stock P-38F airfile to make it more accurate?

I have modified the DP to show accurate ammo loads of 150 cannon and 500 each X 4 .50 cal rnds. instead of the stock 50 cannon and 5000 .50 cal.

Now I wish I could get the bird powered up to the real P-38F performance levels. It was built to climb to 20000 feet in 6 minutes or less. The CFS2 standard P-38F Lightning ain't there.

Too often in a dogfight I end up stalling and going into a death spiral and she won't come out of it like she should if she had the power needed out of those twin Allisons.
 
Devildog,

I haven't been able to log onto Netwings lately. (Missed the Netwings thread before making my first post.) If you need the airfile, send me a PM.

JAMES
 
Don't know....

...where you got those numbers. No production P-38 made ever climbed to 20K in six minutes, nor did the manuals claim it could. Only the experimental prototype could do that. :wavey:

Initial climb: About 2,850 ft. (870m) per minute
Time To Climb:
YP-38: 6 minutes to 20,000 ft.
P-38F-15-LO: 4 minutes to 10,000 ft.
P-38F-15-LO: 8.8 minutes to 20,000 ft.
P-38G-1-LO: 3.7 minutes to 10,000 ft.
P-38FG-1-LO: 8.5 minutes to 20,000 ft.
P-38J-25-LO: 2 minutes to 5,000 ft.
P-38J-25-LO: 5 minutes to 15,000 ft.
P-38J-25-LO: 7 minutes to 20,000 ft.

The P-38 was noted for extremely poor performance in the vertical, so the stock AIR file is probably more accurate than you think. :kilroy:

If you still want to boost your performance, all you need to do is add a Thrust Scalar entry to the CFG file at say 1.1 or 1.2 instead of the normal 1.0. :engel016:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top