Accurate Airfile for stock P-38F?

[Devildog73]

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.

 

[Eoraptor1]

Devildog,

Have you tried the 1% P-38 airfile available at Netwings?

JAMES

 

[Eoraptor1]

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

 

[Buddha13]

Hi all,
Look here,
http://web.archive.org/web/20071112080212/www.netwings.org/library/

Buddha13

 

[miamieagle]

Scroll through this files http://web.archive.org/web/*/files.netwings.org/* and see if you can find it!

Click here files.netwings.org/ and scroll through all its backup files. I believe most of its files are there.

 

[Tango_Romeo]

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.

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.

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.