Released! Spitfire Mk IXc for Microsoft Flight Simulator

I´m really looking forward to getting some warbirds into this sim, but it also bugs me a lot that they take off a Spitfire with the flaps extended in their video. Does that even work from a thermal point of view with the radiators almost fully blocked while the engine is delivering take off power? I´d really wish for some system depth also, at least to the Accusim extend, but that´ll take a while I guess with the core of the sim changing with each update and the SDK still in it´s early days. I´ll wait for what people say about this one. ;)
 
Yeah, that would cause the glycol to heat up fast for sure, having the flaps down on takeoff. I remember the late Bill Greenwood, who owned and piloted Spitfire T.9 TE308, describing that you don't even want to have the flaps down too long on approach for the real possibility of overheating, and you also don't want them down after landing for very long either for the same reason.

Right now I am really interested in this Spitfire just for the looks, and I just hope it flies fairly accurately too.
 
Hiya,

The "bug" with take-ing off with the flaps down, was the first thing i mentioned when applying as betatester. Was in fact a small mistake in
making the video i was told. It's indeed real-life a no-go, because of the drag created by the flaps and indeed to shield of your coolers under the wing.

About the ETA, please contact FlyingIron Simulation themselves, as betatester i'm not at liberty to say. I only may only tease you with screenshots. :pirate:

One thing i can say is this bird has great ground handling. Can make donuts on the runway and take-off with small rudder inputs, same for landing.

Marcel
 
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This is from a model but the exact shape along the z axis can be seen in the mid plate. Sort of a stretched droplet :

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I knew you'd come up with something too, John. Beat me to it by a second or two. :)
 

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shotgunshack said:
Radio mast is too big and too circular. Odd as everything else looks great.
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Checkout the Spitfire screenies at their site, antenna mast looks a bit like nothing's wrong with it... Might just be the sunglint on the antenna in Marcel's screenshot that plays a trick... ? (we're looking at it partly from the side, not straight at the back..)

I get that impression from the video as well..
 
Javis said:
Checkout the Spitfire screenies at their site, antenna mast looks a bit like nothing's wrong with it... Might just be the sunglint on the antenna in Marcel's screenshot that plays a trick... ? (we're looking at it partly from the site, not straight at the back..)

I get that impression from the video as well..
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LOL, good point Jan, have not checked it inSim myselve after this screenshot, will do now.

Marcel

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Just checked, the antenna is round and not teardrop shape. Mean the profile at the bottom, for the rest the antenna is correctly in height and side profile so far i can tell.
 
mgr said:
LOL, good point Jan, have not checked it inSim myselve after this screenshot, will do now.

Marcle
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Ahh, of course, you have the model, lucky you ! Shoot a screenie of the antenna straight from the back with the light shining on one side. Then we know. :wink:
 
dvj said:
Only, and I mean only if it has the distinctive Spits soundset tuned for fs2020. Tired of these warbirds sounding like old trucks in FSX.
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I'm beta testing the MkIX and I have to say the sound is gorgeous. More than that though, the experience of flying around a highly realistic and recognisable English coastline as dusk approaches with the sun glinting off the water and some atmospheric clouds in the sky, is, well. I'm lost for words.
 
Spit40 said:
I'm beta testing the MkIX and I have to say the sound is gorgeous. More than that though, the experience of flying around a highly realistic and recognisable English coastline as dusk approaches with the sun glinting off the water and some atmospheric clouds in the sky, is, well. I'm lost for words.
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Excellent, can't wait to hear it.
 
I posted this in the AH Spitfire topic, but just in case you're not reading that one...

If you have a 3D printer, you can now print your own authentic Spitfire control stick, with the throttle, landing gear, and flaps switches coming soon:

https://authentikit.org/what-is-it/
 
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