This Spit has a really good feeling.Īs for the Dove cliffs I went and did that, there seem fine now! Easy to take good shots of them. I agree with the FG but I like this MKI more than the FI, even if the FI is more polished. It's easier but its still the same dance its just a bit more easier. Its funny they remind me of Alphasim, making special aircraft I wanted to fly but never going the extra mile.Ībout overheating, the FI Sptfire is a Mark 9 less sensitive than the Mark 1, I think, but early on I blew an engine with this bird.Ībout the Corsair, which is indeed quite good an aircraft, better IMHO than the FI Spit', anybody has changed the prop texture to get rid of the stroboscopic effect ? Knowing AH history, I need to be convinced. In a Spitfire 😏 ? I am full in learning to tame the Gina which is a handful so I am in no hurry to get another Spit but will read with interest your feedbacks. I am a little interrogative when I see so many users saying that take off and landing are a piece of cake. Interestingly, I did learn that fine pitch is also fully rearward, and with its' usage dependent upon prop fitted. The site allows one to browse each page of the Notes, but pdf downloads need a paid subscription.

It needs a (free) account opened to look up a manufacturer - Supermarine - and there you will find the pilot's notes for several marks of the Spit, including the Mk I. Sorry - more digging found the Avialogs Aviation site: Alternators were not around 'back then' - even for automobiles.Ĭheesh! I didn't mention the 'full up-elevator' when starting plus two bods sitting on the stab when doing a mag check. Lastly, just a minor note - the Spit Mks I, and at least, through IX, all used a 12 volt DC Generator to supply electrical power. The above is the result of some modest research of various archives, plus my own personal experience of, or in flying two or three of those aircraft, and was prompted by the Nyxx's second video - the 'AH cockpit guide and engine start', wherein at the 13 minute point, the AH narrator/pilot is surprisingly seen and heard, doing it backwards. Commonly the lever was held back behind a metal tab fitted to the throttle arm, such that closing the throttle also pulled back the mixture lever. also, thanks to the British Commonwealth Air Training plan and it's (initially British) standardisation of cockpit layouts, almost every military single-engined piston aircraft built since the Tiger Moth, (and including) Chippie, Spit, Auster, Dominie, Anson, Beaufighter (and too many others) - and on into the '50's - had a mixture lever that was the reverse of the now-internationally used 'forward = full rich' system.

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