British OOB7 corrections and suggestions

[DRG]

Originally Posted by PvtJoker

Oh, and the P-47M actually could do 756 km/h (470 mph) at 9,000 meters (30,000 ft)

OK, granted according to http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/p-47/p-47.html it could get up to 473 mph---761 kph which would indeed be an 8 but we don't fight air battles at 38,000 feet in this game and the best that aircraft can do down on the deck is 367 mph ( 590 kph ) so it should be a 6 and NO I am not interested in the speed of a shallow dive with drag ( and gravity pull ) from the weight of weapons-----there comes a time ( should have been years ago ) when "enough is enough.", there is really only so much nitpicking I can stand

A "simple" rule of thumb that will apply in almost cases is the ground attack speed is one less than maximum speed and that is GOOD ENOUGH and if the maximum is used and it's 1 more than the sea level speed that is GOOD ENOUGH no matter how gratifying it is to dig out a book and say AH HA !!...... we're out by one. We give it 8 and it should be 4....... THAT is an issue not 8 should be 7

Don

[PvtJoker]

Originally Posted by DRG

A "simple" rule of thumb that will apply in almost cases is the ground attack speed is one less than maximum speed and that is GOOD ENOUGH and if the maximum is used and it's 1 more than the sea level speed that is GOOD ENOUGH no matter how gratifying it is to dig out a book and say AH HA !!...... we're out by one. We give it 8 and it should be 4....... THAT is an issue not 8 should be 7

Don

So, can we settle for a rule of thumb that you are interested only in aircraft speed errors that are at least +2 from the "correct" value? Because if we assume that speed at sea level is typically -1 from top speed at altitude like you suggest above, there are a lot of those errors still in the current OOB. When I went through the USMC aircraft, quite a few them had speeds +1 higher than they are supposed to have according to the Mobhack guide rule, and most of the real max. speeds were attained well above 10,000 feet.