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== Features == | == Features == | ||
The Spitfire L.F. (Low-altitude Fighter) Mk. IX as represented in DCS comes with: | |||
* A very messy cockpit. | |||
* A very narrow landing gear that tends to make landings even messier than the cockpit. | |||
* A differential braking system that makes controlling it on the ground messier still. | |||
* Elevator and (more importantly) rudder trimming to make straight and level flights (and landings) possible. | |||
* A later-model Mk II collimator gun sight. | |||
* 4× 7.69mm Browning machine guns and 2× 20mm Hispano Mk. II cannons. | |||
* The option to use clipped-wing variants for better roll and low-level speed at the cost of reduced wing lift and turn speed. | |||
* An injection carburettor that, unlike earlier models, was not (quite as) susceptible to sputtering to a halt during negative-g and inverted flight. | |||
== Flying the pitfire L.F. Mk. IX == | == Flying the pitfire L.F. Mk. IX == | ||
Revision as of 22:08, 9 July 2018
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It's the Spitfire. Does anything more really need to be said? The LF Mk IX variant available in DCS World is a mid-war model introduced, along with other “late-Merlin engine” variants, to counter the new threat of the Fw 190 and to be more adept at high-altitude interception of Ju 86 bombers.
Features
The Spitfire L.F. (Low-altitude Fighter) Mk. IX as represented in DCS comes with:
- A very messy cockpit.
- A very narrow landing gear that tends to make landings even messier than the cockpit.
- A differential braking system that makes controlling it on the ground messier still.
- Elevator and (more importantly) rudder trimming to make straight and level flights (and landings) possible.
- A later-model Mk II collimator gun sight.
- 4× 7.69mm Browning machine guns and 2× 20mm Hispano Mk. II cannons.
- The option to use clipped-wing variants for better roll and low-level speed at the cost of reduced wing lift and turn speed.
- An injection carburettor that, unlike earlier models, was not (quite as) susceptible to sputtering to a halt during negative-g and inverted flight.
Flying the pitfire L.F. Mk. IX
Cockpit overview
Getting into the air
Shooting something
Links and files
- Vehicle Size Chart for sight adjustments.
- Chuck's Spitfire LF Mk IX guide.
- DCS: Spitfire LF Mk. IX in the DCS shop.
Related DCS modules
- Spitfire LF Mk. IX Operation Epsom Campaign by B&W Campaigns (and Bunyap).
More information
- Supermarine Spitfire on wikpedia.
- Bunyap's Four Months in the Life of a Spitfire IX Wing video series.
- Taming taildraggers — an essay, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.