Spitfire L.F. Mk. IX

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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

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.