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Thread: best turn speed

Spir4
Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:48 pm
#1
Hi,

Every ship has it's own 'best turn speed', the speed on which you have to set your throttle to be able to make the tightest and fastest turns.

But does that 'best turn speed' changes when you use another engine, or does that speed totally depends on the type of shipchassis you are using,

so changing the engine doesn't matter ?


thx
Attacca
Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:42 pm
#2

Throttle sweet spots are chassis specific, and don't change with engines.


Best turning is a combination of speed, slide, and sweet spot however.







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IL-Vec
Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:54 pm
#3




Attacca wrote:

Throttle sweet spots are chassis specific, and don't change with engines.


Best turning is a combination of speed, slide, and sweet spot however.






meaning your throttle for a sweet spot is at a set % of max spd not a set spd



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Spir4
Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:01 pm
#4
and is there any thread or so where you can find a list of all the ship types + their so called 'sweet spots' ?

or is it something you have to discover by yourself ?
Attacca
Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:50 pm
#5
Umm, somewhere around here, yes. We just had another thread like this a few days back, most folks chimed in that they fly more by feel. If you can get search to work, there is a list somewhere.





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LeaphChausew
Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:24 pm
#6




Attacca wrote:

Throttle sweet spots are chassis specific, and don't change with engines.


Best turning is a combination of speed, slide, and sweet spot however.







True. Though I do find my A-wing flys appreciably well at 70% throttle with my lvl 8 engine and I can even hit my AoA at that speed, whereas using a lvl 6 engine, I can't and can only hit it at around 90% speed consistently anyway.

Attacca
Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:26 pm
#7
Can you elaborate on hitting your AoA? I think we might mean different things by that term, and I'm confused.





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LeaphChausew
Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:37 pm
#8




Attacca wrote:
Can you elaborate on hitting your AoA? I think we might mean different things by that term, and I'm confused.




I mean, well. I may have been using this term incorrectly, but from how I was explained isn't it when you make a real sharp turn and you turn so sharp your throttle slider actually alters as the turn is so tight, you're lliterally turning without displacing as much space?

Spir4
Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:17 pm
#9
AoA ?
Kryxal
Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:28 pm
#10
I believe the Angle of Attack is the angle between the direction you're moving and the direction you're pointing. If you can fly an orbit around a stationary object and bring your guns to bear, that's a 90 degree AoA (or close, depending on target size).



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Attacca
Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:39 pm
#11

Ah, gotcha now. I was thinking AOA as it refers to aircraft. Same term, but they don't have to deal with slide issues the way we do.






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RedOnedi
Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:50 pm
#12

I had thought AoA was Apex of Acceleration, or something like that?


Leaph - about the throttle adjustment you are referring to...I had never noticed this before, until I was messing with my Firespray to find it's sweet spot...I thought something was wrong with the throttle control on my joystick, heh. Seems it's supposed to do that, after all. Thanks for that bit of info.


Domingo


LeaphChausew
Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:52 pm
#13




RedOnedi wrote:

I had thought AoA was Apex of Acceleration, or something like that?


Leaph - about the throttle adjustment you are referring to...I had never noticed this before, until I was messing with my Firespray to find it's sweet spot...I thought something was wrong with the throttle control on my joystick, heh. Seems it's supposed to do that, after all. Thanks for that bit of info.


Domingo






Np. My preferred way of flying is by maintaining this phenomenon for as long as I can. You can actually maintain it indefinitely at times but flying in a constant uniform circle is kinda impractical

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