Spitfire Mk IX In Depth Guide | DCS World

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This was my next most requested guide after the P-51, so after some virtual flying, filming, editing, re-shoots, and a bit of landing practice, it is finally here!
As usual, it is marked off into chapters to make finding a particular segment easier. Please enjoy, and hopefully this makes taming the Spitfire easier for you!
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:28 Clipped Wing
01:54 Cockpit Tour
26:25 Brakes
29:30 Cold Start
35:08 Taxi
37:03 Runup
39:20 Takeoff
44:15 Fuel Tanks
46:38 Power Settings
49:14 Supercharger
51:15 Basic Combat
57:50 Good Landing
01:02:50 Bad landing
01:04:20 Shutdown
01:05:04 Outro

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17 июл 2024

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@yungcaco1443 Год назад

Hey man I’m a Brit who’s just started learning the Spit 🇬🇧 and just wanna say thanks for making this video. It’s the best in depth tutorial on it I’ve seen so far. Cheers 🍻

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

My pleasure! Glad you found it helpful!

@Corsair8X Год назад

The first weekend I was finally able to land it successfully with some regularity left me with a real sense of accomplishment that I don’t think I felt with from any other aspect of any other DCS module.

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

Yeah, it felt real good when I finally nailed the landing the first time! I didn’t think it was as hard as it was, coming from the P-47 and P-51, and being able to land those two aircraft well.

@letsridehard 8 месяцев назад

I need to spend some more hours just practicing landing. There’s no worst feeling than coming back after an hour mission over the channel and break your spit on a bad landing lol

@DieselThunderAviation 8 месяцев назад

The Spit is the hardest one of the hardest to land, took me a bit of practice to be able to land it reliably. Keep at it, it'll feel good when you can grease it in!

@jockcop4205 6 месяцев назад

This is the best spitfire guide ive found yet

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! Working currently on one for the Bf-109.

@philb1167 Год назад

Well done on the guide. Covered all the details nicely and clearly.

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

@MF-og1ct 3 месяца назад

With the Spitfire I really recommend you stay high and come in steep at idle, then just a touch of throttle if needed to bring it in soft. A slipped approach is best because you can see the runway and drop altitude easily then just straighten out before touchdown. It is not a jet, so don't fly it like one. Very informative video, thanks for posting.

@DieselThunderAviation 3 месяца назад

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it! I'll have to try out the steep overhead break next time I fly it.

@MasterTimbo 3 месяца назад

Extremely helpful video with lots of information. This is absolutely top notch. Thanks!

@DieselThunderAviation 3 месяца назад

My pleasure, glad it was helpful!

@huigsnellenburg6144 5 месяцев назад

Just started to fly the WarBirds incl the Spitfire Mk IX, and of course ... big problems with taking off and landings, and I know practice and adjusting settings is the only way to get your head around things and get the feeling of it. And It really doesn't make it easier when virtualy all videos have "different" take off "recommendations" So I decided today to go with yours, and man .... since today I have made a huge progress, especially because of the explenations why we have to do this and that. Thanks for taking time to produce this video giving all the ins and outs we need to know.

@DieselThunderAviation 5 месяцев назад

My pleasure, glad you found it helpful! My goal with these is to give a solid foundation to build on and to make various phases of flight easier to understand. Glad you are having an easier time in the Spitfire!

@Madd0g5148 5 месяцев назад

They tough girls to take out and harder to return 😅🤣... Getting the rudder and stick inputs are tough and once you hit the first bump, things get exciting 😅. Got over 40hours in take off and landings and things are still sketchy 🤞

@gomes389 Год назад

Very good video and well explained.

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

Thank you, glad you like it!

@2110FSX 4 месяца назад

Awesome, thank you for sharing.

@DieselThunderAviation 4 месяца назад

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!

@Graham183 3 месяца назад

Many thanks for this guide. It helped a lot 👍

@DieselThunderAviation 3 месяца назад

Glad to hear!

@stevep4131 Год назад

Big thank you for this video. Very thorough, very good overview of my favourite plane. And yes, landing needs concentration. Lots of concentration! It's a good challenge but I do wonder whether the real plane could have been as difficult or there would have been a lot more landing accidents?

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! I’ve thought about that, and I’d like to think we have it worse in DCS. We have to rely purely on visuals where in the real thing you would feel the movements and be able to apply timely corrections.

@Bronco-1776 6 месяцев назад

I trialed this thing last year for 2 weeks and never even got it off the ground so I uninstalled it and stayed with my P-51. Just trialed this Spitty again and for some reason I have no problem taxiing and taking off now. Still can't land it yet, but this video will help me. This time I'm going to keep it.

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

That's awesome, glad to have helped! That's a great aircraft, though landing that one consistently will take some practice. So satisfying when you nail that landing the first time!

@bcsnapier 4 месяца назад

Maybe I missed this but there was no pre-check on QNH. The ocean was very close but the altimeter showed an aerodrome elevation of already 1000 ft. The altimeter is also a very important instrument when you are going to land and particularly in bad weather. Otherwise a great video. I learned a lot about the Spitfire Mk IX. Thanks.

@DieselThunderAviation 4 месяца назад

Excellent observation! I have that noted for an upcoming warbird video. Glad you’re enjoying the channel!

@TheRaptorXX Год назад

BRILLIANT tutorial, the best I've seen (and I've seen a few!!). Thanks DT!! 👍 By the way, a LOT of Spit pilots were killed during training, especially T/O and landing!! 😉

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! After spending a fair amount of time flying her, I can see why there were a lot of accidents, not terribly forgiving if you don't fly the approach right!

@TheRaptorXX Год назад

@@DieselThunderAviation Just down the road from me is ahere there used to be a Spit Training Airfield from WW2. Clostermann actually did some training there. Someone was telling me of the casualties involved in just accidents. Can't remember the exact figures but I DO remember it raised an eyebrow!

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

Is that field on the new Normandy map in DCS? Especially with low time pilots, I can see that number being high. Similar story with the F4U Corsair, more of them were lost in training than in combat.

@TheRaptorXX Год назад

@@DieselThunderAviation Unfortunately not. The field is a wee bit further North. It's up in Shropshire, on the Welsh border. A place called Rednal. A WAAF, Leading Aircraft's Woman, Margaret Hay, who was posted there recalls, "Rednal seen a number of famous faces either go through the training system, or put on a refresher course for a 'rest' or arriving at Rednal as part of the Staff. In fact one of Rednal's Commanding Officers was, Don Finlay, who was C/O of 41 Squadron during the Battle of Britain and a pre-war Hurdles Champion and he could be seen every morning running around the perimeter track at Rednal. Perhaps the most celebrated pilot to be trained at Rednal was the French fighter ace Pierre Clostermann who detailed his experiences in his book "The Big Show"."

@TheRaptorXX 7 месяцев назад

@@DieselThunderAviation By the way, have you some sort of Mod in the cockpit? I only ask because things like the 'on' and 'off' for things like the pitot heat switch are so clear. Mine are a little blurry even though I have my cockpit rez set at 1040...

@tofajvito 6 месяцев назад

Thunder, I've loved airplanes since I was young, especially Spitfires... one of my favourite books is The Great Circus (P. Clostermann). And I've always wanted to fly one, and I found that the DSC could offer me just that. Just one little thing: when the Slovenian Army was doing a promotion for aviation 15+ years ago, we journalists had the opportunity to fly a Pilatus, and during the 1 hour or so flight, the pilot let me take the controls...and it was wonderful. Anyway, it's only now, much older, in fact just about to retire, that I found DSC and I've entered that world, I've bought the equipment and I'm learning. Well, I haven't mounted the pedals yet, I'm doing everything slowly. I can say that you are my teacher for flying with a spin. I have watched the video at least 20 times so far... ...but I still can't find something: where can I map the command for the fuel cut off lever? Or is the command called something else? If you can help, I will be glad. Once again, thank you for the wonderful video and I wish you all the best in 2024...and in all the years to come. Vito

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

That's awesome! And similar for me, loved aviation since I was a kid. Think you'll really like using the pedals! Glad you enjoyed the video! Have more of these coming, as I plan on doing all of the warbirds. I'll be in the sim later today and can find what that cutoff lever is called. One thing you can do, especially if you have tool tips turned on (a setting in the main menu options, should be on by default), is to hover your mouse over a control. The tool tip box should pop up with the exact name of that control which you can then look for in the controls page. I'll post back here later today once I find it.

@tofajvito 6 месяцев назад

@@DieselThunderAviationThank you very, very much!!! I'll do as you've suggested, DT!!!

@tofajvito 6 месяцев назад

DT, I've found it... It's called idle cut-off... Best wishes and regards from Slovenia!

@flightenvy680 Год назад

excellent video and over view of the spit. totally agree with landing, its a very difficult art to master. ive got over a hundred hours flying the spitfire, but landing is still troublesome.

@RebelNine Год назад

I very much agree with you on ‘landing’ the Spitfire. A consistant ‘three point’ landing remains beyond me at present but, have had better results flying along the runway and ‘stepping down’ for a two wheeled landing

@flightenvy680 Год назад

@@RebelNine yep, i seem to nail a decent 3 point landing about 50 to 60 percent of the time. it is such a handfull on the ground.

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! She sure is a handful on the landing!

@patrickoneill2726 Год назад

Crazy how fast England was training new pilots in the spit

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

As fast as 6 months at one point, I think?

@patrickoneill2726 Год назад

@@DieselThunderAviation yes in the early days of the war, I read an article one pilot claiming only 65 hours

@RebelNine Год назад

Nice - Thank you

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!

@RebelNine Год назад

@@DieselThunderAviation I envy your high speed internet. To upload a 8min 2k video takes me 3hrs on my connection!!!

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

Ouch! I like our internet service. The final cut of this video came in at 30 GB, and it was uploaded in about 4-5 hours (my download speed is a lot faster). A lot of times I can have an upload goIng and fly MP on DCS.

@RebelNine Год назад

@@DieselThunderAviation Interesting… My 8min video was 32 GB !!! New to FCP so, still ‘finding my feet’. Turns out I’m encoding using Apple’s ProRes; Ooops! Definitely overkill for RU-vid 🤣

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

Not familiar with that program. I'm using Davinci Resolve, MP4 format with H.264 encoding.

@attackdebris 10 месяцев назад

Very useful guide on the might fine DCS Spitfire, thanks Diesel. Any ETA/plans to make the Spitfire combat guide you mention?

@DieselThunderAviation 10 месяцев назад

Thanks! Funny you mention that, I should have one out later today. It won’t be the combat guide. Rather it is from our squadrons weekly event, Warbird Wednesday. Lot of aerial combat in that and I do talk about dogfighting with the Spitfire in it.

@attackdebris 10 месяцев назад

Oh, sounds good! I'll be sure to check it out when it lands. I need all the tips I can get - now I can almost land it satisfactorily 😀

@itzgood421 День назад

Anything in this video on the vhf radio usage?

@cyborgbadger1015 Месяц назад

Need a vid on how to care for the black labrador squadron mascot.

@DCS_World_Japan 7 месяцев назад

I may have missed it but I didn't see the fuel pump switch turned on before flight. That should be on or you'll have issues with fuel feed at higher altitudes.

@DieselThunderAviation 7 месяцев назад

This particular variant had both the engine driven mechanical pump and the electric pump. We can use either so long as one remembers to activate fuel tank pressurization once past around 16,000 feet.

@okakokakiev787 11 месяцев назад

I miss having aeliron trim in a spitfire. My stick is slightly off centered in the neutral. Its so convenient in a Mustang. Spitfire sucks when you need to travel long range. Needs constant correction

@okakokakiev787 11 месяцев назад

Once you get used to landing its easy simply because the landing speed is extraordinarily low and its extremely easy to slow down. Landing spitfire doesn't require any planning. Can do it quickly

@DieselThunderAviation 11 месяцев назад

I miss having the aileron trim too, but we get the other two. Even in the aircraft with all three I tend to used the rudder and elevator trim the most. For the landing, it’s one of the more difficult ones to learn, and I thought the Bf-109 was tough.

@okakokakiev787 11 месяцев назад

@@DieselThunderAviation have you tried i16 landing?

@DieselThunderAviation 11 месяцев назад

I have, and for as easy as it is to fly once airborne, that particular bird has terrible handling on both takeoff and landing.

@SCYTHE2525 8 месяцев назад

You mentioned a push button that injected oil into the engine. So what's with the warning about not using oil referring to?

@DieselThunderAviation 8 месяцев назад

Good question! That would be the oil dilution button located on the left cockpit wall, just outboard of the seat. Oil gets thicker as it gets colder, especially in wintertime. pushing that button will squirt gasoline into the crankcase which helps by thinning out the oil and reducing the oil pressure to allow a good warmup. In warmer temperatures it's not needed, but use is recommended when it's cold outside, around 40ºF or 5ºC and below.

@barryrrab 5 месяцев назад

been playing a lot with the spitfire, cant get the plane to fly straight...why?

@DieselThunderAviation 5 месяцев назад

May want to check your key bindings, especially the axis settings. DCS has a habit of auto-mapping them in unusual ways. Quite often the stick axis gets mapped to toe brakes on pedals for example. If that isn’t it and you are just having a hard time keeping straight and level, use the trim. Rudder trim first and then elevator trim.

@sebywest3736 8 месяцев назад

greetings, I'm new to the channel and support for the channel and it's very well explained in the video what each button and device means, I hope it has the same for American planes, especially for Mustang👌🤗🛩

@DieselThunderAviation 8 месяцев назад

Howdy, and welcome! Glad you enjoyed it, and I have more of these to make! Plan on doing these for each warbird.

@sebywest3736 7 месяцев назад

@@DieselThunderAviation that's very nice of you and thank you very much, today I will buy this plane in DCS because of you because you explained everything about it nicely, how it is used and what it is for 🤗🤗

@jesselo1969 Год назад

My son and I are familiar with MIcro Soft Flight Sim 2004 and now 2020, Im wanting to get started on DCS World, i have Steam acct. do you recommend this platform?

@DieselThunderAviation Год назад

I started on Steam with DCS but have since shifted over to the stand alone version. Couple of good reasons to be on stand alone; there are better sales than on Steam, and you have access to the free trial program where you can try nearly any aircraft free for two weeks, every 6 months. Also with the stand alone version, you get a new user discount, which gives you 50% off your first purchase in DCS, not available on Steam. Lastly, there’s also a loyalty program that earns you points with every purchase, that can be used on future purchases. My recomendation is to go with the stand alone version. Hope this helps!

@jesselo1969 Год назад

Thank you, going to look into it. Things have come a long way from the early 2000s and flight sims like Strike Fighters WOE,

@Madd0g5148 5 месяцев назад

If you can walk away... it's a good landing 😂

@DieselThunderAviation 5 месяцев назад

If you can use the aircraft again, it’s a great landing! 😁