War Thunder // Fighter School: Climbing Basics 

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I'm fine with anything with narration.

i prefer text

I prefer the text-based narration

I'd say 2 or 3. The audio narration you did probably isn't anywhere as bad as you think it is, and getting good at narrating things for a video might come in handy for some reason in the future so it's not a bad idea to practice it now. The Factorio RU-vidr Michael Hendriks used to only do text commentary and was worried about how his commentary was, but everyone seemed to like his voice and commentary when he switched to audio narration. It couldn't hurt to give it a try for a few videos, you can always go back to text commentary if people don't like the voice over, or if doing the commentary stresses you out for some reason.

I'm not currently using any sound mods.

So long as I continue to hold the free look button, it will not return to cursor aim mode.

Or spitfire

It's best not to clutter up a basic tutorial with things people don't absolutely need to know.

This was a mountain map, where both airfields were already kilometers above sea level. Without that head start, I wouldn't've climbed so high.

I was about to ask that same question 😄

Any answer to this?

Go and see the adamtheenginerd video about climbing, and there are several lists in the internet with the best climb IAS speed of each plane

The biggest factor here is the difference in energy states. Is the other aircraft actually keeping pace with you as you zoom, or are they simply following you--even as you're pulling away--because they know they will eventually catch up?

@@Renta352 I see it now. Now that I reconstruct the fight in my mind, I can see that I could have determined that by tracking what my opponent was doing before a zoom.

@@roughrider4048 If you do have the energy advantage, keep Boom-n'-Zooming. Just make sure not to drop below your best climb speed. If you don't, and you're not getting away in a zoom climb, your only option with an F2A against a P-36 is to accept a turnfight. And with two aircraft so similar as they, you'll need to beat their pilot, not their plane. Trick them. Feint going one way and then go the other, unexpectedly chop throttle and then rev up again, suddenly kick the rudder, etc.

Graph climb against speed, pretty tedious

I usually look up historical references and test different climb speeds with a stopwatch to see which is fastest.

@@Renta352 Thank you, respect for your patience doing things like that. You wouldnt happen to know a list of trustworthy optimal climb speeds for some of the most common/popular fighters? Still a newbie and see different numbers for the sama planes. I only do props and look for numbers for the various versions of P51s, Bf109s, Fw190s, Spits/Typhoons etc.

Kiwi has an old climb chart. Should be possible to google it. I use it to great effect.

​@@soderstadion77 All of my Fighter School videos on specific aircraft--and all of my gameplay videos that have commentary--have their optimal climb speeds listed, usually in yellow. Most planes I haven't done a video on, I have yet to test.

I have to find optimum climbing airspeed by going through many trials of testing different climb speeds with a stopwatch. The thing with shallower climbs is just by feel; past a certain speed range, you will really notice that your extra speed doesn't make up for the lower climb rate.

uhhh...no. this is a skill issue i am afraid.

it is not a skill issue, the i225 out climbs and out speeds the bf 109g6 at every altitude, it also turns well enough to hang with a bf 109g6

If he's above you them dive, if he's not follow you climb to force a scissor fight. If he's follow you them he will compress at 700 kph and then you can turn and re engage on his six. Would work better in F-109-F4 or FW-190A but G6 can do it just fine.

Which model of Me.109? Earlier variants have lower climb speeds.

230 is basically stalling wth 💀

@@robertmatzenauer1456spits love to climb at them speed In my experience but it has been 4yrs since I played the game

Because it's an online game and I don't know whether the person in the other side is male or female. All I can see about them is a username; they could be a very advanced bot for all I know.

@@Renta352 touché