I have crunched the numbers, and think I have the formulas for climb and ceiling in WGS.
I apologize for the figures being in the English system (should we call it the American system now, since the English don’t use it any more ), but it seemed to fall into place, and I didn’t feel like converting it.
Ceiling: 8 = 21-24K feet
9 = 24-27K feet
10 = 27-30K feet
11 = 30-33K feet
12 = 33-36K feet
13 = 36-39K feet
14 = 39-42K feet.
Climb rate: 2 = 3-3.5K f/m
3 = 2.5-3K f/m
4 = 2-2.5K f/m
5 = 1.5-2K f/m
6 = 1-1.5K f/m
7 = .5-1K f/m
No idea what 9 is (B-17 and Lancaster) except it’s really slow.
There are a number of anomalies, as you would expect.
For Ceiling:
Spitfire Mk.Is: everything I’ve found puts them in the 34K band, so 12 for ceiling.
Ju-87s must be using a loaded value, as their rated ceiling is 26,900’ ceiling 9
The A6M2 Zeros again appear to be using A6M5 values, since they should be at ceiling 12 or even a high 11.
For Climb:
Fw-190D should have a climb of 2; however, if you use the sources for the CR 3, then the ceiling goes down to 11, as it’s the FB version.
Bell P-40D: CR is pretty decent until 15K’, then drops off. Still not sure if it should be a 3 or 4.
P-51D Mustang: half the sources say 3,200f/m, so a CR of 2, the other half CR 3.
Ki-43 Oscar: I could only find 1 source for CR and its 2830f/m. CR 3?
I couldn’t find much on the various I-16 Ratas; probably in Russian language sources that aren’t showing up on Google.
That’s what I got; I’ll start updating the table this week.
As always comments are welcome.
Karl
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