Question for unofficial stats gurus

[BB401]

Nor quite sure where this fits, so I dropped it here. Please redirect as/if needed. Having now spent many hours researching, developing, and producing scenarios, rules, stats for WWII Combat Gliders ( a work still in progress) I have had to reverse engineer a number of things based on available stats for currently available ARES planes and extrapolate from there. As I moved beyond a single plane (WACO CG-4) into other gliders of various sizes and capacities, it quickly became evident that a consistent set of factors and assumptions across aircraft was required. Knowing that Smart People on the forum have already done this for a wide range of unofficial aircraft, and wanting to maintain compatibility with both available and unofficial aircraft, have we published somewhere on the Forum a set of Factors and Assumptions that guide the creation of stats for unofficial planes? How do we take published stats for real-world craft and convert them into speed, ceiling, and damage for example? What real-world speeds are used (e.g., VNE, published Max, Cruise, etc., and in what configurations, at what altitudes)
Any/all assistance appreciated.

[Jager]

Hmm.... difficult for me to fully answer, some things are openly known, and some not so much.
Ceiling is in kilometers +1 rounded to the nearest.
Damage is empty weight in Kts times 2 plus 12. However, gliders are much flimsier than airplanes, so I would think much less.
I have not followed your threads on gliders; have you done a method for them losing speed, or are you trading speed for height constantly?
This would be a big problem with our game engine, and changing speeds.
Karl

[BB401]

For the gliders, there is no climb, just a loss of one peg every 4 maneuvers, except for dive which works as normal. They are all so slow you need to use the alternate movement card process pioneered by others on the 'drome.

[Jager]

Well, with the CG-4 at 1,769 kg, that would make the hits at 15; I'd be tempted to say -4 or -5 due to the lightness of construction, so a 10-11.
Really, if an opposing fighter gets in among these before drop, or worst, after, they are dead meat.
I can't recall any recorded instance of gliders flying into aerial opposition.
Karl

[BB401]

As regards speed, is "Fast" based on published Maximum Speed at sea level? How about Slow? Is that based on a published number, a fixed percentage of fast, or some other set of factors entirely? (e.g., a "cruise speed")