Slitherine

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*Engine: Don't brother using regular propeller engines unless you have a good mbar/gravity ratio, stick to turboprop/turbo jet and plasma engines

*Wings: Normally the bigger they're, the more payload and further you can go (due "gliding"), however, if you increase it too much it will slow down a lot the aircraft and it will severely shorten its range

*Fuel: You need at least 3K fuel if you want to achieve a +10 hex range, you can increase or decrease it depending on the final weight of the plane (due payload)

*Air to Air Weapons: You will always use missiles if available, they have the best attack score (for air and hard targets) and don't have a handicap for the first three combat rounds

*Air to Ground Weapons: If you want to kill tanks I suggest you to use rockets, they're kinda cheap, light and effective, precision bombs aren't bad but they get expensive to use fast, if you want to kill infantry the ordinary bombs payloads get very heavy and expensive to use extremely fast, I would suggest you to use tanks instead. If what you want to do its strategic bombing, you're way better using rocket/missile launchers since they do waaay more asset damage per attack and cost a ton less ammo wise.

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* Heavy Turboprop
* 10mts wings
* 3K fuel
* Medium Missiles and medium rockets

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ORIGINAL: Culthrasa

@daza, that's the atmospheric density number in the first screen shot, the precise number is:

So 384mbar :)

@clux, yeh sorry, could have mentioned that... I'm looking for a basic CAS fighter-bomber (some MG's and tank killing, nothing fancy). Only have access to bombs in the design I think.
But yeh, think you gave the answer, don't use prop in low grav/pressure :) that might be why all my designs where either invalid or had 2 range (even after 20 minutes of furious redesigns :)

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ORIGINAL: mattpilot

I dont understand.

I have 0.669 Bar and 0.98g which is = 0.682.


I have plenty of planes that fly well - including a transport that carries 250 up to 33 hexes (medium 2e). Other light aircraft fly up to 20-25 hexes, including thopters. Helicopters get up to 7-8 hexes.

My relevant AP techs are all around 50-70% done.


Why are aircraft working on my planet despite it being < 1 ?

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ORIGINAL: mattpilot

yea but even before i got the AP techs, my ultralight and light aircraft did 10 hexes easy

I'm just saying the < 1 ratio thing doesn't seem to apply in this case - i'm wondering why? what other factors are important?