GREAT
GOOD
AVERAGE
POOR
LUMBERING

VERY FAST
(12.7 cm)

FAST
(11.4 cm)

AVERAGE
(10.2 cm)

SLOW
(9.5 - 9.6 cm)

VERY SLOW
(8.9 - 9 cm)

Maneuver decks sorted by agility:
DECK
AGILITY POINTS
VARIETY BONUS
TOTAL VALUE
This how the agility is calculated:

Each instance of the following cards adds the points towards the total value of the deck it is in.

  • 90 turn: 6
  • 90 turn ◇: 4
  • Immelmann: 5
  • Stall: 3
  • Wide slip upright: 2
  • Wide slip upright ◇: 1.3
  • Wide slip: 3
  • Wide slip ◇: 2
  • Slip: 1.5
  • Slip ◇: 1
  • Stall turn: 3
  • Stall turn ◇: 2
  • 60 turn: 3
  • 60 turn ◇: 2
  • 45 turn: 2
  • 45 turn ◇: 1.3
  • Short dive ◇: 1.5
  • 30 turn: 1
  • 30 turn ◇: 0.6

Assigning points to maneuvers is a tricky task. That's why i made just the top maneuvers stand out, leaving the rest with relatively low values. The steep maneuvers are at about 2/3 their non-steep variants, simply because you can plan only two of them in one turn. Maneuvers are very situational, and it is their variety what makes a good deck.

The width of wide slips corresponds with their speed, that's why the faster aircraft (with the arrow speed > 3.5 cm) must have the wide slips across the long side of their maneuver cards. So while the slower aircraft have tighter turns, the faster ones have more efficient wide slips.

The variety bonus rewards the variety of maneuvers in a deck. The basic maneuvers, which are always included, are ignored, and so are the steep maneuvers that have their non-steep version in the same deck (Stall is being an exception). Each maneuver type then adds 1.5 points. Both sides of the two-sided maneuvers are treated as separate cases, which naturally penalizes asymmetrical decks. The basic turns are awarded the bonus only if there is more than one type in the deck.
In this section, you can design your own deck, marked as Ω, and send it to both tables for comparison.
There are always 3 Straights, 1 Dive and 1 Climb at each deck.
Load an official deck to the form above to make your life easier. Then you can edit it and submit for evaluation.
This application by Jan Horinek, 2022 (v1.2).