Plane Stuff: TAS is what equivalent, IAS too?

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In lots of wiki pages it says best flight ceiling for planes varies by up to 5000ft, optimal 2000ft, the most I can fly at without alot of effort, varies on campaign but around 700 max on Moscow, Tunisia, so it makes me think the measurement for height and speed is a different metric…

I also know that WT and EL are different gameplay wise, but if I climb to 700, what is that equivalent too?

I don’t have game open, I just want to know equivalent altitude and speed, ie 350TAS is 500mph?

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TAS is true airspeed and IAS is indicted airspeed, IAS is mostly accurate a few hundred meters above sea level while TAS is always accurate

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To expand…true airspeed is your speed above the ground. IAS is what is on your airspeed indicator.

So true airspeed would be airspeed with a possible tailwind, which would make you go faster.

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This is false, TAS is not ground speed, TAS is your indicated airspeed corrected for atmospheric conditions and instrument error. Ground speed is literally ground speed.

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Yea your right I just looked it up. It’s been over 2 years since I have flown so I’m rusty. Kids will do that to ya. GA is way to expensive now

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Yeah same, I haven’t flown in over 2 years either