Get rid of oil on windscreen

[Stang]

I see every other first person shooter or MMOG that has 50 times the blood and guts of AH getting sued every day.  Oh wait...

[DaddyAck]

I like the realism of the oil splatter.  Atleast the smoke and fumes do not choke out the pilot in the cockpit, though the more realistic the better!  IMHO

[Wurger]

Actually, the Bf109 and Fw190 both had tubes that ran along the windscreen that enabled the pilot to 'wash' off oil (or whatever else) with fuel, like your car windshield washer.  We need that capability added to AH

Also, I liked the oil leakage that Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe had, it would start spurting out and then keep getting denser and cover more of the windscreen the longer the engine ran.

Bazi
Cactus Air Force

[DaddyAck]

Originally posted by java45
I have NO issue with oil on windscreen but certainly DO have one with the blood that spatters there!!!!

IMO it's just not necessary to the outcome or the enhancement of AH. What it is, however, is a very realistic depiction of gore. Something our younger people ( namely those pre-teens and early teens that fly here ) can do very well without.

Have'nt we, as a society, already exposed them to enough of that?  Have'nt we made sure already that any feelings of humanity are negated by the desire to create a situation of blood and gore.......GET RID OF THE BLOOD htc before somegroup, interested in the welfae of children, files a lawsuit .

Oh man, here we go.  This is a "Combat" flight sim and not a petting zoo.  I do believe that if a bullet or shrapnel hits human flesh, blood is inevitable.  Not to mention this game already exposes those poor tender souls to the violence of SHOOTING in the first place!  If they are going to play a COMBAT simulation then they should expect on ocasion to see blood,  It is not like they actually depict brains hanging on the gun sight.  Children see more on console games.  Sorrry, I have to strongly disagree on that one.  

[Engine]

hehe, good job java

[grmrpr]

Other damage like blown cylinders and stuck valves would be nice.

On my presolo final check ride I had a valve stick open.  The engine performance dropped and it felt like I was riding in an unbalanced washing machine.  It was 110 degrees in phoenix and the density altitude was off the charts.  It was a chore getting the plane to climb back to alt (It stuck on throttle up after a simulated emergency decent) so we could land.  The whole time oil temp gauge going deeper and deeper into the red. We were only 15 miles from the airport.

Thank goodness it didn’t stick down and blow the cylinder.

Anchor great job getting that one down.  I can only imagine how tuff that was.

GrmRpr


For those detail nutz like me

--Cessna 172N was the ac.
--Field was KDVT Deer Valley
--Westwind Aviation
--Simulated Emergency Decent was done on AUX1 northwest of Goodyear and North of Luke.
--Didn't declare emergency- Had luke monitoring our progress home and KDVT had cleared us straight in and were aware of our situation.
--Instructor said I handled it well.  As soon as the problem hit I yelled it's your plane! and immediatly awaited positive exchange of controls back to him  After he got it back into the climb he gave it to me and told me to redo the emergency checklist he had just done and to land it.

[nopoop]

Originally posted by Wurger
Also, I liked the oil leakage that Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe had, it would start spurting out and then keep getting denser and cover more of the windscreen the longer the engine ran.

Yea that was cool. Also liked the engine fire that got worse as you flew. If you didn't put it down you were a flamer.

[AKFokerFoder+]

This thread has been punted.  

Sigh

[DipStick]

Originally posted by Guppy35
A picture is worth a thousand words.  Here are two thousand words worth of pictures to explain why complaining about the AH oil on the windscreen is silly.  If we had it like the real deal, you'd really be hurting.

Thankfully both these Jugs made it back ok.

Kinda doubt a rag  would have done much good

Dan

OK, how did they get home?

[Guppy35]

I'd imagine they had someone winging close by that talked em back while they were on instruments and they then had to crank back the canopy to land hoping not to get too much oil in the face.

There was no definitive explaination with the photos although the pilot of the bubble top jug was listed and was with the 350th FG in Italy.

Dan

[Kweassa]

More engine damage types would be terrific. When flying IL2/FB, on some occasions my throttle system was somehow damaged - the plane was stuck on full throttle and there was no way to slow down except turn the engine off in mid-air.

 Was a cool experience.

[SunTracker]

I can see the engine damage at the very top of the cowling.  What if the engine had been hit lower?

[beet1e]

Originally posted by DipStick
OK, how did they get home?

- and was the US Air Force fined because they got back late?

They got home because those radial engines could take enormous punishment and still function. IIRC they were air cooled, so the problem of taking a hit in the cooling system was not a factor. I once saw a picture of a plane with a radial engine, and one of the cylinders had been pretty much shot off - but the engine kept on going.

Now I'm not sure of the facts here, but consider this: In some cases, radial engines were built with two sets of radial cylinder arrangements, one behind the other. I would have thought that such an engine would be designed such that each set of cylinders has its own independent oil system, so that if one gets shot up, the other is still OK. That's probably what happened with those P47s.

Here is a picture of a P47 being rebuilt at Duxford. I'm fairly certain that what you can see here is two sets of radial cylinders on the same crankshaft.

[BUG_EAF322]

Here is a picture of a P47 being rebuilt at Duxford. I'm fairly certain that what you can see here is two sets of radial cylinders on the same crankshaft.

That looks good and new!!

[beet1e]

Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
That looks good and new!!

Yes! I like the spinner - as shiny as Creamo's head!