Author Topic: Fuel Hits aka: DRAINO (Read 1277 times)

EagleDNY · « **on:** April 06, 2005, 05:57:06 PM »

So here I am in a B24, and I take a fuel hit over the target. This shouldn't be so bad, after all I have plenty of tanks of gas, and I've only got gas leaking out of one wing right? WRONG.

This scenario quietly sucks all the gas out of every tank on the plane, whether it was hit or not.

Can't we have fuel hits only drain the tank that gets hit? That in itself is bad enough, especially if you take into consideration the changing flight characteristics of having a single wing drained of fuel.

Would the engines in an empty wing stop when that wing runs out of gas, or would it just double up the fuel consumption on the other wing? (I'm betting that historically, this was dependent upon plane type)

Just a thought....

EagleDNY

airbumba · « **Reply #1 on:** April 06, 2005, 07:58:37 PM »

I'm not sure , but did u try shift F to manually choose tanks, instead of auto? don't know if that woulda helped tho?

Oleg · « **Reply #2 on:** April 07, 2005, 01:11:04 AM »

Generally fuel leaks from damaged tank only. May be there is bug with B-24.

sullie363 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 07, 2005, 01:29:09 AM »

You have to switch tanks, it's happened to me.

psob2 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 07, 2005, 05:10:51 AM »

i've also had a damaged fuel tank in B24. waited till tank with leak was almost empty, hit shift f to switch from damaged tank and kept flying. the other fuel tanks were undamaged

visually there was fuel leaking the whole way back to base from the now empty tank, but i guess thats some kind of minor graphic bug

DamnedRen · « **Reply #5 on:** April 07, 2005, 05:51:47 AM »

Fuel tanks have crossfeed valves if they are open (as in Auto Switching transfer) then you lose all your gas. If you manually switch tanks over it stops auto feed/transfer.

Ever notice how your fuel burns off on alot of the fighters? First, its EXT then it might be AUX then LW then RW then back to LW etc. It's auto feeding and maintaining an auto trim balance as you fly. Go to manual and watch your trims.

EagleDNY · « **Reply #6 on:** April 07, 2005, 10:35:19 AM »

I'll give it a shot. It still would be nice if auto (aka my crew) would pump the gas into the other tanks and then shut off the leak

If switching tanks manually stops me from losing all the gas, that will work.

thanks folks.
EagleDNY

JB73 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 07, 2005, 10:46:53 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by DamnedRen
Fuel tanks have crossfeed valves if they are open (as in Auto Switching transfer) then you lose all your gas. If you manually switch tanks over it stops auto feed/transfer.

Ever notice how your fuel burns off on alot of the fighters? First, its EXT then it might be AUX then LW then RW then back to LW etc. It's auto feeding and maintaining an auto trim balance as you fly. Go to manual and watch your trims.

i dont think HT has crossfeed valves modeled, though i could be wrong.

i do know in "auto" mode say in a 205 it flips back and forth from the RW and LW to keep the center of balance close to the middle, which would negate the crossfeed theory. if they were cross feed, you could drain from 1 position only and they would balance themselves out

GScholz · « **Reply #8 on:** April 07, 2005, 11:38:27 AM »

Well 73, they certainly have modelled the cross feed on the Dora radiator. One bullet hole and it even drains your bladder!

Schatzi · « **Reply #9 on:** April 07, 2005, 12:53:57 PM »

Dont know about bombers, but in Hurri i very often get fuel hits on one tank. This results in loosing the fuel from that tank and i can keep flying on the other two tanks (without swiching to manual fuel tank selection!).
The oly time i ever ran out of fuel due to damage was when bad luck stroke hard and all three fuel tanks took a hit.

hitech · « **Reply #10 on:** April 07, 2005, 01:10:10 PM »

Damage only drains the tank that is hit.

Fairly sure auto will switch tanks when the damaged one is dry.

If you are using manual, no tank swith will occure.

Anything different than this would be a plane specfic bug.
Ill take a look at the b24.

HiTech

EagleDNY · « **Reply #11 on:** April 07, 2005, 01:22:21 PM »

Hey HiTech

I haven't got any way to know how many fuel hits I took in the B24, but I did watch it all drain out on the E6B on the way home.
I had started with 50% fuel for an HQ run, and didn't make it home before fuel had all drained.

I suppose I should be happy that the fuel just drained - most B24s seem to just catch fire

EagleDNY

Schatzi · « **Reply #12 on:** April 07, 2005, 01:50:59 PM »

Hit 'Ctrl D' to get a 'damage list' on the left side of your screen. Green parts are still intact, red ones are damaged/have fallen off.