Yes watching the temp gauge if you shut it off and on and manage it you can fly half a grid max, but you have to have some serious alt in order to do this. Taking a radiator hit in a FW the engine will cease running much quicker then say a P-51 which takes a radiator hit. Running full power in every plane I have been hit in, the FW dies rather quickly in comparison to the others modeled in here. One other note is Ground fire set to aim at engine/elevators only? I would say ack deaths around 80% of the time are hits to the elevators/engine. Other 20% is a combination of these 2 and other systems. In my other post in question is hte durability of the FW engine, noted for having armor cowlings, and its main design was to act as a shield for the pilot to bomber fire. Engines being hit multiple times losing multiple cylinders would still bring the pilot back. As it is now, engine hit equals certain death for a FW pilot. The F-8 seems to be made of balsa wood, another interesting fact, FW pilots when attacking bomber would flip there AC so the bottom was facing the gunners fire, having extra armor installed on the lower portion of the AC was vital for there escape. This was incorporated in the 190 A-8, and should be in the F-8 as well.
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Sturm6 StaffelKapitän
JV44 Platzschutzstaffel
Airfield Defense Squadron
