self sealing fuel tanks

[AirFlyer]

How it's modeled is arguable, but there is no doubt that it is emulated in some form. If your used to flying one of the tougher birds like the later American and German planes, switch over to an A6M for a couple of days. You'll be amazed at how even 7.7mm easily leave multiple white streams flowing out of your plane if your careless.

[Crash Orange]

Don't want to get holes in your Blue Birds, fly smarter. I've been flying them since i started and running out of fuel from a hit is rare for me. If I'm going to fly a blue plane into ack on purpose I'll have a drop tank or I'll keep fuel in the wings on the F4U-1 and -1A.

Good game tactics, but I think that's a flaw in the game modeling. IIRC standard procedure in the hogs that had wing tanks was to purge them with CO2 as soon as action looked imminent. Also IIRC standard procedure for all US fighters was to drop tanks before entering action. Those tanks weren't close to as well protected as the main tanks.

In Blackburn's book The Jolly Rogers he tells about a serious problem they discovered in the -1A, namely that the switch to purge the tanks was right next to the identical switch for the CO2-powered emergency landing gear drop, which dropped the gear in such a fashion that it couldn't be raised again in flight - so a pilot who mistook the switches in the excitement of entering action would render his plane instantly unfit for combat.

[Matrix]

 

 Krusty you sure picked a good name for yourself!        If you wrote the code for the a/c modeling then by all means carry-on if you didn't, well then.     My thread simply posed a question, nothing more nothing less. No need to RANT!!

[Krusty]

I assure you, I have not ranted here. My direct response to you was simply explaining with in-game examples how we already have self-sealing tanks, based on your implication that we did not. Everybody else here has agreed (yet I note you have not claimed they are all ranting, too?). I tried to phrase it in a way to help you think about the issue more clearly, so that you could compare planes like the A6M to planes like the P-51. In that example it's very clear how the different planes exhibit fuel leaks.

Please keep in mind that this game has been around for a decade. A lot of this has been discussed, and over the many many years often the game creators themselves come out and say something explicitly. It's all old hat, and posts like yours are not uncommon. Don't worry about it. I hope we answered all your questions.

[E25280]

Krusty . . . . No need to RANT!!

A lot of us have seen Krusty rant about a lot of things, but he hasn't done anything in this thread that even approaches a rant.  Ramble a bit, maybe, but not rant.

 

[whiteman]

Good game tactics, but I think that's a flaw in the game modeling. IIRC standard procedure in the hogs that had wing tanks was to purge them with CO2 as soon as action looked imminent. Also IIRC standard procedure for all US fighters was to drop tanks before entering action. Those tanks weren't close to as well protected as the main tanks.

In Blackburn's book The Jolly Rogers he tells about a serious problem they discovered in the -1A, namely that the switch to purge the tanks was right next to the identical switch for the CO2-powered emergency landing gear drop, which dropped the gear in such a fashion that it couldn't be raised again in flight - so a pilot who mistook the switches in the excitement of entering action would render his plane instantly unfit for combat.

Good game tactics, but I think that's a flaw in the game modeling. IIRC standard procedure in the hogs that had wing tanks was to purge them with CO2 as soon as action looked imminent. Also IIRC standard procedure for all US fighters was to drop tanks before entering action. Those tanks weren't close to as well protected as the main tanks.

In Blackburn's book The Jolly Rogers he tells about a serious problem they discovered in the -1A, namely that the switch to purge the tanks was right next to the identical switch for the CO2-powered emergency landing gear drop, which dropped the gear in such a fashion that it couldn't be raised again in flight - so a pilot who mistook the switches in the excitement of entering action would render his plane instantly unfit for combat.

Read the book and that was Ens Perce Divenny and he was KIA because of the mistake but this is just a game and until HTC grounds me for flying a time bomb through ack I'll keep doing it.

[Crash Orange]

but this is just a game and until HTC grounds me for flying a time bomb through ack I'll keep doing it.

Wasn't trying to imply you shouldn't.