DR1 Roll

[sluggish]

As long as the prop is turning over, engine will restart. Just like starting a car with a manual shift rolling down a hill. Drop it into gear, key on, pop the clutch and vrrrmooom away you go.

WWI planes, fixed wooden prop, at 50 mph and above creates a lot of force on the prop, enough to keep it windmilling over. Turn the spark back on and VrrrOOOOOOOoooooom away you go again.

That may be true but it's more than a little gamey.  I think if you're under a certain airspeed (to be determined by someone with much greater knowledge and authority than I)you shouldn't be able to restart in the air.

[FLS]

That may be true but it's more than a little gamey.  I think if you're under a certain airspeed (to be determined by someone with much greater knowledge and authority than I)you shouldn't be able to restart in the air.

It only seems gamey because you don't know what you're talking about. Cutting the engine, "blipping", was normal and is modeled correctly.

[JunkyII]

Sounds like my ex

[Motherland]

That may be true but it's more than a little gamey. 

Someone should have let the WWI pilots know this...

[sluggish]

Someone should have let the WWI pilots know this...

There's a big difference between momentarily hitting the kill switch to bring rpms down and shutting the motor off to maneuver through a turn.  No one shut their engine of for twenty seconds at a time.

[TequilaChaser]

There's a big difference between momentarily hitting the kill switch to bring rpms down and shutting the motor off to maneuver through a turn.  No one shut their engine of for twenty seconds at a time.

shut your engine off for "20 seconds at a time" during a WWI Arena turn fight with me and you will not reach the 20 second mark, you will be back in the tower......

if someone did that to you, then you need to   Train & Practice    

[sluggish]

shut your engine off for "20 seconds at a time" during a WWI Arena turn fight with me and you will not reach the 20 second mark, you will be back in the tower......

if someone did that to you, then you need to   Train & Practice    

Shut your motor off, dive into a steep left turn, turn the motor back on to let the torque pull you out.  Turn your motor off for five seconds, turn it back on as you dive into a steep right turn, shut it back off to pull you back out.  You have just increased the Dr.1's roll rate by about 1/3.  This is probably why the throttle is actually on the stick; using the throttle is an integral part of controlling the Dr.1.  Turning the engine on and off is gamey.

Practice and train indeed.

[TequilaChaser]

you went from:

shutting the motor off to maneuver through a turn. No one shut their engine of for twenty seconds at a time.

to now:

Shut your motor off, dive into a steep left turn, turn the motor back on to let the torque pull you out.

then to this:

Turn your motor off for five seconds, turn it back on as you dive into a steep right turn, shut it back off to pull you back out.

1st, are you looking at ROLL Rate?  or Turn Rate?

second, your 1st post was about "turning a motor off for 20 seconds and turning, without any mention of Steep Diving"

but your follow up was about "Turn Motor off and Steep Diving, then turning it back on, then turning it back off for 5 secs, then turning it back on"

you mention you increase Roll Rate, but you are describing turning and using the motor kill/restart and torque to assist the Turn.....

I am simply just trying to figure out which subject you are talking about now....you lost me with all of the different descriptions.....

I thought your initial post was describing turning off your engine for 20 seconds in a Turn....... you didn't mention what type of turn, so one would most likely assume a horizontal turn.....

oh well........

have fun 

[sluggish]

You do realize that roll is an integral part of a turn, don't you?

[Ghosth]

Your doing good sluggish, just keep digging!

[W7LPNRICK]

MWAHAHAHA! You guys are a riot!  

[Shuffler]

You do realize that roll is an integral part of a turn, don't you?

No but I did know it's something you can butter.

[hitech]

Turn prop off, go into zoom, prop stops, takes about 100 or more mph dive to restart.

HiTech

[bmwgs]

Turn prop off, go into zoom, prop stops, takes about 100 or more mph dive to restart.

HiTech

HiTech, let me make sure I understand this.  In R/L WW1 planes, if the pilot kills the engine then they have to be somewhere around 100 mph or better to start the engine again?  So in other words killing your engine in a slow turn fight would in essence be suicide.

I understand the Aces High modeling may be different, I was just wondering about R/L fighters in WW1.

Fred

[W7LPNRICK]

>100mph If the prop stops...slow turn engine kill is OK as long as prop is turning fast enough to catch.