sometime back i posted a question about fuel used for aircraft,as i thought this game used the same for all aircraft.i have been told that it uses historic data for each aircraft as to what was available, GREAT!,now the questions and wishlist.i have heard from modelers,vets and people on here that luftwaffe A/C and italian A/C used by luftwaffe,would suddenly spew black smoke and keep doing it when the throttle was maxed out(firewalled) due to the NASTIES using sythetic fuels based on charcol/coal....in real life many probable kills were recored or allied pilots disengaged when they saw the smoke...but the luft A/C was not really hit. why isnt this aspect modeled in the game?(WISH)....next. my understanding of flamable fuel is.in open air,liquid fuel is hard to ignite,the fumes however are easy to ignite,so we mix fuel with air to create a vapor for ignition....so if you hit a fuel tank on an enemy A/C why cant you ignite the fuel vapor trail with tracer rounds? i have seen gun camera films of this happening at low altitude ,but not on here.not at any altitude(wish).and finally engine damage.many combat reports of engines getting hit and running poorly...but keep running at a lower performance level.in real life these planes sometimes flew all the way home. cant we model this in the game and if no radiator or oil leaks keep the engine running at a lower performance and say coughing,huffing,puffing,etc?? (WISH)
RE:Burning fuel leakage.
It has been my ev=experience that flying around with an active fuel leak seem to make me
more susceptible to bursting into flames at some point after being shot at again.
I would like to say "Wish Granted!!" on this one, but I'm not 100% sure. How about
wish granted?
RE: Engine damage
Coincidentally enough, I was beginning to believe just the opposite about our oil hits and continued flying.
I'm currently reading a book on the Korean Air War and so far have seen two encounters where F4Us have been hit in the engine by small arms fire and seized up within minutes. Makes me wonder about our gliding dead stick forever as well. Seems planes without running engines tend to act like bricks in real life. Of course they didint have an autopilot that would keep you on the edge of a stall forever either.
Anyway, back to engines. The other side of my argument is I have also read of two accounts of radiator hits in P-51s where the pilots were able to make it back to England without glycol by keeping the engine in an overly rich fuel state by constantly pumping the engine priming knob? handle? The extra fuel being injected into the combustion chambers keeping the engine cool enough(?) to keep running. In both cases the pilots wore the skin off the palm of their hands in doing so, through the glove.
So, either way, I think what we have now is adequate.
wrongway