P47 main fuel hits bug

[Citabria]

apparently the main fuel hit box is the size of a small planet because I have yet to be hit in a p47 and not get a main fuel tank leak.

please investigate.

[PFactorDave]

I think the main fuel tank IS the size of a small planet...   The only things bigger that I know of are the radiators in 109s and the oil in 190s...     

[bustr]

Fester,

You will have to argue these results with Hitech.

I used the Yak9U as the shooting fighter.

I put all P47 in the drone circuit and from 200 back low 6 off angle used only the 50cal in taps. 4 rounds average per tap. All of the 47's suffer the same fuel leak, then flame that the Fw19-D9 does, same shot areas. The low side angle from the wing rear edge fuslage junction forward below the wing line under the pilot if hit by a single tap from the Yak's 50cals will make a fuel leak. Then a second or third tap directly into the leak causes a flame. It seems once the fuel leak is present the aircraft is more suseptable to subsiquent damage if you don't ignite the leak. Sometimes in trying to ignite the leak the burst instead passes through and kills the pilot more often in the D11, D25 and M.

Here are the P47 by their sturdiness or resistance to the test. Strongest down to weakest. But, they all have the same leak from the same shot low off angle. I only accidentaly caused a single oil leak/black smoke trail. Otherwise these airframes are very resistant to damage.

P47N
P47D-40
P47D-25
P47M
P47D-11

[Noir]

if the AUX fuel tank could be fufl whatever the % you take that would be a start

[lulu]

I took main fule damage in p47N and ... DAMN ... IT WORKS GREAT    LOL


 

[smoe]

The F4U-4 has the small planet sized fuel tank as well.

[bj229r]

That's why I invariably take the 75% load and no drop in the "N"---(42 minutes) after the predictable 'main fuel' hit....the are 17 min in the aux/wings (truly less, as the plane doesnt fly well with a full aux, so I always drain half of THAT before switching to main. Prolly gonna fly M all month....out of 8 or 9 flights last night, got 4 main-fuels (can't hit squat either....gunnery is ALL different from N)

[WWhiskey]

I launch with 3/4 or full of fuel and switch to main fuel only almost right away,,  in the M,,,  the reserve gives you 10 minutes of fuel and rarely gets hit,,, this has been a problem for a few years
 not long after the M was released.

 it would be nice if the self sealing tanks at least kind of worked!!!!!

[bj229r]

Earlier jugs have same issue as M....ya just don't fly them as often to notice

[WWhiskey]

Earlier jugs have same issue as M....ya just don't fly them as often to notice

You are rite, I fly the N and the M more than the rest,  I would go back to mid war tho, if I had the D-25 in there, it doesn't seem fair to only have the 11

[bj229r]

You are rite, I fly the N and the M more than the rest,  I would go back to mid war tho, if I had the D-25 in there, it doesn't seem fair to only have the 11

biggest reason I dont go there...cant compete with PJ's and spit9's with 11 (not like 25's are THAT much easier)

[RTHolmes]

definite bug this, or possibly 3 bugs ...

1. Aux tank vs Main tank hits. from most angles the chance of hitting either tank should be roughly the same. from dead 6, ~90% chance of hitting aux tank.

2. Main tank is far too easy to damage. apart from the engine and the plate behind the pilot seat, the fuel tanks were the pilots armour.

3. Jugs Flambé. Something changed a year or so back so that a fuel hit now almost guarantees a fire and hence a destroyed jug. I never used to burst into flames, since the change it happens all the time.

[bj229r]

The other thing that always happens---lose half of right wing. I used to leave the sideways portions of my 4-way hat on the CH stick JUST for saving the plane after I lost a half wing (aileron trim) But I noticed that it's ALWAYS the right wing that either gets half-way or completely taken off, to the extent that I mapped that trim button to something else

[fuzeman]

Could there be an issu with teh self sealing part of this eekuation?

Misspelt deliberately so HiTech could understand it. 

[bustr]

So research chemgum self-sealing fuel tanks in the P47.