Oxygen equipment

[pembquist]

+1 for euphoric hypoxia, everything gets rosey, the sound of the engine mutes away to be replaced by gentle harp music and a feeling of well being and invicibility is simulated accurately, suffusing your entire consciousness and lulling you into a nice warm nap.

[Puma44]

You know what I mean, at 10k you don't have to worry about blacking out 

Actually I don't/didn't because your 3 minute and 10,000 feet reference doesn't correlate with anything realistic.

It would be interesting to have the black out occur at an appropriate altitude for aircraft that didn't have oxygen systems.

[Lusche]

It would be interesting to have the black out occur at an appropriate altitude for aircraft that didn't have oxygen systems.

Good luck getting your Storch that high...

[colmbo]

Lack of pressurised cabins should be a bigger concern. W/o it u are not able to go above 30k even w 100% oxygen. so the B-29 should be pretty much unchallenged above 30k.

Says who?  It's around 50K where you need a pressure suit, not 30k.

[Lusche]

And beyond that fact, we actually do have a high altitude fighter with a pressurized cockpit in game...

[xPoisonx]

Lack of pressurised cabins should be a bigger concern. W/o it u are not able to go above 30k even w 100% oxygen. so the B-29 should be pretty much unchallenged above 30k.

Meet the Ta-152 

[Puma44]

Says who?  It's around 50K where you need a pressure suit, not 30k.

In the USAF, we were restricted to 50 and below without a pressure suit, in a pressurized cockpit.

[Karnak]

Lack of pressurised cabins should be a bigger concern. W/o it u are not able to go above 30k even w 100% oxygen. so the B-29 should be pretty much unchallenged above 30k.

Ta152H-1 and Mosquito Mk XVI are also pressurized.

Unpressurized Spitfires were flown to altitudes over 40,000ft though, so unless you can think of a way to model the increased crew comfort of the three pressurized aircraft in AH I can't see a reason to concern ourselves about it in AH.

[FLOOB]

In WWI the germans used pressurized bombers when they bombed Britain.

[Lusche]

In WWI the germans used pressurized bombers when they bombed Britain.

How do you pressurize an open cockpit?


But more seriously, I don't know of any operational WWI planes utilizing cabin pressurisation at all. Which type you refer to?

[earl1937]

    There are some aircraft in the game, such as the I16, Brew ( no this is not linked to my hate of said AC) and a few other early war AC. I would like to see that if one of these AC goes above 10k for more than 3min that the pilot will start to black out as if the pilot had a PW and die with in 10min.

                                                                Coalcat1
                                                                   Have at it

Now, I believe in immersion in the game, but what you are asking for is a pressurized cockpit, because I don't think there are enough Army/Navy surplus stores in America to supply all the oxygen masks we would need in the game!

[FLOOB]

Matter of fact, incendiary tracer ammo was invented in WWI in britain for the very purpose of depressurizing german bombers.

[Lusche]

Oh, please...

[Zimme83]

Ta152H-1 and Mosquito Mk XVI are also pressurized.

Unpressurized Spitfires were flown to altitudes over 40,000ft though, so unless you can think of a way to model the increased crew comfort of the three pressurized aircraft in AH I can't see a reason to concern ourselves about it in AH.

You are probably right. I stand corrected.

[Zimme83]

Matter of fact, incendiary tracer ammo was invented in WWI in britain for the very purpose of depressurizing german bombers.

The Germans were primary using zeppelins for long range bombing. And depressurizing in this case mean that they were making holes in the zeppelin cases and hopefully ignited them. Its a completley different thing than what we discuss here.