WEP duration?

[mutha]

Can we get a list of aircraft initial WEP duration, and duration after recharge?

Mutha


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[Lusche]

For intitial WEP duration and recharge time, you can see that here for most planes: http://www.hitechcreations.com/wiki/index.php/WEP (IIRC, only B-29, Lancaster and Tu-2 are missing)

What's now still missing is the available number of cycles per plane.

[Zimme83]

Still wondering over the different wep times on  the Spit and P-51, and C.205 and Bf-109.

[mutha]

For intitial WEP duration and recharge time, you can see that here for most planes: http://www.hitechcreations.com/wiki/index.php/WEP (IIRC, only B-29, Lancaster and Tu-2 are missing)

What's now still missing is the available number of cycles per plane.

Thanks Lusche!

 

Mutha

[Randy1]

I thought the fix was no recharge time if wep was derived with a consumable like water.

[Krusty]

many craft that used an injection or additive had far more than one use of that substance onboard. The heat was the major issue. For example, Bf109s and Fw190s with MW50 injection onboard carried 30-35 MINUTES of the liquid. Some US planes with water injection also had 30 MINUTES onboard. When you look at AH flight times and 2x fuel burn and people taking 25% on higher-capacity-planes, most aircraft would run out of gas before they ever run out of WEP. That's not counting those that simply injected more gas into the cylinders, or those that just upped the compression and RPMs in the engine without needing an additional additive.

It's really a non-issue.

[popeye]

I'm guessing that the duration/recharge cycle times are proportional.  If I WEP a 5/10 aircraft for 1 minute, it will recharge fully in 2 minutes.  Yes?

[Lusche]

Yes?

Yes.

[bustr]

If Hitech really wanted to make some of the community beat their monitors with their keyboards, he would add the WEP time remaining to WEP recharge time remaining on the IAS\Speed HUD........

[popeye]

If Hitech really wanted to make some of the community beat their monitors with their keyboards, he would add the WEP time remaining to WEP recharge time remaining on the IAS\Speed HUD........

As long as it is modeled after the actual WWII HUD.   Oh, wait....   

An alternative would be an indicator lamp on the instrument panel that turns red when there is 30 seconds or less of WEP left, and turns green when
WEP is 100%.  Or, does the temperature gauge indicate WEP status?

[BowHTR]

Or, does the temperature gauge indicate WEP status?

Usually a good indication on how much WEP you have left.

[Vraciu]

Mustang WEP has been Nerfed by any measure. 

[shift8]

In reality the WEP times for most of these planes IRL was basically as long as the pilot needed. The time limitations for the engines in the manuals the the AH WEP times are based on exist for engine lifetime reasons. Destruction of the engine during a sortie is not really the issue. There are some planes that are exceptions, but the reality is that people ran WEP for as long as they needed to in combat without blowing their engines up in the process. There is plenty of pilot anecdotes regarding this, as well as documented WEP trials lasting over 7 hours.

[save]

And some Russian planes do that in AH2-3 already, without overheating anytme for some reason.

[Randall172]

just implement a REAL thermodynamic system w/ radiators, engine and oil temps and tie everything together.