rain

[Bruv119]

the new sausage clouds are perfect for a rain shower.   

how cool would it be to see it drizzle across the windshield or be sat in a tank and hear the patter on your tin can.

[Lusche]

or be sat in a tank and hear the patter on your tin can.

An enemy M16 will cause the same effect! 

[bustr]

Hitech has had to turn off the cloud system while he fixes something. I've tested the new weather and it's superior to the old cloud system. there will be some rules to it as there was to the old system.

Here is some testing from the new system.

[lunatic1]

WW2 combat aviation, and even aviation a long time after, was a fair-weather deal only. The reason we had D-Day when we did was because it was the only time in several weeks where the clouds would break and the weather would clear up only for a couple of days, and then after that we had major offensives without any air cover whatsoever, troops in Europe cut off with no hope of supplies because of weather.


Weather killed. You didn't perform combat ops in it. It's just a general rule of WW2 air combat. As soon as the weather cleared up both sides prepared, because they knew either THEY would do something or the ENEMY would do something and they'd have to go up and stop them.

No offense, but might as well request Sharknados be modeled into the game. Cool to look at, but had nothing to do with WW2 air combat.

that's right.

[bustr]

When I was a kid in the 60's my father flew out of the Ft. Sam Houston Flying Club at Kelly AFB. There were times we would fly between clouds over Texas that you could see the rain sheets dropping out of. No one ever flew under or through those clouds, they just enjoyed the safe passage to get past them while watching the show.

[save]

Most players who try to land a tail-dragger IRL in gusty winds conditions will fail miserably.

[Mister Fork]

While I agree rain would add a 'cool' element, back in the day, when it's 75ºF, it's like 0ºF at 20000ft. Which, if it rains at 20'000ft, it's freezing rain.  And NO aircraft back in WWII had any gear or equipment to deal with freezing rain. No anti-ice boots, no pitot tube heaters, no real windshield defoggers. Wipers were people who cleaned your cockpit glass before takeoff - not something to clear rain from your windscreen.

Even at 10'000ft, you're at danger of rime or SLD icing. So in WWII, all flights were 'fair weather engagements'.