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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: bagrat on February 07, 2006, 11:56:45 PM

Title: Emergency power
Post by: bagrat on February 07, 2006, 11:56:45 PM

What if instead of having an emergency power button, full throttle was fulll throttle (It would give e6b engine settings more of a purpose). Flying at full throttle for too long, to the point of overheating would cause the engine to be damaged. The engine wouldnt break, it just wont work 100%, you know so the newwer players wont be completely  penalized. To show the engine is overheating that greyish brown puff of smoke will begin to appear.

Just to add a little more piloting into the game.

Title: Emergency power
Post by: Saxman on February 08, 2006, 01:05:56 AM

I think it's been covered before that engine "overheats" may have impacted the overall life expectancy of the engine, but not down to a single mission.

Title: Emergency power
Post by: bagrat on February 08, 2006, 01:15:11 AM

in real life if i pilot were to fly full throttle continuosly from the time he took off, aside from burnin alot of gas there would be no effect on the planes performance for that sorty?

Title: Emergency power
Post by: Pooh21 on February 08, 2006, 01:34:59 AM

not very likely.


what should be modeled is if I stich a typh,lala,or runstangs engine up, it should take damage and not put out max power.

Hate seeing one of those disapear over the horizon trailing 3 different colors of smoke.

Title: Emergency power
Post by: SAS_KID on February 08, 2006, 08:12:56 PM

yup i like the idea

Title: Emergency power
Post by: Tilt on February 10, 2006, 03:09:43 AM

Have always thought that rpm related WEP should be on the rpm control and additive via a button.

Title: Emergency power
Post by: Bronk on February 10, 2006, 10:52:11 AM

Quote

Originally posted by bagrat
in real life if i pilot were to fly full throttle continuosly from the time he took off, aside from burnin alot of gas there would be no effect on the planes performance for that sorty?

One of the spit eficianados out there has a story of a spit pilot getting spooked.  I guess he pushed the throttle past the wire stop to use wep.
then he flew for more than an hour on over boost. When he landed the engine was taken apart for inspection and there was no damage.


Ok as to why we have a wep button. Most joystick sliders and HOTAS set ups do not have a throttle stop that simulates the stop that was useed in ww2 aircraft. Also people who use keyboard for throttle settings need the same artificial stop.
I dont see what the big deal is. Just pretend that you are pusing past the wire when you hit the P key.


Bronk

Title: Emergency power
Post by: FBGrit on February 10, 2006, 03:21:03 PM

I agree with Bronk.  I think the WEP selection requirement as it is right now is a nice compromise.  I have many hours in radial engines and have yet to see a good engine fail if flown at full power.  WEP is another story.

Title: Emergency power
Post by: Murdr on February 10, 2006, 04:09:56 PM

Correct me if Im wrong, but not all WEP settings were mere full throttle, manifold pressure and RPM settings.  It vaired from plane to plane.  There were in many instances where various types of supporting injection systems activated that were reserved just for WEP settings that provided additional boost, cooling, or both.  IIRC some systems had a wire stop in the throttle that you had to break which activated the supporting system, while in other systems you had to flip switches.  Considering that, WEP should have a seperate control.