Spitfire and Hurricane questions

[DraCo]

Hi,

iam new to this sim and have some questions about the Spitfire and the Hurricane and hope anybody can give me answers.

1. For what is the boost cut out and slow running cut out ?
2. In what situations i must handle these two buttons ?
3. The wheelbrakes doesn't work for me in this birds, what do i wrong ?

[janpitor]

Boost cutout is WEP, slow running is for engine swith-off and wheelbrakes must be set as "brake full", because these aircraft dont have differential breaks (they instead have a lever on the stick)

[DraCo]

Thanks for your answer janpitor. :)

Wheelbrakes now work for me but have another question.
Can i fly with the WEP the whole time ?

[SEE]

Can i fly with the WEP the whole time ?

No!

[snwkill]

I turned on boost cut out and I couldn't turn it off, how do you turn it off once the lever is forward on the spit 1a

[Das Attorney]

You can't.

I made a mod that fixes this and adds some other goodies

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=25260

[catito14]

Great stuff Das Attorney!! ... the people of MG couldn´t do the same from the beginning?

[Blackdog_kt]

The boost cut-out in the Hurricane can be switched off because it's a push/pull switch.

I think the one in the Spitfire couldn't be switched off in the real aircraft and that's why it can't be done in the sim either.

There was a gate and pushing the throttle through it would go into the WEP power band, but it probably couldn't be reset back to normal. It was done this way so that the ground crew/mechanics could see if a pilot had engaged WEP during the flight and do the necessary engine checks.

That doesn't mean you are forced to fly with WEP all the time if you engage it once. Just pulling the throttle back will give you normal power again. The boost cut-out does not automatically mean WEP, it works more in a sense of "you can engage WEP if the boost cut-out is enabled" and the way you do this is by advancing the throttle beyond the normal boost.

[Das Attorney]

If it was not able to be reset by the pilot, then there would not have been a need for the mechs to put a copper wire seal around it. They would just notice the cut-out switch was pushed in.

I think I remember reading some accounts of pilots 'going through the gate' where they described switching it off at some point too. I could be wrong though.

I shall have to do some reading and get back to you :)

[Blackdog_kt]

Well, if you have the references you're welcome to do so as i'm not entirely sure how it worked, i just have a vague memory of reading somewhere that it was resettable on Hurris (which got the wire installed) but not Spits. I could just as easily by wrong though.

In any case, thanks for helping clear things out ;-)

[Ze-Jamz]

If it was not able to be reset by the pilot, then there would not have been a need for the mechs to put a copper wire seal around it. They would just notice the cut-out switch was pushed in.

I think I remember reading some accounts of pilots 'going through the gate' where they described switching it off at some point too. I could be wrong though.

I shall have to do some reading and get back to you :)

I've also seen this and am pretty sure it's how it operated...ground crews could reset in but only obviously when on the grd