I have had it only once and a few months back.

You can now use emergency power and partial flaps.

With the patch i can easily take off in the previously impossible cross country quick mission...with 100% fuel and a full bomb load :cool:

How to:

Mixture auto rich (levers full back) and prop pitch fine for high RPM (levers full forward)

Start engines on outboard tanks and get them to about 130 degrees cylinder temps and 50-60 degrees oil temps. They warm up much faster now so pay attention if you are used to warming them up with closed cowl flaps. You also spawn with the parking brakes on, so you can run them up a bit. At this point you can throttle them up enough to taxi to runway.

Once aligned with the runway, open your radiators fully and come to a stop. Calibrate your compass, center your rudder trim (it still spawns with starboard trim dialed in) and set your flaps to 20 degrees.

To set flaps: we now have flaps up, flaps down and flaps neutral, this governs the flap motors. So, press flaps down until the motor is set to lower them, then once you hit 20 degrees press flaps up to bring it back to neutral and keep them there.


For take-off: Engage boost cut out. Smoothly advance throttles to maximum. If your cylinder temps are below 150 you might get a big of sputtering from the engines, so you could check and momentarily close your cowl flaps before takeoff to bring it back up.

Roll out, lift off at about 70 mph and retract gear as soon as you have a positive rate of climb. Keep climbing at full emergency boost, just watch your cylinder temps (mine hover around 230 during this part) and don't climb too steep. Steep = slow = no airflow = overheating.

Climb to 500ft or so above ground and let your nose drop to level flight in order to speed up and increase airflow over the engines.
At this point you can configure for cruise/climb and save your engines from further heating. Retract flaps, pull prop pitch back to coarse, throttle back to +3 and disable boost cut out. Switch to inboard tanks.

You will lose a bit of altitude during this last part, but once you get to 140 mph it flies and climbs beautifully on coarse pitch all day long (i only use fine pitch for take-off, approach and landing).
Just monitor your temps during the flight and you'll be fine. It's much more forgiving now and you need less open cowl flaps once you are moving at a good pace.

Agree on that one. I think what would fix all issues would be a slider that lets the user decide wich drawdistance of planes he wants. Currently the planes still get rendered as dots when pretty close and their silhouette is already good to see when zoomed in.
I think there should be a bigger drawdistance and no dots at all. I know dots are good for the performance wut they hugely take from game immersion and playability.

Winger

Dammit Blackdog now my fingers are itching to get back in the old dog, hopefully all aircraft will be a pain/so much fun to fly!

Nice post Blackdog....just what I've been looking for, a quick Bleneim fly guide. Wish we had a thread for such posts, a simple "How to fly a ---- in 10 basic steps". I think such posts could help get people off the ground so that they can learn to better fly a ---- overtime.

Problem is such a thread would soon get polluted with everyone's opinions on how to fly a ---- such that the simple goal of helping people try other planes would get lost in a bucket of bile :(

Oh well....thanks for the post though!

Bravo dude nice post It'd be great if you could see your way to a sticky for it

Any news today BlackSix?

The disappearing ac/LOD's is worse with this mini fix.

Had my first Screen Freeze and Launcher crash on ATAG about 30 min after joining. Files sent.

Stutters and huge FPS jumps over certain areas of the map (even at 18k) are also back. Locking Vsync to 30fps seems to have cured that problem.

Will do.

Done ;)