It's a different engine in the Mk.II and they do have different methods.

Personally, however, I keep the rads closed just to heat up the engine a bit quicker. I know you're not 'supposed' to but I do it all the same, for speed, hence why I put it there.

The pitch should be coarse really, as it stops the engine trying to pull the aircraft forward while on startup. That's just my logical standpoint.

Actually I'm a little bit confused about the radiator on the Hurri. The indicator in the cockpit reads closed when I open the radiator and vice versa.

yeah I don't know if its correct (we are both presumably wrong...) but I do the same thing with radiator to speed things up. I open radiator when I start taxiing. At this point i don't care if its the proper checklist. I just want to be able to get the crate in the air without too much damage :p

I've noticed though that I don't need to use the handpump.

I don't do a full check when i start my car. ie. I don't walk around my car to see if i got a flat or something is falling off etc.


But mate I think we both mean the same thing with the prop pitch :p where I say 100 percent you say 0 percent. Its fully forward. the blades have the LEAST resistant so its not pulling the aircraft. This gives the least amount of stress but more RPM. As soon as i climbed sufficiently with prop "100 percent" I turn it back to 85 percent or so and I see my rpm decrease and stress levels increase.

edit: I guess we don't mean the same. I had to lookup what coarse means :p you might be correct. I don't know. For me the logical thing to do is prop fine. I compare it to gears in a car. You don't start your car in the fourth gear.

I use the in cockpit reference. If you have put your radiator like I have on an axis it might be that you need to check the reverse checkbox if it gives the opposite reading.

Thanks for replying KP, I'm using the default ingame keys which are 5 and 6.

Hmm weird. You may found a bug. Or the default bind keys are at fault. When you look in the control page is 5 set for open and 6 for close? and if so if you press 5 ingame the radiator closes instead? if this is the case then it must be a bug. I'd go with the incockpit reference though. I THINK i have flown all the time with radiator open. 1 mission with full power heavy dogfighting and my engine didnt blow up.

Now the really weird thing when the panel is set to closed, if you go on externals you can see the radiator is open. When the panel is open, the radiator looks closed.

Hrrm I guess, I think I'm going to read my Hurri manual and just do the checks from that, to be on the safe side from now on. Still going to keep rads closed until I move though. Get those crates in the air eh what?

I can scan in the start sequence from the Hurri Mk.I pilot notes if you're interested?

I've got one around here somewhere lol. It's in one of the many many boxes in the house ^_^

This is my first post, please be kind.

I am a total newb. I hope I dont embarrass myself too much.

Once my Hurricane is at a good temperature, and I set the prop angle to pull forward, my plane seems to pull left. And hard. Any ideas?

when im flying my plane doesnt pull left. so its not my stick, i went through calibration just to make sure.