radiators have no influence on speed
 

i surprisingly just found out that the rads settings of the 109 have no impact on speed at all...
normally i fly with them as much closed as possible,to avoid engine overheating,while maintaining the minimum air resistance...
however i found out that one can leave the rads fully open and still reach and hold the top speed in level flight....

that should be looked into by the devs, cause i would assume that a fully opened radiator should cause enough surface to slow the aircraft down...


i have to say that this fact is extremely disappointing, as CEM and FMs are supposed to be the strengths of this game(sim?)

What type of 109 was used? E1, E3, E4 ?
I remember befor 2nd beta patch the setting of the coolers were important when flying a E3/E1 with full realistic Motor settings.

sorry forgot to say....i used the E4

didnt try it with the E1 or E3 yet

I've noticed this as well. Seems like I can fly around all day on full throttle with rads full open and not lose any performance to drag. Probably a bug?? It's like they fix one damn thing and something else goes haywire! But being as the game is as complex as it is I guess it's just the nature of the beast...

Neither do they in hurri or spit I would say. No impact of open canopy either. Next patch? :rolleyes:

just tried it with the E1, and its the same....no drag with rads fully open...
i dont know, but looking at the porked flight models, and now this, leads me to believe that this whole CEM argument is nothing but a joke...its only purpose up until now is to make us customers believe that we are playing something superior to IL2 1946, but honestly, the more i look into CLOD and experiment with it, the more i think that it is in fact inferior to its predecessor.


i mean,before the release of CLOD, i have thought, that if il2 1946 has features like the Lorenz landing system, those features would be self-evident for CLOD...plus many more new features making the game a real successor.but not only that so many features are absent or bugged, even such fundamental physics are not working....
this game is not worth to be called a sim yet in my eyes.

sorry for being negative again....i really want to love this game, but sometimes its really hard

We can only hope that it's in the next patch.

Might be a bug with the 109 someone was saying how they could catch a 109 in a hurri by closing there rads a bit.

well i experienced something similar twice online....couldnt outrun a hurri...
it followed me for more over ten minutes and until he was out of ammo...
the distance between us remained the same during the whole time.
and i tried everything to gain distance with dives and shallow climbs, but it always was about 500meters behind me...

Well, that is pretty much my standard race-experience against Hurricanes... ;)

But that is also in line with the rest of the so-called CEM. The useless magnetos, fuel prime pumps and simplified start up procedure, no over-revving damage, the constant low fuel oil consumption. What is now better in comparison to 1946 is, that the temperature and oil pressure gauges actually work, which makes it a little easier compared to 1946.