Warm Up Times of Radial Engines.

[ElAurens]

Assuming that once aircraft FMs are adjusted, I am having difficulty seeing any radial engined aircraft being used online much, except by AIs. Why? Because in reality, even in warm climates, a large radial can take up to half an hour to properly warm up, whereas the water cooled engines can be gotten off the ground in considerably shorter time.

Here we run up against one of the issues of total realism vs. enjoyment of the title. I know that the offline crowd will have no issue here, but my focus is for online. And I dare add that the reality of radial engined aircraft operations is such that no pilot would go out to a stone cold aircraft at the start of a mission, as it would have been warmed up by the ground crew, then possible even have the fuel topped off before the actual mission start time.

So how do we put the radial engined aircraft into the sim and maintain some sort of usability for them? This will be even more critical as we move forward in time with the series,and more and more radial types come into play with all sides.

Will say online wars have to have a half hour earlier start time just for those flying radial engined craft? None of us have all day to fly the sim you know.