The P-51D Conundrum

[Pup]

I just read this over on the dev forums, great news. The fact it is in the QA process makes me kinda hopeful that the rest of the patch is too, but I can only hope

[King Jareth]

Has anyone tried putting it on limited fuel on training (1 AI on rookie in something easy to avoid) unlimited time just to see what its like at a lower fuel load?

[MorgothNL]

Originally Posted by Raw Kryptonite

This make sense now. Full of fuel that thing could barely fly, much less maneuver and accelerate on demand. By the time it got to it's objective it would have burned enough off to be effective.
Really happy with Gaijin for listening to everyone.

are you saying, that if I would take a P-51 mission, and first flew for hours, and then tried to dogfight. It will actually fly like it is going to be flying after the update?

Do you reallly notice that much difference from the burning fuel in this game?
And if it was a full tank, like the devs said, it would take about 6 hours to burn the fuel to a nice combat amount

[King Jareth]

If you can trim to a nice level flight you could just leave it flying in training and go do something else*, the map edge magic turn around would do all the work.

(*-popping back now and then to check its all okay, and assuming you made the AI plane something slow and with equally as big tanks....and stupid.).

[MorgothNL]

Originally Posted by King Jareth

If you can trim to a nice level flight you could just leave it flying in training and go do something else*, the map edge magic turn around would do all the work.

(*-popping back now and then to check its all okay, and assuming you made the AI plane something slow and with equally as big tanks....and stupid.).

for about 6 hours ? Only by that time, will you have 'the same amount' of fuel left, as a bf-109.

because that is what we want right? to have the same endurance in the P-51 as in a 109. I dont want the 'advantage' of having a higher endurance. I want the same endurance, and with the according performance.

i know the P-51 strenghts are the endurance and its high alt performance, but in this game you dont fly above 5000' and to stay in the air for more than 30 min .

[King Jareth]

I'm not suggesting you do it every game!

Originally Posted by MorgothNL

are you saying, that if I would take a P-51 mission, and first flew for hours, and then tried to dogfight. It will actually fly like it is going to be flying after the update?

Do you reallly notice that much difference from the burning fuel in this game?

It was meerly a way to answer your question.

[MorgothNL]

Originally Posted by King Jareth

I'm not suggesting you do it every game!



It was meerly a way to answer your question.

I know , and I thank you. I might actually try it, but not for 6 hours, maybe just 2, and see if there is a difference.


I wasnt saying it was a stuppid answer, because it is the only way to find out. It was just wondering if you actually thought I would do that for 6 hours (and you're right, I even might )

[beaker126]

Wasn't it fairly common practice to jettison the left over fuel in your wing tanks before you actually got into combat? As I understand it was done for safety but it would also have the beneficial effects we've been talking about.

[MorgothNL]

Originally Posted by beaker126

Wasn't it fairly common practice to jettison the left over fuel in your wing tanks before you actually got into combat? As I understand it was done for safety but it would also have the beneficial effects we've been talking about.

I know about dropping the external tanks (ofcourse), but never heard that they jettisonned the fuel in the internal tanks. (not saying its not true!, it make total sense to do it).
I hope the devs will just fill the internal tanks for 25% or so, thats more than enough, and will hopefully make it fly like the 1946 version

[HauptmannMolders]

Keep in mind this mid tank that caused all the handling problems was used first while taking off, flying across the channel and then god knows how far over continental Europe. VERY glad they are addressing this the P51 should be one of the top planes in the game, period.