FW-200 fire origin is bizzare

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Frantishek

Between the bomb cells and fuselage are oxygen bottles, and between the cells along the catwalk is a hydraulic tank, both of which will provide ample fuel sources (ok ok, 1 is an oxidizer).

There is also some electrical circuits that could short and burn too.

You wrote the answer to all this here yourself I think. Fuel isn't the only thing that can cause a fire in an aircraft.

Oxygen, ammunition, electrical equipment - all can start fires. Maybe smaller than a full-on fuel conflagration to start with - but small fires can get bigger FAST, and set off oxygen bottles, etc.

Also, I think the flames really are looking fine - it's very hard to judge in a static screenshot how the full in-motion effect will come across.

Plus, despite having seen this in a few updates now I'm STILL blown away by the depiction of fire within the fuselage. Have read many stories about aircrew's terror of the possibility of fire and now for the first time in a flightsim we have something that really gets that across. Fire effects in il2 had a sort of bolted on, 'abstract' quality about them.

But this really gets across that visceral terror thing I think. Raises the question of how it will appear from first person perspective to a crewman inside the plane?!

Also - expect to see cockpit fires in single-seat fighters.