Flying and Skip Bombing the Blenheim on Cockpit Instruments

[Blackdog_kt]

Brilliant job. Has the temperature modeling been touched up in a recent patch? It seems much easier to warm-up now than what i'm used to, even with the accelerated warm-up method that i also use (throttling up to get the temps to rise faster).

I think i'll reinstall today on whatever remaining space i have on my surviving hard drive

[theOden]

Wonderful Mr. Dutch!
I'll install Steam again and give the Blen another try!

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Brilliant job. Has the temperature modeling been touched up in a recent patch? It seems much easier to warm-up now than what i'm used to, even with the accelerated warm-up method that i also use (throttling up to get the temps to rise faster).

I think i'll reinstall today on whatever remaining space i have on my surviving hard drive

Goodbye exam preparation! I can't comment on whether it is easier since I have only attempted this aircraft on the current patch. I think it is still not correct (see ElAurens' thread) but not unflyable by any stretch. I really like this plane!

[ElAurens]

As both both the Blenheim and Fiat G.50 suffer similar cooling issues, independent of their overall performance issues, I'm tempted to think there is a global problem with cooling, or air density, etc...

Hence you can have the rads on the water cooled aircraft open all the way, all the time, with no loss of performance or worry about coolant temps getting too low.

[DUI]

Thanks for the information on the Blenheim - quite enjoyable to fly this plane!
Basically, the first time that I have played on the red side on ATAG.

Level bombing will be my next challenge. So far I am already happy to keep the Blenheim in the air.

[Blackdog_kt]

Great job on the video tutorial and to be honest with you, it's better to see a tutorial with mistakes than a flawless one. It just makes it easier to visualize how things will go initially and know what kind of mistakes to expect.

That evasive roll over into the dive and ensuing high speed pull-out was great. I see the Blenheim appeals to you the same way it does to me. Just go in low and fast, drop and escape in a flimsy, almost unarmed aircraft, relying mostly on careful planning and evasive capabilities.

I used to mostly fly blue back in IL2 (almost exclusively 190As), but if we ever get a Mosquito in a future expansion and some kind of triggers to play out photo recon missions on a server, i'll probably end up spending 90% of my time playing bomb leader for rhubarb flights, pathfinder at night and recon in a glass nose Mossie.

Now that i think of it, the only reason i wouldn't fly a 190A back in IL2 46 modded was when a map came up in the rotation that had the Mk.XVI Mossie. I would go high, skirt around the furballs and by the time my bombs were exploding and blue noticed the flak bursts around me, i had already executed a split-S ending in a long,shallow, power dive from 25000 down to 10000 feet and was almost 10km away from the target. Great fun

It's a whole different kind of challenge, where you need to think less in terms of air combat maneuvering and more in terms of prior tactical planning, flight plans and navigation. And now with the extra CEM and navigation issues (magnetic deviation, knowing how to set and read a compass, etc) it's even better.

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

That evasive roll over into the dive and ensuing high speed pull-out was great. I see the Blenheim appeals to you the same way it does to me. Just go in low and fast, drop and escape in a flimsy, almost unarmed aircraft, relying mostly on careful planning and evasive capabilities.
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It's a whole different kind of challenge, where you need to think less in terms of air combat maneuvering and more in terms of prior tactical planning, flight plans and navigation. And now with the extra CEM and navigation issues (magnetic deviation, knowing how to set and read a compass, etc) it's even better.

Spot on, Blackdog_kt, and I also look forward to the Mosquito. I enjoy dogfights but they do get tiresome after a while when there's no larger objective. And the satisfaction of successful evasion definitely adds another dimension!

In this instance I could have targeted the AA in the first pass. It would be nice and easy since they are clustered together on the server map. But the roll over does the job nicely. You definitely don't want to continue straight after dropping your bombs on ATAG #2...

[ElAurens]

I spent some time offline in the Blenheim tonight.

Owing to the fact that the one mission where it starts on the ground is bugged, I used it in the London sight seeing mission. Flew from London to Manston, then across to Calais, then down to Le Havre where I landed.

At least I had some flight time (1 hour 21 minutes) learning in flight engine management, etc...

Only issue is that the mission starts you with 100% fuel, and I could not lower it. Basically ran 2000rpm and 2 odd psi boost most of the time. Was indicating +/- 170mph most of the time between 8000 and 9000 ft. The flight reminded me of the time I flew second seat in a twin engined Piper on a trip to and from Chicago Midway from Toledo Express. (No, I'm not a real pilot, but my employer at that time had 2 US Air National Guard jet jocks on staff as salesmen, and they would fly me to location shoots... They knew I liked planes so I got to do a lot of the flying...).

It's a fairly docile bird. And I see that some of it's qualities as stated in the Pilot's Notes are actually modeled fairly well.

Now I just have to try to get it off the ground in a combat situation and drop some HE on Jerry.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Hi Jimbop,

Thanks for the new video, Level bombing here I come!

Just one question, I've been playing with my Kane Dead Reconing Computer (a very dangerous thing for a dyslexic person to do!) and was wondering how you came about geting your TAS? What temperature did you use?

Setting it up with a 200mph IAS and a 190 TAS I came to a Outside air temp of about -40 C

(By the way I'm not trolling here just trying to get my head around things )

In my calculations without a thermometer, taking OAT as 9C (15C - 6C due to temperature lapse) and a IAS of 200 I came to a TAS of ~208mph



Cheers and thanks for the video!