engine oil and radiator damage. Fails too quickly!

[Anders_And]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Hi Robo, since the devs were unable to get it right, which then would you prefer to have now...With the release, a radiator leak meant that your battle had ended and there was a new battle just begun, to somehow make it across the channel. Extremely difficult situation, really only enough power to maintain steerage all the while loosing alt. With windshield covered in oil due to a gasket failure you would now be tested to the max, to set her down in a farmers field if you were able to make it that far. 9 out of 10 times I do not make it. Out of the times I do make it across, 9 out of 10 times I crash on landing attempt and die. It is that time when I do make it and can walk away, that I say to myself man what a great sim, oh boy I got lucky am I a good pilot!

thats exactly the point. Instead of starting a a discussion where its your way or the highway, instead ask yourself why on earth the devs decided to go from one extreme to the other?!

Of course what we had before was worse than now. Now, its equally unrealistic.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Anders_And

thats exactly the point. Instead of starting a a discussion where its your way or the highway, instead ask yourself why on earth the devs decided to go from one extreme to the other?!

Of course what we had before was worse than now. Now, its equally unrealistic.

Well at least I can make across with the before, the now, is impossible under most conditions.

[FFCW_Urizen]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Well at least I can make across with the before, the now, is impossible under most conditions.

I glided more than once from Dunkerque towards Hawkinge, it just depends on your altitude . So from now on, no more tree hugging, get up there and play with the big boys .

[*Buzzsaw*]

Salute

In fact, current aircraft can still fly around far too long and maneuver far too long with leaking radiators.

According to WWII pilots I have read, once their radiators were perforated, they had a maximum of 5 minutes after a leak to either put the aircraft down, or bailout. And it the hole was bigger, the time could be as little as 30 seconds.

109's had a provision to shut one leaking radiator and run the engine off a single, but that was contingent on reducing boost and rpm, it was not possible to run combat power on a single rad without overheating the engine.

I think the current modelling is closer to fact than the previous, which saw aircraft being able to fly around for lengthy periods with leaks. That was not realistic at all.

[Anders_And]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Sadly yet another example of the repercussion's of the countless whining that the devs faced, and dealt with.

What are you talking about?!!? So if you complain that your car is to slow and you take it to the garage and when it comes back it cant go any slower than 200km/h with your logic you get what you asked for?!?!

Jeeez, you mentality is why the game never got fixed in the first place. Any critique is whining according to your sort...

Grow up