Temperature Guide

[RPS69]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

After all, the temperature at which an engine starts to suffer damage doesn't change if it's mounted on a different aircraft.

That's not necessarilly true.

We never see piston heads temperature, we see general oil temperature.

Best example of this is Fw190A2 behavior on real life.

Different airframes got diferent airflow on heat exchangers, or piston radiators on radial engines.

If the game actually made those assumptions, I don't know. But overheat condition doesn't need to be the same on every airframe that uses the same engine.