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[Baron]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

can u actually land\taxi on the tower bridge?

Well, not that i know of.

1. its to narrow

2. both ends of the bridge have IL2 ramps so trying to tuch down on them or approach them in any kind of speed results in an explosion.

3 landed at one end of the bridge and tried to taxi onto it but the Moth was impossible to steer on the ground. In idle it slowly turned on its own, as soon as u gave it the slightest power it either stopped turning (even with full rudder) or it started turning the other way instead. No control over it what so ever.

[Blackdog_kt]

Did you start your flight by selecting the cross-country mission?

I tried the Tiger Moth yesterday and there definitely is a crosswind implemented in that mission, it was weather-vaning to the right with the engine off. I guess this is also part of the reason people have problems with the Blenheim in that mission, as for some reason it spawns with rudder trimmed to the right (this one's easily fixed, just reset the trim), it has a pull to the right of its own due to prop and torque effects and on top of that you have the crosswind to deal with.

On another note, it seems that the Moth's engine controls suffer from similar bugs to the ones found in the two-speed prop Hurricane. It seems that mixture is correctly modeled with rich corresponding to the lever fully aft, but the throttle is reversed (full throttle should be forward, in the sim full throttle is aft).
The reason mixture and throttle are opposite of each other in the real aircraft is that when pulling the throttle back, the throttle lever has some sort of a pin that pulls the mixture back into rich to prevent rough running of the engine that could occur with low throttle and lean mixture.

However, in the sim the throttle is reversed while the throttle pin that pulls the mixture lever is working correctly. This makes it a bit difficult to start it up due to the levers interlocking in reverse (if that makes any sense) and messing things up with inappropriate throttle and mixture combinations that either choke the engine due to too much throttle/fuel or starve it of fuel.

That was with CEM enabled, i will try it again tonight to see if i can make it work as when started up and rolling it's actually easier to work around the bug.

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Did you start your flight by selecting the cross-country mission?

I tried the Tiger Moth yesterday and there definitely is a crosswind implemented in that mission, it was weather-vaning to the right with the engine off. I guess this is also part of the reason people have problems with the Blenheim in that mission, as for some reason it spawns with rudder trimmed to the right (this one's easily fixed, just reset the trim), it has a pull to the right of its own due to prop and torque effects and on top of that you have the crosswind to deal with.

On another note, it seems that the Moth's engine controls suffer from similar bugs to the ones found in the two-speed prop Hurricane. It seems that mixture is correctly modeled with rich corresponding to the lever fully aft, but the throttle is reversed (full throttle should be forward, in the sim full throttle is aft).
The reason mixture and throttle are opposite of each other in the real aircraft is that when pulling the throttle back, the throttle lever has some sort of a pin that pulls the mixture back into rich to prevent rough running of the engine that could occur with low throttle and lean mixture.

However, in the sim the throttle is reversed while the throttle pin that pulls the mixture lever is working correctly. This makes it a bit difficult to start it up due to the levers interlocking in reverse (if that makes any sense) and messing things up with inappropriate throttle and mixture combinations that either choke the engine due to too much throttle/fuel or starve it of fuel.

That was with CEM enabled, i will try it again tonight to see if i can make it work as when started up and rolling it's actually easier to work around the bug.

Nope, its the free flight over London mission.


Had to tutch down in a circle around the Tower to have enough room

[senseispcc]

I think that like the aircrafts in WWI the throttle is from front to back.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by senseispcc

I think that like the aircrafts in WWI the throttle is from front to back.

uhmmm that was only a French and Italian peculiarity that was abandoned after WW2..