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Originally Posted by cheesehawk
Agree with most of your post, but I think the fuel consumption is pretty accurate. I inquired long ago when I was able to make 4 round trips from Calais to London, but was advised it was due to operational procedure differences, but the number of miles travelled was consistent with historical consumption. In RL, planes were started up, idling on the tarmac while checked out, taxied to position, waited for entire flight to get ready, took off, formed up, climbed to altitude, waited for rendevous with bombers, flew weaving escort patterns, and still reached London with 5-15 minutes operational time before needing to head home. The early parts of that flight could consume 30-45 minutes of fuel before the 109s had even started out towards England.
I agree some things need to be left for the players themselves to decide, not every thing can be ultra-historical. If people weren't putting themselves in the crosshairs of the enemy plane, you wouldn't even know what they're loaded with.
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Ah, gotcha. That's why I left the '?' in there. I wasn't sure what was the case, but I had a suspicion (which turns out to be half true).
What you're saying goes exactly with what I was getting at. Historical operating procedure ended up limiting the 109s over England significantly in a way that absolutely impacted their effectiveness - but there is no evidence that people are playing it that way. So now people would have to talk about fuel limit restrictions on servers, etc. etc. etc. in order to accurately model the 'historical' situation.
It all gets very crazy very quickly if you go down that rabbit hole
If there are any 109 pilots out there who actually only take 50% fuel or less to simulate not having much fuel over England, then I tip my cap to them.
01-09-2012, 07:51 PM
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