4.12 development update discussion and feedback

[JtD]

You cannot adjust prop pitch, you can only change rpm.

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

Indeed - the HUD message is misleading.

[Tigertooo]

Will the "shared kill" also be available online (DF servers and COOPS) ?

[310thDiablo]

Originally Posted by JtD

You cannot adjust prop pitch, you can only change rpm.

So are you saying I am not really changing prop pitch even tho that is what is set in my keys it's really jsut adjusting rpm?

[ElAurens]

Yes, that is how a real constant speed prop works.

The pilot cannot choose the angle of the blades, he chooses the rpm and the blades adjust automatically to keep the desired rpm, so that for instance, in a dive the blades would get more and more coarse to try to keep the desired RPM as speed increased, and in a climb they would go to finer pitch to keep RPM up as the aircraft slowed.

The lone exception to this on US aircraft is the Curtiss Electric Propeller. It could work in 2 modes, as a normal constant speed prop, as described above, or the pilot could go to a manual mode where it worked as a variable pitch prop, like a 109 with it's auto prop disabled, where the pilot directly sets the blade angle. It is not modeled correctly in the sim on the P 40 and P 38 aircraft that used the Curtiss Prop.

[SPITACE]

can we see a tropicalised Hurricane with a Vokes engine dust filter in the sim like the mk IID. also a repaint of the hurricanes joystick would be great

[zanzark]

Pleaaaaase fix the bomb sights!

The bombers that use the same sight as HE-111 are useless... please just swap it for the russian bombers sights, those work.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by zanzark

Pleaaaaase fix the bomb sights!

The bombers that use the same sight as HE-111 are useless... please just swap it for the russian bombers sights, those work.

Whats wrong with them? I've done precision bombing from medium altitudes in most bombers and while there are a few quirks.. on the whole the He111 bombsight works just fine. As does the one on the Ju88A-4.

[Patchman123]

Originally Posted by IceFire

Whats wrong with them? I've done precision bombing from medium altitudes in most bombers and while there are a few quirks.. on the whole the He111 bombsight works just fine. As does the one on the Ju88A-4.

The altimeters in the bombardier's position in the bomber are barely functionable and the bombardier's interface also seems to have problems with the speed indicators on the aircraft do not seem to work past 10,000 feet. It is impossible to gauge your altitude correctly from up there. The airspeed indicators do not give you altitude and it's practically impossible to drop the bombs while operating with "no speed bars" difficulty mode. It's useless to set the altitude and velocity without the speed bar. There are no tutorials in the game on how to read gauges on the aircraft or what they look like or how to fly with gauges shot out. I wish there could be tutorials in the game on how to read a tachometer or an altimeter or a fuel gauge, for those people out there, unlike me, who don't know aviation.

I wish there could be training aircraft and training tutorials for basic flight instruction or more detailed take off procedures for various aircraft. It's like you have to be a trained pilot to operate anything in the sense of being like Chuck Yeager, and it's not real friendly towards those who are beginning to understand aviation and flying planes.
I'm not looking for arcade sim, either. They never read properly above 10,000 feet.

Flying in the games without the white words and having those disabled when flying to add more realism is impossible. Forget it. Setting the bombing altitude, velocity, and bombsight settings is completely impossible because you are unable to know what altitude you're setting it at and you can not see it at all and you do not see it in the bomb interface, even though the bombsight would probably have the set altitude displayed in the sight mechanism and all that. It would tell you what altitude you're flying at.

Setting it without the letters is impossible. The game as a whole is useless when you disable the white words on the right hand screen. Is there a way to remedy that?

Also engine seizures are difficult to deal with, instead of cutting back power, the whole engine just seems to run until it can't run anymore. Are they any complex ways to deal with it? I hope so. Engine seizures are annoying.