p-51 black engine

[David603]

Fuel is supposed to be unlimited in campaign, but it could be a minor seeming hit you took earlier that caused a fuel leak and made you run out later? Most of the times I've had to crash land in Il2 on the PC have been caused by planes rear gunners getting a hit or two on me without seeming to do any damage as I shot them down and then me running out of fuel after a couple of minutes.

[SleepTrgt]

Nah i have it all the time, Its losing Fuel pressure, many reported this already.
I started checking the gauges fuel stays high, its just fuel pressure thats dropping.
I still dont know why this is happening.

[thundermuffin]

This isn't happening to me... then again, I finish these missions kind of quickly. I'll see if I can make it last a little longer and see if my plane starts to drop and I'll keep an eye on the gauges

[SleepTrgt]

Just go dogfight, 1 life. and try kill as much 190's
I even let myself get spotted at the start just to spawn an additional flight of 190's making it a total of 28 190's in the mission. Made it out couple of times.
But often my engine fails, could be after 40 mins or after 15 mins.

[SeaCat]

Do you have WEP engaged? You can burn out your engine if you use it too long, at least that's the case in most sims I've played.

[SleepTrgt]

No tested it many times Engine can get damaged like that without using WEP or getting hit.

[SleepTrgt]

Ok i went in flying around doin lots of G's for 40 minutes, engine didnt got any problems. Then 5 minutes of WEP and it lost power, so indeed be carefull with WEP.

But personally i was already being carefull with WEP hardly using it.
So i will try and figure out other reasons why the engine could die.

Edit: Flew above flak for a while, nothing happend.
I did notice however, if throttle is around 100% it can go into WEP without boosting the plane, still damaging the plane.
This only happens using a flight stick ofcourse. Makes me wonder everyone who has problems with the engine is using a Flight stick?