How to use the YAK-1

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

That's because it's got a float carburetor instead of fuel injection. The Yak-1, Hawker Hurricane, and Yak-9 should all cut out when you attempt to roll or dive without rolling (just pointing the stick forward from level flight). But it seems the I-16 and I-153 are the only two planes in BoP that are effected like this.

It's because you're cutting the fuel from getting to the engine, so the engine cuts out. And it also happens if you're using WEP too often or for too long. So when flying the I-16, always roll into a dive and don't use WEP so often. It'll burn your engine out and just kill it for good. (They didn't make it possible to restart the engine in a dive like in '46.)

Actually you can restart the engine in a dive if you're high enough, its just the propeller doesn't continue to spin with the engine once you pull up out the dive. It just jams itsself, another silly bug is my guess; nobody ever game tested it.

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by Robotic Pope

Actually you can restart the engine in a dive if you're high enough, its just the propeller doesn't continue to spin with the engine once you pull up out the dive. It just jams itsself, another silly bug is my guess; nobody ever game tested it.

It's not that your propeller gets jammed, it's because you didn't engage the flywheel to the engine. (They didn't bother adding it in BoP like '46.) Like most radial 30s planes, and other planes in WW2 (109s for example). When starting the engine, there was a crank for the flywheel. Wind it up enough, and then either flip a switch, push/pull a small lever, and you've got a roaring engine ready to go. But all you're doing in BoP is cracking the flywheel, and instead of making a little ticking sort of sound when wound up, they just put the engine sounds. So you don't actually restart it, it just sounds like you do.

Cranking the flywheel

Engine and Flywheel engaged

[Robotic Pope]

Youre right Ace, it does look just like the first video, just with the engine noise starting again. Another sign of a rushed game for me. Sound effects in BoP really are quite poor arn't they.

[Soviet Ace]

Yeah, it's a real damn shame too. BoP could have really been something, if 505 wasn't always in such a damn rush to get their games out. I bet you would have had a lot more people rushing to buy BoP if they'd been competent enough to allow the Devs to work on the game properly, use the correct sound, get the right cockpits, make the right fuel weight and so on. But ah well, it's not going to be happening any time soon I don't think. I heard 505 is already announcing some new game about something, but it'll probably flop too?