+1 for REALISM.

+1

People should learn instead of whine!

LOL … Dood you need to watch that blood pressure.
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LOL … you’re going to pop a vein.

That’s exactly what they do, they try new stuff that’s challenging and fun. Remember the Airacobra in IL2, I love the Airacobra but it spun like a top if you stalled it, LOL but they fixed it. The P51’s engine quits if a bullet gets near it, yet the same engine in other planes handle damage differently, oh will. The programmers read lots of books to research WW2 aircraft performance data; I hope you didn’t think all the programmers were WW2 pilots and mechanics; they do lots of mathematical calculations to determine the flight and damage models. But in the end they take an educated guess which is just fine, it’s the only choose they have. Have some faith in Oleg and his team; if they screw something up they’ll get it figured out and fix it.

Here’s some information about the tachometer in the Spitfire and Hurricane. The Rolls-Royce Merlin used an electric tachometer not a mechanical tachometer. When the needle sways back and forth it is normally a sign that the generator that powers it is going bad or the receiving unite in the tachometer is out of calibration. All the pilots would do is average the reading, no need to panic. The odds of this happening are rare at best, that’s not to say it can’t happen. In the 32 years that I have been flying vintage aircraft I’ve only had one electric tachometer fail, but it was 60 years old, I guess it was overdue for a failure.

I’ll buy COD after the beta testing is completed this summer. I’m looking forward to this game, I remember the good times and good people I met playing IL2. I think I’ll reinstall it on my new computer, only this time I can max everything out.

Have you even seen a cable driven tacho on any vehicle of any kind?

I highly doubt it.

I have.

Just another manifestation of the twisted mantra chanted by guys hiding in their cellar playing video games... to wit... "Harder must be more real".

+1 Keep it real.

With a switch for people who aren't man enough to handle it.

Maybe give your sources for the points in question.

+1 on this.

the "Frogeye"

http://www.british-cars.net/mg-midge...2158239966.htm

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"Crankshaft: Clockwise rotation viewed from the rear (supercharger end). One piece balanced, six-throw machined forging of nitrogen-hardened chrome-molybdenum steel. Crankpins and journals are bored and fitted with oil retaining caps and the webs are drilled to allow oil to be fed axially from each end of the crank to to the main journal and connecting-rod bearings. Drive to the reduction gear pinion is from a serrated flange bolted to the front end of the crankshaft. The rear end of the crankshaft is connected by a flexible torsion shaft (spring drive) to the supercharger driving gear and also provides drives to the auxiliary gearbox, oil pumps, coolant pumps, fuel pump, tachometer and propeller constant-speed unit. Angular movement of this spring shaft is limited by stops attached to the crankshaft."

http://www.thunderboats.org/history/history0325.html (Griffon)

+1 for realism, make the simpler version an option

Yeah, realism rocks :)

I don't know guys, but the merlins cutting out in level flight because of turbulence sure wasn't right....