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Originally Posted by ElAurens
"Feeling" that something is too difficult is not good enough.
Empirical data is the only way to set such parameters.
Frankly most aircraft in the sim overheat far too readily in flight, especially the air cooled birds, FW 190 A excepted.
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I think IL2 models a lot of things very well. What's missing is that they have no effect whatsoever on engine condition, not unless the engine completes one full "session" of overheat to trigger the seizing effect. If the "session" is reset (by going back to normal temps before damage starts to occur), then the engine is as good as new.
In reality, things would be more gradual. The engine would start exhibiting troublesome behaviour earlier (this doesn't mean it would always be detectable though, it could a background occurence that would take extra abuse to show symptoms) which although not outright fatal, would accumulate over time for every instance the pilot pushed it beyond the normal envelope.