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Originally Posted by Redroach
See, that's what's really starting to P+++ ME OFF!. Could you please upload a youtube file of you, in person, flying a RL spitfire or hurricane. Please hold up a sign that reads: "[Your nick] greets the banana forum". Then focus the cam on the rpm indicator. Thank you.
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LOL … Dood you need to watch that blood pressure.
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Originally Posted by Redroach
In any other event, I tend to believe the developers because they FKIN INTRODUCED IT in the first place! I'm pretty damn sure that they didn't just think: "Oh well, let's just add some random dial movement, but only on the rpm gauge. This will be awsum fun guyz". Right?
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Originally Posted by Redroach
“Oh well, let's just add some random dial movement”
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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.