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Originally Posted by Crumpp
Exactly. There is no need to guess. Pilots who fly float carburetor equipped aircraft have been telling your community from the beginning the effect is instantaneous.
The physics and science of a float carburetor fuel metering system supports their experience.
There is a reason why allied pilots complained about it and why German pilots equipped with direct injection fuel metered engines could bunt to escape. It speaks volumes for the realism of your game that players complain as well.
The effect is instantaneous upon the application of negative accelerations. The instrumentation used in the report backs that up very nicely within the accuracy of a mechanical dial gauge accelerometer.
The problem is when people try to interpret things they don't understand and push it as fact.
You can see that in many of the "home-made" graphs pushed around the flight sim community where the author of the graph did not understand such things as TAS, EAS, CAS, or IAS or density altitude effects.
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Yep, its probably
almost instantaneous when it hits 0.1G. A pilot that currently fies a float-carburreted MkI Hurricane has told us that he estimates a cutout at 0.3G after a second or two (some people might call that 'instantaneous'), possibly instantaneous at negative G.
It would be a brave or arrogant person that was prepared to argue with the Royal Aircraft Establishmnent (RAE) who had the aircraft/engines to make tests with ( we don't ) and the skills and instrumentation to determine the problem. Beatrice Shilling was working for the RAE when she came up with her 'orifice'.
I just wonder how much factual documentary evidence will be needed before people stop thinking the early Merlins farted every time the pilot hiccupped.