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Originally Posted by Janosch
Was it a cold or hot engine? Was it level flight, steep or moderate climb? I just tried out the Bf 109 G-10, default armament but only 60% fuel load, radiator fully open. I wanted to use the MW50 to take off and climb. The overheat message popped up roughly 2min 30 seconds after setting throttle to 110%, which I did shortly after the plane started to move. I didn't climb optimally, but I made it to about 3200m altitude.
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I was testing late-war bf-109s in a duel quick mission setup. I started midair on Cremia at 1000 meters. Immediately after spawning, I pulled back the throttle and enabled MW50 and then pushed forward to maximum 110%. (The radiator was set to automatic by default.) I then did a shallow dive to about 500 meters when I met the enemy aircraft. Then I started dogfighting with him. I did it mostly in the vertical plane. When I pulled up from the dive, I got the overheating message. It was merely 53 seconds into flight. If I continued dogfighting with full throttle, the engine would be cooked up within 4 minutes. (you can tell it from the oil blotch spilled onto the windscreen and the over-revolution engine sound.)
Then I did another test with 500 km/h level flight with the same power setup. (no enemy aircrafts) The engine was still damaged within 5 minutes.
MW50 boost was not supposed to be used for take off and climb in history. So your data is not compatible.