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Originally Posted by SaQSoN
Sorry, ElAurens, I know, it's painful to know, but whatever you believe happens, not always actually happen.
The DM is complex, as I described it and it works for both on-line and off-line in the same exact way. This is a basic fact.
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I know a decent amount about how the DM works from my time spent over the years involved with the third party modelers and so forth. I don't have hands on experience but I have an idea... what ElAurens says has some merit. I think what it comes down to is we have two types of dead engine behavior and it seems to be consistent to the plane. A FW190 with a dead engine will still have a spinning propeller. So will a LaGG, La-5, Yak, etc. On the other hand a Bf109, P-51, Ki-84 or P-40 tends to get the "insta-stop" propeller behavior where a certain type of damage is sustained and the engine just stops in place. The P-47 gets it too although the chances of it seem to have been reduced from back in the FB1.0 days where it was happening very frequently. They don't all seem to be radial or in-line either.
What I can say is that I've flown the Yak series for a very long time, sustained all varieties of damage so far as I can tell, but never had the engine stop dead. Yeah it'll start to windmill and slowly the RPM drops until it's spinning but mostly useless. It's just a weird thing... Any idea why these behave this way? Because the Yak is older to the game I'm wondering if it doesn't have as complex a model for it?
It's distinctly different between different types. There may be a specific reason in the DM. I just don't know what.