Engine Restart

[Ancient Seraph]

Never heard of it, thanks . Next time I get an engine failure I'll climb a bit to get enough altitude and attempt a restart .

[Smidlee]

Originally Posted by maxqubit

Why would the engine stop? too much WEP?

Anyway, good to know. Iirc you have engine failures in OGF, and about the same procedure to restart. First time it happened in that game i was like WTF????

Negative-G. British planes fuel were gravity fed so instead of pushing up on the stick to dive they have to invert the plane then pull down to dive. Thus the Split-S maneuver.

[beaker126]

Originally Posted by Smidlee

Negative-G. British planes fuel were gravity fed so instead of pushing up on the stick to dive they have to invert the plane then pull down to dive. Thus the Split-S maneuver.

Anybody know if this is required in this game?

[fritzwendel]

Originally Posted by beaker126

Anybody know if this is required in this game?

Yes, at least for the I-16 Polikarpov. That plane was notorious for negative G stall characteristics, and happens regularly on Realistic/sim in the game.

Like it was mentioned, roll and pull up on the stick; stick down during level flight is just asking for trouble.

[Voyager]

It was an issue that the BoB period Spits had, but should be fixed/mitigated by the 1941 time frame.

The reason to do the negative G manuvers instead of roll is because Spitfires have roll issues at high speeds, especially the early models with fabric ailerons. Metal aileron skins, and clipped wings help it tremendously, but it was never a great high speed roller. Even with high roll planes, like the 190, with is somethign like 180 degrees/ second roll rate, if someone has just dropped away from you at 200kph, and you take a second to roll over to chase them, you've just given them 60m of distance. That's not trivial.

[Ancient Seraph]

Originally Posted by Voyager

It was an issue that the BoB period Spits had, but should be fixed/mitigated by the 1941 time frame.

The reason to do the negative G manuvers instead of roll is because Spitfires have roll issues at high speeds, especially the early models with fabric ailerons. Metal aileron skins, and clipped wings help it tremendously, but it was never a great high speed roller. Even with high roll planes, like the 190, with is somethign like 180 degrees/ second roll rate, if someone has just dropped away from you at 200kph, and you take a second to roll over to chase them, you've just given them 60m of distance. That's not trivial.

Haven't seen a lot of people push nose-down suddenly yet. And, if the red-outs will be as in 1946, there's not going to be a lot of people that will continue doing it. Red-outs would occur almost immediately after pushing nose down a bit violently.

[Wissam24]

I just tried to restart an I-16, diving from 30,000 ft and it didn;t restart...

[danscirocco]

great!!! doing russian campaign and the engine kept cutting out thought it was a bug doooh!!!! so kept restarting the game, now i know!!!

Also OFF TOPIC but i play realistic, how do you loop i try in the planes but as soon as i pull back i just stall and nose drops?!

Please help
Thanks in advance

[InfiniteStates]

Originally Posted by danscirocco

Also OFF TOPIC but i play realistic, how do you loop i try in the planes but as soon as i pull back i just stall and nose drops?!

Please help
Thanks in advance

Pull back more gently or decrease elevator sensitivity

[InfiniteStates]

Originally Posted by Smidlee

Negative-G. British planes fuel were gravity fed so instead of pushing up on the stick to dive they have to invert the plane then pull down to dive. Thus the Split-S maneuver.

Not only that - a wing is designed to pull in the up direction so you can move faster down by inverting the wings.