Blenheim take off

[AARPRazorbacks]

Is there a video of the Blenheim with or dropping bombs in CLoD?

No bombs to be found in my download for the Blenheim.

And when the tempter control is on the planes are wack. Most of the time. LOL
This shows a take off with the Tempter control off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpVcgriqx58

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by AARPRazorbacks

No bombs to be found in my download for the Blenheim.

And when the tempter control is on the planes are wack. Most of the time. LOL
This shows a take off with the Tempter control off.

Sorry Sir, don't understand your banter!

[AARPRazorbacks]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Sorry Sir, don't understand your banter!

Definition of WACK

slang
: not up to the mark : lousy, lame <while there are skilled moments, there are wack ones as well.

As much as I like CLoD. With the Tempter control on, the planes are wack.

On another flight forum this was said. And it's hard to say a pilot that flew the plane is wrong.


Join Date
Mar 2010
Location
Norfolk England

Problem with Blenheim and other bombers.

"I am having real problems getting the Blenheim to take off properly. Firstly it starts turning as it sits on the runway before you even start the engines. Brakes stop it but you don't seem to be able to keep the brakes applied.

Engines start okay but the aircraft always swings violently to starboard and no amount of left rudder and rudder trim will correct it. Using brakes helps but slows down your take off. I have tried varient power on the engines. This again helps but it becomes very tricky when the aircraft rotates. Also the lock tail wheel does not even seem to work.

I have spoken to an ex-Blenheim pilot who told me the Blenheim was not difficult to take off and did not suffer from an bad yaw tendencies (Unlike the Beaufighter). I have to conclude the Blenheim in CoD s badly modelled. The last patch did nothing to improve it."

I'v gotten to where I can take off in the Blenheim. But not with the Tempter control on.

I'm going to keep trying to take off with the tempter controls on. It my be the whay I'm doing things but it should not be this hard .

[ATAG_Dutch]

We're omitting the good old British weather here me boy!

There's a bad crosswind in the stock mission.

Also there are two temperature controls to consider, oil and cylinder head.

The oil is in front of you on the orange gauges, but the cylinder head temperature is behind and to your right in a very stupid place above the fuel taps.

Set the game to have CEM and temp effects, start up engines and wait for the temps to get to 40 on the oil and just under 200 on the cyl heads. Keep opening and closing the cowl flaps, to keep cyl head temps down while the oil catches up.

Open your cowl flaps (radiators), hold it on the brakes until you're up to the gate on the throttles, about 65%, release the brakes and wait for a long time until your tail lifts. Give it a bit longer, pull back gently, and voila! You're in the air.

Immediately raise gear to cut down drag, gain some airspeed and at about 160mph cut back to zero boost and go to coarse pitch. When the the boost has increased to a steady value, reduce throttle to zero boost again. Trim for the climb.

Works for me anyway.

[AARPRazorbacks]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

We're omitting the good old British weather here me boy!

There's a bad crosswind in the stock mission.

Also there are two temperature controls to consider, oil and cylinder head.

The oil is in front of you on the orange gauges, but the cylinder head temperature is behind and to your right in a very stupid place above the fuel taps.

Set the game to have CEM and temp effects, start up engines and wait for the temps to get to 40 on the oil and just under 200 on the cyl heads. Keep opening and closing the cowl flaps, to keep cyl head temps down while the oil catches up.

Open your cowl flaps (radiators), hold it on the brakes until you're up to the gate on the throttles, about 65%, release the brakes and wait for a long time until your tail lifts. Give it a bit longer, pull back gently, and voila! You're in the air.

Immediately raise gear to cut down drag, gain some airspeed and at about 160mph cut back to zero boost and go to coarse pitch. When the the boost has increased to a steady value, reduce throttle to zero boost again. Trim for the climb.

Works for me anyway.

Thanks for the pointers. I maybe trying to take off to fast.

After you talked about the CEM. I have never tried not use that. I did and taking off is EZ and fun made my night.

I'm going to try taking off slower and see if that helps.

thanks,

flyer01

[Seeker]

How does one edit the stock training missions? I don't seem to be able to find them via the FMB's file system browser.

Reason being is that yes, unsurprisingly I've been using the stock mission to try to take off in the Blenheim (isn't that what it's for??). So far this has been impossible for me.

Quite a few have postulated that that mission has a strong crosswind component (of course! on the first buff training mission they throw in a crosswind just to encourage the noobs! What were they thinking off <bangs head on desk, hating 1C's game design team even more>), so I thought I'd open the mission in 1C's delightful content editor to remove the crosswind.

But I can't even find the mission

(and no, I still can't take off in the dammed thing).