BETA PATCH v1.06.17582 + Mini FIX--Bug thread

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Tavingon

Blenhiem takeoff is like a brick for me after patch

You can now use emergency power and partial flaps.

With the patch i can easily take off in the previously impossible cross country quick mission...with 100% fuel and a full bomb load

How to:

Mixture auto rich (levers full back) and prop pitch fine for high RPM (levers full forward)

Start engines on outboard tanks and get them to about 130 degrees cylinder temps and 50-60 degrees oil temps. They warm up much faster now so pay attention if you are used to warming them up with closed cowl flaps. You also spawn with the parking brakes on, so you can run them up a bit. At this point you can throttle them up enough to taxi to runway.

Once aligned with the runway, open your radiators fully and come to a stop. Calibrate your compass, center your rudder trim (it still spawns with starboard trim dialed in) and set your flaps to 20 degrees.

To set flaps: we now have flaps up, flaps down and flaps neutral, this governs the flap motors. So, press flaps down until the motor is set to lower them, then once you hit 20 degrees press flaps up to bring it back to neutral and keep them there.


For take-off: Engage boost cut out. Smoothly advance throttles to maximum. If your cylinder temps are below 150 you might get a big of sputtering from the engines, so you could check and momentarily close your cowl flaps before takeoff to bring it back up.

Roll out, lift off at about 70 mph and retract gear as soon as you have a positive rate of climb. Keep climbing at full emergency boost, just watch your cylinder temps (mine hover around 230 during this part) and don't climb too steep. Steep = slow = no airflow = overheating.

Climb to 500ft or so above ground and let your nose drop to level flight in order to speed up and increase airflow over the engines.
At this point you can configure for cruise/climb and save your engines from further heating. Retract flaps, pull prop pitch back to coarse, throttle back to +3 and disable boost cut out. Switch to inboard tanks.

You will lose a bit of altitude during this last part, but once you get to 140 mph it flies and climbs beautifully on coarse pitch all day long (i only use fine pitch for take-off, approach and landing).
Just monitor your temps during the flight and you'll be fine. It's much more forgiving now and you need less open cowl flaps once you are moving at a good pace.

[JG52Krupi]

Dammit Blackdog now my fingers are itching to get back in the old dog, hopefully all aircraft will be a pain/so much fun to fly!

[McFeckit]

Nice post Blackdog....just what I've been looking for, a quick Bleneim fly guide. Wish we had a thread for such posts, a simple "How to fly a ---- in 10 basic steps". I think such posts could help get people off the ground so that they can learn to better fly a ---- overtime.

Problem is such a thread would soon get polluted with everyone's opinions on how to fly a ---- such that the simple goal of helping people try other planes would get lost in a bucket of bile

Oh well....thanks for the post though!

[DroopSnoot]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

You can now use emergency power and partial flaps.

With the patch i can easily take off in the previously impossible cross country quick mission...with 100% fuel and a full bomb load

How to:

Mixture auto rich (levers full back) and prop pitch fine for high RPM (levers full forward)

Start engines on outboard tanks and get them to about 130 degrees cylinder temps and 50-60 degrees oil temps. They warm up much faster now so pay attention if you are used to warming them up with closed cowl flaps. You also spawn with the parking brakes on, so you can run them up a bit. At this point you can throttle them up enough to taxi to runway.

Once aligned with the runway, open your radiators fully and come to a stop. Calibrate your compass, center your rudder trim (it still spawns with starboard trim dialed in) and set your flaps to 20 degrees.

To set flaps: we now have flaps up, flaps down and flaps neutral, this governs the flap motors. So, press flaps down until the motor is set to lower them, then once you hit 20 degrees press flaps up to bring it back to neutral and keep them there.


For take-off: Engage boost cut out. Smoothly advance throttles to maximum. If your cylinder temps are below 150 you might get a big of sputtering from the engines, so you could check and momentarily close your cowl flaps before takeoff to bring it back up.

Roll out, lift off at about 70 mph and retract gear as soon as you have a positive rate of climb. Keep climbing at full emergency boost, just watch your cylinder temps (mine hover around 230 during this part) and don't climb too steep. Steep = slow = no airflow = overheating.

Climb to 500ft or so above ground and let your nose drop to level flight in order to speed up and increase airflow over the engines.
At this point you can configure for cruise/climb and save your engines from further heating. Retract flaps, pull prop pitch back to coarse, throttle back to +3 and disable boost cut out. Switch to inboard tanks.

You will lose a bit of altitude during this last part, but once you get to 140 mph it flies and climbs beautifully on coarse pitch all day long (i only use fine pitch for take-off, approach and landing).
Just monitor your temps during the flight and you'll be fine. It's much more forgiving now and you need less open cowl flaps once you are moving at a good pace.

Bravo dude nice post It'd be great if you could see your way to a sticky for it

[satchenko]

Any news today BlackSix?

[SEE]

The disappearing ac/LOD's is worse with this mini fix.

Had my first Screen Freeze and Launcher crash on ATAG about 30 min after joining. Files sent.

Stutters and huge FPS jumps over certain areas of the map (even at 18k) are also back. Locking Vsync to 30fps seems to have cured that problem.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Dammit Blackdog now my fingers are itching to get back in the old dog, hopefully all aircraft will be a pain/so much fun to fly!

You know you wanna...

The only reason i'm not flying the Blenheim more is that i'm making up for lost time with the Ju88. Previously my CPU would occasionally overheat and force a full PC reboot, but with the 88 it happened each and every time. Now that the new patch gives slightly lower CPU loads my temps are nice and cool and i can fly the 88, so i'm focusing on that one for a while.

Originally Posted by ATAG_Keller

I've noticed while flying the He-111 and Stuka that some cockpit textures as well as external skin textures are low resolution when below 1000m, when you exceed 1000m of elevation the high resolution textures kick in.

Last night I did a dive bomb attack with a Stuka and noticed the low resolution textures had come back when I pulled out of my dive.

I've had low-res textures since forever, not just with the latest alpha patches. I think it's a combination of the way textures get loaded, as well as available video RAM (and maybe plain RAM as well).

What you are describing to me sounds similar. Not enough memory to load everything at the detail settings you choose, but as soon as you climb a bit and the ground LOD transition kicks into effect some resources are freed to load up your cockpit textures. As soon as you dive below that altitude the ground loads again at increased detail, it's out of resources again and the cockpit textures drop in detail to compensate.