Oleg Maddox's Room #1

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by brando

This is not correct. Ten or twenty minutes is way more than it took for a pilot to fire up his engine before a scramble for one simple reason - a pre-flight start-up and run-up had already been carried out by the ground crew. This was a customary procedure for all fighter planes that were placed on stand-by for immediate action, certainly in the RAF. In other words, the planes were already warmed up and required much less of a procedure than for a cold-start. Sometimes the pilot was involved in this morning preparation, but more likely it was carried out entirely by the fitter and the rigger. Often the pilot wasn't involved at all in the start-up.



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I was refering to the bombers such as the H111.
Realistic start up procedures from start to finish will only be fun for a while, used once or twice then disabled.
Your version that the ground crew will do it all for you kind-of defeats your argument to have it enabled in the first place...