4.12.2 de-bugging

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Originally Posted by Baddington_VA

That goes for every aircraft in IL2.
If the leak doesn't stop, it sucks out fuel from every tank.

Fire in a fuel tank also means that you lose fuel from the tank - probably at an accelerated rate from just a bad leak.

So, in addition to wing tank fuel fires not weakening the wing at all, they will also suck fuel from all the other tanks at a very rapid rate. This means that a plane like the A-20, with a range of over 1,000 miles and 100% fuel can be completely drained of fuel by a fuel tank fire in just a few minutes.

While it would probably be far too much effort to simulate fuel transfer, or even fuel shut-off, a simple fix for this problem is to just limit the maximum amount of fuel that can be lost from a fuel tank leak or fire to Percentage of total fuel stored in that tank/percentage of remaining fuel.

For example, if 25% of the plane's total fuel is stored in the outport port wing tank, you've got 50% fuel left, and that tank gets holed or set on fire, the maximum fuel you can lose is 50% of 25% or 12.5% of your original fuel load.

Realistically, that's bit simplistic, since it assumes that a leak will completely drain the tank, which isn't always the case, but it's good enough.