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I remember flying MiG-15 on BlueFlag first time. It was stady flight and Server was empty, I didn't expectzed any danger. I met SA-2 and almost become a heart attack

That was also my thought, but since I also found that "N" actually never took part in WW2 I didn't like to mention it. I'm simply not sure and my sources are quite unreliable. I thought that Nat. Geo shall poses some better? Apperntly there are some doubts. Anyway... I would like to have P-47D-20 Razorback for Pacific... My best regards Green Ugly Fellow

I don't think anyone needs advice to fight single AI? They're not very smart. They fight like it's F-16 not Bf-109. Especially funny are those bogey-wogee whoen they're in Crosschair You may out-roll AI - even if it's FW-190 (Sic!) but don't try it PvP.

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1. RPM - starting the dive you shall have RPM in Green Field. 2550 is perfect. Set up RPM first since after you start your dive, the rpm. governor won't respond. On higher altitude you need to lower Manifold to be able to lower rpm sometimes. 2. While being in the dive keep eye contact with the target, don't bother the gauges. P-47 is a killer, you just have to adjust your flight- and fight-style. After 3-5 seconds of stabilized dive reduce manifold (if you operate separate - boost lower up to 50% and after next 1-3 sec. close totally. If you connect levers, slowly throttle down to 50%) 3. you may dive up to 60° these way - its enough to catch in a dive everything what flies. To do that: 4. Every enemy levels off someday. Come back to power (manifold 52 or 64 with water) smoothly, but keep 2550rpm. Power is smaller but Thrust (on high speed) isn't. You need higher RPM mostly during climb. In level flight and dive it's a waste of resources. 5. Remember - The jug keeps speed much longer than any Warbird in DCS. I cathed even FW190D. Not in a dive... but 30 sec. after a dive, when his plane stabilized it's speed. P-47 poseses gigantic kinetic energy even after one minute you're much faster than enemy who normally shall outrun you. 6. before every water injection look at a timer and say loudly what minute you see. You do that for yourself to remember how long can you keep it. In case of any problems keep 2°-3°below horizon, 2550rpm, use water and 64 manifold. Jug always bring you home these way. You don't need to be perfect in aerobatic to be P-47 ace. Actually many maneuvers are in P-47 ... forbidden. All you need is to set shooting range 1000ft, wing span 33ft, and aim where K-14 tells you. I use "strafing" belt - I love that it's full of API "Burn baby burn! " Time on max. Manifold + max. RPM is limited 7. Keep plane perfectly trimmed never shall you ever: -turnfight against Bf-109 below 25 000ft -avoid vertical manouver unless it's energy fight, and you're really patient. -fly alone. -climb (even if you're faster) with enemy on your #6. Keep your speed, separate, climb, come back and attack in 5°-10° dive. -defend using scissors. Any type you choose -energy, classic, rolling is bad... Accept vertical scissors in dive if 109 chases you, the reasons are obvious. -low + slow =dead Remember : if you run too long on water, and/or high RPM (above green lvl) you will destroy your engine by throttling down to economic level.

Ach yes... completely forgot about it. Thank you very much

God I love Phantom community PS. As far as I recall the most intensive upgrade in "Echo" came to engines. Reducing smoke, adding thrust etc...

I have no mods. Mission contained a train and that's it. I'll bring the mission here

.. and I have invisible trains on Caucasus. I set WWII asset, these old Loco and 1944, Novorossyisk tunnel and ... All I have is a sound of train passing by.

Can you please give a source of these info? I never found an information about F-4E (and especially EJ) sold without slats. No such info in Bill Gunston or other publications. It's especially strange if we remember when, how and where were EJ produced...

By the end of the war there were even P-47M (according to National Geographic documentary). However not much.

The problem is, that P-47 struggles by 30°C (I never tried to fly by higher temp.) honestly - I found myself incapable to perform aerial combat. Honestly it looked like air temperature doesn't drop by altitude for P-47. Intercooler and Cyl. Heads raises significantly even on very high altitude (30k ft). I was constantly overheated. What it's going to be like in Pacific? And second case is... Derola. Still not working. .... Having diluther would be also very nice ... not exactly necessary for Pacific, but nice. The model is almost ready accept those 2 things.

Hallo I tried to put a train on map. It has Empty Life bar at start, is visible on map moving, but in free camera one can hear only sound of train without train itself. Mosqito squadron 20230120_01.miz

Original P-47 almost has no brakes They tend to overheat fast. The ones in DCS seems to be ... too efective. I love P-47 from DCS can't get my hands off it. Big, Fat, Ugly but very Tender Girl. That's what it is. Absolutely love it. How F-4U will be?

I'm 44 (in about 4 weeks) I still kick ass. If you still need some advice: 1. Get a group - DCS is a Team-game. Single-player is sort of practice playground. 2. Stick to one plane for some longer period - I usually fly one and the same plane 9-12 months, before I decide to try something else. I just like a sit in my plane to be "well creased" 3.Try to think, that your plane is virtual, but your flying is real. It changes everything. That's what DCS is for. I for example went through almost 2 year Virtual Flying school on L-39C. A friend of mine (retired Air Force Instructor) organized it. I can't imagine doing what I do in some other sim.

Thanks , but I have flight manuals for P-47B/C/D/M... It's not an answer I'm looking for. It's not answering why plane behaves different during long flight than in short (~45min) flights. However... I have to check the 2-nd point in "Conditions to avoid" - Air Temp. 35°C. That may be a reason @Edit: That was it. Thank you for solution. My greatest respect for the devs, for "paranoid" level of Engine DM accuracy. I love you

1. I checked. I am aware that on high altitude even in straight flight it's almost impossible to control RPM - one has to first set RPM, then increase boost. 2. That would understandable reason - I may agree or disagree with FM/DM, but it sounds as logic reason - knowing it one can avoid it. My problem is not how to avoid prop. overspeed. My question is why plane behaves different during long flights. I do the same thing in short flights as I do during B-17 escort, the only difference is, that before raising power I fly a long time with low power setting.

Thank you - nice manual, but it's not the flight manual. It's just instruction for DCS Module, and yes I know chuck guide. Eather I'm not good in English as I think I am, or you desperately try not to understand me. The situation is: I fly 30-45min. Escort mission. Auto lean - 35 manifold - 25000-28000ft - 190-200°C Cyl Heads, 2300RPM. I see some contact, auto reach, BOOST 50, radiators, cowl flaps, intercooler :set. Temperatures are ok I check again in 15sec. and adjust. straight flight without dive If I use max RPM engine will die in dive. If I use 2300RPM-2600RPM (depend on turbo overspeed) engine works fine - most of the time. It is funny but I found out, that most breaks down appears when my fuel is down to about 200gal. It happens only by that amount of fuel (if you take off with 100%fuel). If I do the same by let's say 300gal. there is no problem. Engine breaks down only after long flight time with low power. I guess 99% here never tried to fly P-47 on long distance mission. The problem I described never happens if you take off with 70% fuel just to dogfight over "P-trap"

I left the link. There's much more what pilots did to these engine without blowing it up. Its reliable was legendary. 2300/50 isn't anything beyond flight manual. Engine delivers bit less power than by 2800RPM, nothing else. I would be glad to fly 2800/50, but it changes nothing accept engine blows up in dive. The document comes from the website of Historical Engines Association (US). There are also other documents there. Like R-2800 (exploitation) bulletin, and much more. I see nothing similar to DCS in them.

Good for you. You helped.

Cyl. heads 190°C - thanks for mentioning. All you wrote, sounds logic, but only at first glance How do you explain, that I can fly from T-O till landing with full throttle (main and boost) forward on, manifold 52-54, RPM 2300-2500 until I burn whole the fuel in main and auxiliary? Problem appears only when I try to fly "by the book". Only when I try to save some fuel, by using "auto lean", lower rpm and manifold. Like during long escort mission, with auxiliary tanks. Using more power only if really needed. If I fly like an Idiot, full throttle whole the time, P-47 works just fine. Here are more information about R-2800 like the one: "Just prior to World War II, Frank Walker was responsible for the development of anti-detonation injection (ADI) for the R-2800. ADI forces a water-alcohol mix into the induction system to cool the supercharged fuel-air mixture, thereby allowing a much higher manifold pressures and power outputs. Using ADI, Walker was able to coax 3800 HP from an experimental “C” engine at manifold pressures up to 150 in Hg!1 This is nearly twice the power the engine was designed to produce. In addition to its reputation for ruggedness in aircraft like the P-47, the R-2800 developed a reputation for reliability in airline service after World War II. It had a recommended time between overhauls of 2000 hours on twin-engine aircraft, and 3000 hours on 4-engine aircraft." Source: 1. Frank Walker, interview by author (Huntsville, AL, March 29, 1999) 2.R-2800 Engine Reliability, internal memorandum to Pratt & Whitney Field Service Personnel (December 21, 1967) More you may find in these documentation: http://www.enginehistory.org/NoShortDays/Development of the R-2800 Crankshaft.pdf The more I read about Double Wasp the less I find common sence in DCS R-2800 damage model. There is a lot about vibrations (Linear and Torsional X1, X1,5, X2, X3,5...) and struggle during development to overcome it. But main rod bearing lubrication, doesn't look like any serious problem in case of Double Wasp.

You may change position of every switch during pause. It won't move, but right after you turn off pause they'll jump into desired position.

Never happened. Even if you try from 35000ft

Dear Sirs! I have a problem, and I can't find solution or reason for it. It happened 2-nd time in 2 days. What am I doing wrong? P-47D30 Early Straight flight / gentle climb, without dive. Multiplayer, 4Ya Overlord. -2300rpm -manifold 50 -oil pressure "blue", oil temp "blue", air temp intercooler "blue", turbo about 1400 RPM. loud "kaboom" from behind a cockpit: ["failureDisplayName"] = "Engine #1 erroneous ignition timing induced damage", ["t"] = 10579.065, ["target"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["targetMissionID"] = "596", ["targetPilotName"] = "=Crow=Kermit", ["target_coalition"] = 2, ["target_object_id"] = 16777475, ["target_unit_type"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["target_ws_type1"] = 1, ["type"] = "failure", ["weapon"] = "Aw shoot.", second kaboom behind a cockpit: ["failure"] = "ENG0_DAMAGED_BEYOND_REPAIR", ["failureDisplayName"] = "Engine #1 damaged beyond repair", ["t"] = 10579.065, ["target"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["targetMissionID"] = "596", ["targetPilotName"] = "=Crow=Kermit", ["target_coalition"] = 2, ["target_object_id"] = 16777475, ["target_unit_type"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["target_ws_type1"] = 1, ["type"] = "failure", ["weapon"] = "Aw shoot.", "boost" throttle goes down: ["failure"] = "ENG0_MAIN_BEARING_DAMAGED", ["failureDisplayName"] = "Failure.ENG0_MAIN_BEARING_DAMAGED", ["t"] = 10579.065, ["target"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["targetMissionID"] = "596", ["targetPilotName"] = "=Crow=Kermit", ["target_coalition"] = 2, ["target_object_id"] = 16777475, ["target_unit_type"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["target_ws_type1"] = 1, ["type"] = "failure", ["weapon"] = "Aw shoot.", engine stops: ["initiatorMissionID"] = "596", ["initiatorPilotName"] = "=Crow=Kermit", ["initiator_coalition"] = 2, ["initiator_object_id"] = 16777475, ["initiator_unit_type"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["initiator_ws_type1"] = 1, ["t"] = 10600.145, ["type"] = "engine shutdown", P-47 CKBWL.log

Same here. P-47D30 Early Straight flight, without dive -2300rpm -manifold 50 -oil pressure "blue", oil temp "blue", air temp intercooler "blue" loud "kaboom" from behind a cockpit: ["failureDisplayName"] = "Engine #1 erroneous ignition timing induced damage", ["t"] = 10579.065, ["target"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["targetMissionID"] = "596", ["targetPilotName"] = "=Crow=Kermit", ["target_coalition"] = 2, ["target_object_id"] = 16777475, ["target_unit_type"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["target_ws_type1"] = 1, ["type"] = "failure", ["weapon"] = "Aw shoot.", second kaboom behind a cockpit: ["failure"] = "ENG0_DAMAGED_BEYOND_REPAIR", ["failureDisplayName"] = "Engine #1 damaged beyond repair", ["t"] = 10579.065, ["target"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["targetMissionID"] = "596", ["targetPilotName"] = "=Crow=Kermit", ["target_coalition"] = 2, ["target_object_id"] = 16777475, ["target_unit_type"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["target_ws_type1"] = 1, ["type"] = "failure", ["weapon"] = "Aw shoot.", "boost" throttle goes down: ["failure"] = "ENG0_MAIN_BEARING_DAMAGED", ["failureDisplayName"] = "Failure.ENG0_MAIN_BEARING_DAMAGED", ["t"] = 10579.065, ["target"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["targetMissionID"] = "596", ["targetPilotName"] = "=Crow=Kermit", ["target_coalition"] = 2, ["target_object_id"] = 16777475, ["target_unit_type"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["target_ws_type1"] = 1, ["type"] = "failure", ["weapon"] = "Aw shoot.", engine stops: ["initiatorMissionID"] = "596", ["initiatorPilotName"] = "=Crow=Kermit", ["initiator_coalition"] = 2, ["initiator_object_id"] = 16777475, ["initiator_unit_type"] = "P-47D-30bl1", ["initiator_ws_type1"] = 1, ["t"] = 10600.145, ["type"] = "engine shutdown", P-47 CKBWL.log