DetroiTechno

I've owned the P47 for over a year now and since I've owned it I can't get the wingmen to do anything. I thought it was a bug that would be fixed but 1 year later it is still an issue. Time to report this and get a response on why this happens. Instant Action - A8 Dogfight in The Channel as an example. We are going against 12 Antons. I say to the Flight - Engage Bandits... nothing... I say to Wingman - Engage Bandits... Nothing... Then about 20 seconds later I see tracers shooting me down and 3 P47s flying in formation with me! I just tried an A8 dogfight vs Thunderbolts and when I tell my flight and my wingman to engage bandits they say "2 Engaging Bandits" This never happens with my Spitfire / P51 etc... I have ALL the warbirds and this is never an issue with any of them. You tell them to engage bandits and they break off and do their own thing. P47 wingmen just fly in formation with me while I'm burning. Please let me know if you need more information or if this is a bug or something I could possibly be doing wrong. Thanks!

Incremental update came in and was 10gb for me and it reinstalled all the planes again. Instead of deleting all the folders I deleted them from the module manager this time. Thanks for the help!

I manually deleted all the folders (again) with the last update. I will try to do it manually next time after they all download again. Thanks for the help!

I appreciate the replies! I just don't see where to remove them in-game. Module manager > Modules > the planes just say "buy". Module manager > Installed > the planes aren't there. Is there some other place in the module manager that I can remove them? Thanks for any help!

I have tried numerous planes during the free trials. I delete these planes from the mods folders if I don't choose to buy them. However... Every time I update DCS it downloads these planes again... then I need to delete them from the Mods/aircraft folder again. This is a time waster for me and a bandwidth waster for ED. Can anyone please tell me how to stop DCS from downloading expired trial planes again every time I update? Thanks!

I'm really having a difficult time with this in VR with my Reverb G2 finding the right viewpoint. I have a button to reset the view but I can never find a spot that feels natural. Whatever I find that feels "natural" definitely makes the gun sight unusable. Is the gun sight supposed to be in the middle of the plane and awkward for the pilot to look through? *sigh* Hope they iron this out or I am able to get used to this.

I am having a very difficult time finding the right head position in VR. I have a button setup on my hotas to reset the view. I need to put my head in all sorts of awkward positions to see through the gun sight. I try to reset the view in these awkward positions but it never feels right. The reviews I see for the plane are all using Track IR and it looks like it is not an issue at all. I've only flown the plane for about an hour. Perhaps this is an early access issue or something I will figure out. But the gun sight is awkward in VR for me.

Today is the second update I've seen released and I have not seen any mention of this being fixed. Does anyone know if this has been fixed in the latest beta update 2.7.6.12852 or was it fixed in another release? I quit flying the plane

Well, the original post documenting the bug was posted on the 5th of November 2020. The post has been closed and considered reported. That was 279 days ago today August 11th 2021.

THIS!!!! I changed the curve on my throttle so the afterburner notch is 3k RPM. I was so excited I thought I had found a fix! I had a half tank of fuel because flying around at 3000 RPM is horrible for fuel economy... So I landed and refueled. A few minutes after takeoff the engine seized. The track is 77mb so it's too big to share here. I don't think MW-50 has anything to do with it. I always keep it on. You don't actually use it unless you go full throttle anyway. I don't see how the rad shutters would make a difference and they would just slow you down. I'm not sure there is a fix at this point until our friends at ED get around to fixing the bug What else can we do???

Nope, just blew up the engine at 3000 RPM after flying for about 30 minutes. I watched the track again to verify I did not overheat the engine. It just... dies... randomly. So running at 3000 RPM is NOT a fix.

There is currently a bug with the Fw 190 D9. The engine seizes randomly. It has happened to me numerous times in the Storm or War multiplayer server. It sucks. There is a thread documenting the problem here. The bug has been reported and documented numerous times over 5 pages in this thread over 8 months from November 2020 to August 2021 today but the thread has been locked. Just in case this bug isn't fixed quickly... I am creating this thread to see if there is anything we can do as users to mitigate the fact that the engine blows up randomly. Is there a workaround? The plane has already very little usage in multiplayer and now a bug that randomly blows up the engine. We invest not only our money but our time into flying these planes. I welcome being randomly shot down after 30 minutes in a multiplayer server. But I cannot accept a bug that seizes the engine 30 minutes into a flight for no reason. The last time I had this problem I was just about to dive on an unsuspecting P51 and the engine seized. I admit I rage quit... and then hunted in the forum for a reason and a solution. I really want to fly the plane but I just can't logically fly it if there is a chance the engine will seize and end my playing time in the game; forcing me to restart or just quit. Do I fly the K4? Or do I risk a random game breaking bug that forces me to quit xx minutes into playing if I fly the Dora? I'm hoping there is a way around this while we patiently wait for a fix. For example: the engine seems to seize at 2700 RPM randomly. But other users say they have no seizing problems flying at military power. it seems counterintuitive but can we fly at 3000 RPM and avoid engine failure? I don't have the time or the patience to test this out myself. I keep blowing up the engine!!! I hope this leads to a fruitful discussion and workarounds while we wait patiently for this bug to be fixed

This has happened twice to me now on the Storm of War server. Flying at 2700 RPM carefully watching temps and the engine seizes for no reason. Is this an "old" mission? If SOW is not an old mission then it does not only happen on old maps. Because it happens in SOW. I can't logically fly the plane in SOW anymore if I run a chance of a bug randomly blowing up the engine. I can't logically fly the plane at all with a bug that blows up the engine. For what it's worth... I work in tech. If 20 clients came to me with a product breaking bug with numerous examples of them clearly experiencing the issue... and I told them "I can't consistently reproduce the bug so we can't fix it"... they would have my head and never hire me again for that response to the problem.

Just read through 5 pages of this post looking for an answer to this problem. Just wasted 20 minutes of my life in SOW again trying to fly the dora and... the engine died at 2700rpm for absolutely no reason. Why would anyone fly a plane in multiplayer that has a bug where the engine randomly dies? Why would I fly this plane again now when I risk a random engine failure bug 20 minutes into a flight? Why hasn't this been fixed when so many people have documented the bug over and over? It's nice to see how calm everyone is in here. We all spend a tremendous amount of money on this game. I'd expect more people to be flaming and asking for refunds on the plane until they fix this. *shaking my head* Does ED have a fix coming for this in the next patch or should I request a refund on the plane?

That seems to do the trick. Don't switch to external until you are in the air. Thanks for the help!