Rutch

I agree it would be great if there was a way to either: - Hot start engines at mission start. That way, the engines are on and warming up as soon as mission briefing begins; or - add 5-10 mins to the mission start time to allow more time for engine warm up and form up etc. I.e, if set course is at 18:10 then keep it at that, but start the actual mission at 17:50 (for example). the second point would be great and could work well with the current setup, as Reflected added the great feature of being able to give a ‘thumbs up’ when you’re ready to taxi. I appreciate it’s out of Reflected’s control. Would be good if the Engines were warm at mission start as it would have been this way in Ww2.

@Reflected thank you for the update to TBS. You are a legend.

I’ve played your Beware Beware twice through already. The second time without any deaths (so far). Looking forward to flying the missions on the big show from Biggin - I’ve got so used to flying home to Biggin on the hill. Thanks

So to confirm, you’re waiting for Urga to update the map and then you can update the Big show campaign?

@NineLine I believe @grafspee and a few others have provided Rolls Royce documentation to support the point that the spitfire (in most cases) had a thermostatic valve, which keeps the RAD temp at 80 degrees or above. I will try and do a track to show it < 60 degrees in general flight

I understand that it still allows some flow through, but given the minimum temperature of the radiator is 60 degrees, then when it drops to just above 40, I wonder whether a) that’s an issue and b) whether that would happen for real? if I was a pilot in ww2, flying at 20,000 feet over France and suddenly my radiator temperature dropped to c. 40 degrees, I might start to worry…

Ok thanks

Hi NineLine, is there any chance this could be looked at? Thank you

Hi @Reflected I am a big fan of your work, so thank you. I just wondered whether there is any updated briefing documents for the big show channel map version? I like to pre-plan based off your briefings for fuel etc. but I’ve noticed that the knee board info is correct but the briefing docs are for the normandy map. I appreciate you have a lot on, but just wondered whether you could provide the course / heading and timings in some form so I can plan. Thank you again Rutch

Thank you very much for this excellent explanation grafspee. For this reason I wish the DCS spit would reflect this. When flying at low boost and RPM and at higher altitudes, when I check the temps I am not seeing what I would expect I.e. I am seeing coolant at 40 degrees rather than above 60. I wonder whether the technical people could further update the spit. At the moment I am warning up my engine so the coolant is > 60 degrees but as soon as I take off and throttle back to low boost it drops below 60, which doesn’t seem right.

Thank you. So in theory, the coolant temp should never drop below 60? Given the thermostatic valve in place? thanks

Sorry to try and reopen this, but as people have observed, the overcooling appears to have been fixed. That said, the coolant temperature is still dropping below 40 degrees when flying at say 20,000 or 30,000 feet… or at high speed in a shallow dive from height Should the radiator have an auto feature to prevent it dropping below 60 degrees? All the best.

Also, found this on YouTube. The engine failure issue appears to be less of a thing:

Ah I see your point @AndytotheD what I meant to point out was the radiator temperature staying above 60 at moderate power settings.

Hi all, thanks for the efforts here. Just a quick question. So if we want to fly at 0+ boost and 2000 RPM, we have to periodically clean the spark plugs by throttling up to 15+ boost and 3000RPM otherwise the engine dies? The video below is from ‘The Longest Flight’ and at 0:27 you can see they are in the cruise at 8000 ft, 0+ boost and 2000 with the rad temp just above 60 degrees. In my experience the oil pressure goes through the roof and then the engine quits. the Rad temp goes below 40 which doesn’t seem right. Is this being looked at? Thank you and happy holidays all. R

So glad the spit’s cooling system is getting some attention. Thank you.

Thank you for your reply. The problem as I see it is; the engine coolant over cools (falls way below the minimum) when flying at angels 10 or 20 and using conservative power settings I.e. 2000RPM and +0ibs boost or when descending from altitude (the engine will die). The only solution is to dilute the oil, which isn’t ideal.

I would also like to give this a nudge. I have been playing the new 'Beware, Beware' campaign (so far, excellent). I am finding it frustrating that I am having to use max continuous or +4 boost rather than 0 pounds and 2000 / 1800 RPM. Even +5 and 2,650 seems to cause issues with the Spit at higher altitudes. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that we want to be able to run our Spitfires economically, so that we can fly the missions for an hour and a half and return to home base without having to glide or bail out - it really ruins the ending. Thank you R

Great, thanks!

I got captured lol which was a shame but it’s so good and immersive. ok so essentially I need to make sure I get back across the channel or call Air Sea Rescue in order to progress (seems obvious now). thanks very much! The campaign is so fun. R

Hey Reflected, thank you so much for creating this campaign (and the others) they are so good. just a quick question - on mission 7 of BNBOB I got hit and bailed out, and when I clicked end mission and then clicked to play the next, it came back to mission 7. I seem to be stuck on this mission. Will it make me play it until I land safely back at base? thank you R