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Yeah just a quick airtart dogfight against 4 k4s. Yeah its funny on storm of war ive had the same plane for 5 or 6 sorties and not had any issue with WEP usage all the way to drying up the water tank and others where even a minute of usage will result in the engine dipping suddenly audibly and a slow uncontrollable rise in oil temp and loss of power. It seems to happen if I baby or abuse the engine, doesnt seem to matter.

Nope I'm well aware of cutting the throttle and incurring bearing damage which is very distinct. All those questions you ask are answered in the roughly three minute track I posted. Yeah you are right 64" is max, fat fingered the post i guess. I get this failure when the oil cooler is open or neutral, it doesn't seem to matter which is what is perplexing to me. I kind of suspect the oil temp gauge may be lagging or reading incorrectly but i don't have the under the hood sim knowledge or diagnostic damage model tools like nineline or yoyo would to make a call like that. If it was as simple as RTFM that would be one thing but i get the same message and failure at different times, sometimes during WEP usage for a minute, sometimes well after and I am cruising away and at cruise power setting with the temps in the green. What is doubly perplexing is i can run the engine full WEP for 15 mins and have no problems at all sometimes, the only limiting factor is they dont refill the water injection at re arm and refuel.

Yeah, I've got quite few hours in this bird and noticed this behavior starting a month or so back for me and if you watch the track it's an air start.

Hi, I'm sure there is some kind of operator error on my part and in the past the P-47's engine was pretty reliable with WEP usage, recently I have been experiencing a brief drop in the engine and a rolling moment followed by an uncontrollable rise in oil pressure with the message in the debrief "Engine Degraded". It happens randomly sometimes during WEP usage other times afterwards when I return to a lower power setting for cruise. Sometimes, I can really abuse then engine and will will tick on just fine for several Rearms and Refuelings on multiplayer until I run out of Water injection...other times it dies if I just tap the water for minute. I'll attach a track that I tried to stay well below 65" for the fight and around 2 to 3 minutes on the 3rd 109, I get the "engine degraded" failure. Pardon the shooting but its the third time I ran it and got similar results. I'm sure it's probably operator error on my part and maybe someone more knowledgeable can set me straight but nearly all my losses since November this year have been due to this and I'd like to know what I might be doing wrong or if it's possibly a bug. I don't have random failures enabled and it happens online and offline for me as well. I have repeated with oil cooler full open and slightly open from neutral and got similar results but random times it fails. engine dead3.trk

I did find this List_of_Propellers_and_Governors_for_Service_Aircraft_1945_wwii and I see no feathering props on any P-47 models

From page 36 of the DCS P47 manual pdf.... Propeller The P-47D-30 engine rotates a 4-bladed Curtiss Electrics constant air speed propeller. Propeller pitch is changed electrically. Its diameter is 12 feet and 2 inches, blade pitch range - 33° (from 23° in low and up to 56° while in high pitch mode).

The distance is rendered very dark, but the airfields are not from the cockpit of the P-47 making them oddly stand out. The External view looks fine. Does anyone run into this issue on the Channel map? I don't recall this on my machine until recently I started playing Reflected's WolfPack campaign. I tried deleting the shaders and Fxo folders in the Saved Games, but this did not solve my issue.

+10000 I would love to have the razorback jug in the game! Although we would definitely need a mirror added for obvious reasons

Nice!

Thanks burritto, added into that as well!

Would love to see this as well, it was common practice in the USAAC to have the engines pre-warmed

Any chance to get that added for the P-47D as well? The P-47 takes a while to warm up as well and as far as i know or have seen, the Oil Dilute switch isn't functioning properly like it does on the Mustang to cut down on warm up time.

Not that I've seen

Just dropping a line to say thanks for this mod, really makes my track it easier to use in the P47!

Groovy thanks!

Just a quick question now that we are closing out the month featuring ground attacks, do the allies ever get the use of HVAR rockets instead of only being able to arm M8's on P47s? If i recall the first usage of HVARS historically was around the battles near St. Lo and the Normandy breakout. Still love the server and have a great time on there as always.

Awesome post thanks for this! How bout that rear view mirror in the cockpit wink wink ED. Would help my virtual pilots neck strain.

+1 as well, would love to see this

First try from the free fligth channel mission.

Hey Philstyle love your server and all the hard work that has been put into it. I was wondering, since the FW-190A8 gets a warm...fuel free start, is there any way the P-47 could get that as well as an option from the English bases? It might encourage more people to lug bombs and rockets across the channel in the early missions if they could cut down on the 5 to 8 mins warm up from over there and it would be in line historically. I'm a time sensitive player myself since I get online pretty much as long as the kids are napping for about an hour so every minute counts for me.

I don't know if they modified something or not (nothing I saw was in the change logs) but wheel landings in the Jug have become pretty easy as of late on grass or pavement. It was definitely a rarity to make one before the last couple of patches, but I'd say it's pretty similar to the Mustang now. Here is pretty much the same technique from your article snippet.

Thanks for the link and video. For HVAR I usually use the hash marks on the lower part of the sight to gauge my distance, and use the top of middle where the ring intersects if I am fast or slow to fire with. Usually when the vehicle is about the size of the hash mark lengthwise I fire then for distance. This guys method seems to work although he does seem to get closer before firing. For the 4.5in bazooka rockets I use the dot and funneled slant bars to aim and shoot distance wise with the hash marks below for ranging just like the HVARS. I like shooting far as possible to stay out of the AAA.

Bump...Would like to know as well

Yes it does. Here is a track if that is needed. Refueled and Rearmed after expending ADI on the runway. I tried multiple times to get ADI pressure after it was completed, pressure stayed at zero. Seems ground crew is still not refilling the tank properly. ADI Track.trk

I've noticed this online in Storm of War and offline in missions as well, once you run out of ADI for WEP in the P-47 the ground crews neglect to fill up the tank upon rearm and refueling. I haven't seen it reported, but I am running the 2.7 Beta version of DCS. If I need to upload a track I can but it's pretty easy to test on the ground. Just run around 30-40 in Manifold Pressure or until the tank gauge shows positive pressure and speed time up until the tank pressure goes to zero, re arm refuel and re test.