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I may be miss understand this but ED mentioned "visual improvements" not performance improvement. Anyway i don't think so that performance improvements are needed to be announced, performance had to be always one of main goals since it directly increase income, if mosquito module impact FPS so much that only high end GPU could handle it, a lot less ppl would be keen to buy this.

How do you know that inlet is bigger then outlet have you measured it. Only means of airflow on the ground is prop wash and wind, in every case where wind blows against prop wash or blow from side which deflect prop wash will end up with crippled air flow through radiators simple as that. If wind blows in same direction as prop wash it will increase airflow through radiators.

It is never closed, it will help cooling regardless off radiator shutters position. Wind is airflow.

Head on wind will definitely help cooling, if it actually 0 wind provide better cooling, then this is definitely a bug.

109 is very light plane it will climb very well. If you pull max power you can climb 30+ m/s. Flight model would change 100 times if it was based on feelings, some reference data would be much better then just feelings.

If wind blows from behind it will reduce cooling efficiency, so with liquid cooled warbirds you always need to watch wind. Taxing with tail wind is always a problem. 20kts wind is way above P-51 capability for safe take off any way Even if this is perfect 90 degree crosswind is present it will push prop wash sideways so it will miss cooler scoop makes less efficient, so when wind is present always point nose of the plane head on the wind. 20kts is quite strong wind.

Im not sure why ED is announcing that they will improve visuals for p-47 FW-190A and mosquito in those case i would say that visuals are outstanding and at the same time P-51 FW 190D and spitfire which have a lot of problems in visual, additional extremely out dated models make those birds look simply ugly comparing to the rest.

Problem was reported some time ago, and it affects all lights, navigation lights as well.

@Robi-wan I am not a pilot IRL. Back to the elevator trim, what you showed on screens from manuals, it is obvious that mosquito supposed to be rigged so the level flight could be done with elevator trim indicator being between neutral and 1 notch. I wasn't totally against you, plane behavior from manual which you showed show same behavior in DCS, when i deploy flaps mosquito pitches up, when i drop gear mosquito pitches down so those 2 deployed at the same time will more or less cancel so trim change isn't noticeable for me.

So the problem does not lie how trim works in DCS but problem is that when we set neutral elevator trim, trim tab is perfectly aligned to elevator trailing edge, but according to the manual it should be deflected up when in cockpit indicator shows half a notch. It looks like that neutral trim is not exactly trim tab aligned with trailing edge. Fix easy to implement i think. It is indicator pointer problem

@Terry Dactil Yes, exactly.

If you put more mass behind wings which provides lift and this is a case, it will make even higher pitch up moment which had to be corrected by heavy nose down trim. But this could be easily corrected, by adjusting horizontal stabilizer angle of incidence, so the trim would be shifted to more neutral or even noes up range but designer didn't chose to do so.

Maybe in this mosquito model you won't find config to to be able to fly with nose up trim range. maybe you are right that complete FM will change trim, but look at spitfire, i don't use nose down trim in spit at all too, is is always nose up more o less.

@Robi-wan Ofc that all trims have neutral position in terms of trim tabs being aligned with trailing edges, but setting trim tabs that way do not guarantee that plane will fly straight. I just loaded mosquito with bombs and for level flight i need almost 2 notch nose down for level flight, i gues that if we were able to remove 20mm stuck level flight trim would be neutral or something very close to it. From mosquito manual, trim expected to be nose heavy for take off, so trim is modeled ok

@Robi-wan are you sure that you don't have game flight mode checked, because i have to trim a lot when i deploy gear or flaps. Mosquito in DCS behave just like in that page from manual. But remember there is no neutral position in elevator trim, manual refers to trim acquired by pilot for level flight, so when pilot deploy flaps or gears will know what plane do. And elevator trim for level flight will change with load out of the plane, when its empty or fully loaded, level flight trim will change.

It does change a lot, problematic operation at low power ranges, spark plugs with different heat rating are required, i think it require use different oil too. Operating engine at low powers ranges with 150 fuel makes couple problems, very high lead quantities makes spark plugs foul a lot, and low engine oil temp not allow to fuel evaporate fast enough from oil, diluting it do danger levels. 150 wasn't perfect. Only reason why use this fuel is for higher power settings, but overall 150 is worse then 130/100 fuel. I could only see 150fuel as paid upgrade, because it require a lot of additional modeling to represent true 150 fuel operation difficulties, simply uplifting max MP w/o 150 fuel handicaps would be just not realistic.

I drive car everyday and throttle does not control engine rpm in some cases, if i roll down the hill my rpm goes up even when i lift foot off throttle. Same case with plane prop is geared to engine with no clutch. So when you cut throttle in flight both cases rpm wont go down

On my take off video i set throttle to get 6 boost and i didnt touch throttle anymore, rpm change was done by rpm lever only. In flight throttle controls boost, rpm lever controls rpm. Spitfire has constant speed prop, no matter how much power or how high speed is yours it will keep rpm constant, so only rpm lever can change rpm

Yep this i would like to investigate, unfortunately i am in job and i will replay it once i got home. High chances that someone else will solve this before me

.trk file so i can load it in game and watch what happen.

I just tried it in P-47 it don't work, oil pressure haven't drop a bit.

Not much to see here, pls upload track. If your boost low push throttle ahead. Make sure that you bind your controllers properly, and make sure that multiple binds are removed. Just did normandy instant action take off, everything shines.

Thing is reported, so it is in fix queue somewhere

Answer is very simple, what you need to model and code to be able to work with mfs is only tip of the iceberg of what you need to model and code for DC, In mfs every thing looks nice but every combat plane does not work actually, you can't shoot, drop bombs or even you can't bail out.

@Art-J if you can look at page which i linked, there is a table with operating pressure levels and pressures for feathering and unfeathering are 5 times higher then normal gavernor pressure, it is obvious that prop can be feathered w/o engine oil pump. Oil pressure provided by engine is not enough for gavernor to work so governor as well uses additional oil pressure booster.