Aernov

You decide if it is needed or not. The purpose of turbosupercharger (boost) is to allow you to get MP levels unreachable with geared supercharger (throttle) alone. Usually you can ground attack without the boost since at low altitudes your geared supercharger will give enough MP (up to 52'' at sufficient speed). If you want to do a high speed attack at 52'' MP - use full throttle and, if that's not enough - boost. If you want even higher speed to pass AAA quickly - get 64'' MP with throttle+boost+water. If you give full throttle before engaging boost, the only disadvantage is that you are required to remember that settings above 42'' and 2550 RPM are "time-limited" and can damage the engine with prolonged use and inadequate cooling. 7000 ft restriction is only actual for grade-91 fuel, DCS gives us 100.

Just don't forget to actually watch/read tutorials, try and practice formation flying and AAR in between bringing it up. I know people who learned to refuel upside-down, I've heard about people refueling upside-down with an X-Box controller, but I don't know anyone who tried and couldn't learn AAR. So, try, bring the issue up, try again and so on, soon enough there won't be an issue to bring up.

Once I noticed that my fuel pressure was sitting at about 22 PSI, bottom of blue arch. So, I played with emergency boost pump rheostat and got no change in fuel pressure. Engine operated smoothly and I got no trouble in that flight. Then I played with it in different missions, on the ground and in air, and got no pressure change. Is it not working? Is it known/reported? ^ Rheostat at normal position ^ At max boost. Also, I'm seeing different normal fuel pressure readings in real pilot's manual (16-17 in flight, >7 at idle). These manuals show different fuel pressure gauge (separate), but are marked for D models too. Did D-30/40 get more powerful fuel pump and plumbing for higher pressure? Or is it some gauge/sensor difference?

Makes sense, and looking at photos and videos confirms this. But then, shouldn't those shrouds be fixed (non-rotating)? In-game they are rotating with the cable movement and I didn't notice any apertures for the cable to enter/exit the shroud.

Very much a low priority and not really necessary. Currently there's just an empty square space inside there, IRL photos show visible heat exchangers:

Not critical by any means and you need to look for most of them to notice, but still wound be nice to have those fixed eventually. 1) Cockpit ventilation duct not connected to the wall: 2) Hydraulic hand pump base not modeled. This one is pretty noticeable: 3) Pilot O2 supply hose end visible, and possibly only half of it is modeled in places (couldn't it's end be hidden under the seat somewhere?) 4) Primer handle base has no thickness 5) Rudder pedals wire guide wheels lower portion is missing (on both sides, visible with full rudder deflection), and there's no wire groove on the wheels (how the wire is supposed to stay on them without it?) 6) Some tubes and wires behind front dash have visible ends (only if you try to look behind the panel) 7) No visible holes (or texture imitations of holes) present in armor plate for control wires Also, shouldn't there be more detailing on left rear portion of cockpit wall? Some photos show info plaques and panels with screws. And external tank selector base (cylinder protruding from the cockpit floor) has no "attachment" to the floor, it just sticks out. Aren't there a visible square plate at the cylinder's base bolted to the floor?

It may refer to turn indicator needle, since there is an instrument flying technique using this "measure": ("The Attitude Technique in Instrument flying" By RODERICK K. CLAYTON, found via Google search)

P-47D-40 suction on the ground.trk P-47D-40 suction climb 2700 RPM.trk Here are two short tracks with P-47D-40 (hot start on parking and in air, I haven't noticed a difference with cold started plane in these tests). At 900 RPM suction stays at about 3 in Hg, with RPM increase it starts to rise (beginning at around 1100 RPM) and gets to about 3.8 (low red line on the gauge) and stops there, never rising above low redline. One test was done on the ground, other - in air at military limit (2700 RPM, 52'' MP), both on Caucasus with "DCS default" weather. Same results were obtained with P-47D-30. There was an outlier case where suction rose to 4,2 in Hg in flight at high altitude (see screenshot) (P-47D-30 early, Normandy, clod start at Azeville ALG)... Edit: I've got 4.2 in Hg of suction again with D-30 early on Normandy after an air start, this time at low altitude: P-47D-30 early suction 4,2.trk Even if vacuum pump has 1:1 engine-pump RPM ratio (I don't know real ratio, but kinda doubt it is 1:1), it should still provide adequate pressure difference at 2500+ RPM. Also, aren't external tanks pressurized by vacuum pump exhaust?

Working oil dilution. Fixed hole in the model behind the cockpit. Landing gear issues. Pilot seat headrest. Hydraulic system modelling. All the other stuff in "Bugs and Problems" section that is marked as Reported, Investigating, WiP. Maybe even something out of Wish list section, like wheel chocks.

The more pressing question is: does anyone still develops and improves it?

P-39 with 2-3 modifications would work for both western (kinda) and eastern European fronts and for Pacific/Asian region.

It's non-functional still, at least in my experience.

As shown on screenshots. Although I can't remember this happening before today.

Screenshot from your track (the second one).

Confirmed. I just tried the same thing you got in your track and got the same result - only 2 bombs released with Q=4 M=1 I=80 as well. Looks like the problem occurs when same type of ordnance is to be released from different symmetrical pairs of stations in a sequence. But I did long ripples after the update with no problems...