Lack of engine thrust after landing to rearm/refuel

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Apologies if this has been brought up before, but did any of you have the problem of landing the Harrier for rearm/refuel, but not having enough engine thrust after takeoff to stay in the air, and crashing because of it? I have had that happen several times now.

At one point I removed all armament, and tried to take off vertically with only 49% fuel but couldn't: I could see some weight coming off the wheels but that was all. Clean and 49% fuel is not too heavy for a vertical take-off: it's only 17k pounds while you have 23.4k pounds of thrust available (normally).

 

And on other occasions I simply refuelled to full and loaded the exact same loadout that I had at the start of the mission e.g. gunpod, DECM, 2x IRMAV and 4x SA. I did a normal short take-off, but then got an engine overheat mastercaution, lost engine thrust and only had a few seconds to eject before my beautiful plane crashed into the ground...

[al531246]

See other thread - https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3309942

[comie1]

I'm going to play about with this some more. I had this issue twice and thought it was probably my own fault. Since I've been more careful with temps and rpm and never had the issue since.