Immortal engine

[petsild]

Recently redesigned the limits of the engine, but after the update 2.5.3.23788 cannot be engine damage.

 

[petsild]

Unlimited engine performance persists in 2.5.3.23954!

[Holton181]

So you are saying engine damage (fire) don't occur anymore when exceeding EGT limits?

(haven't flown her for some time)

[petsild]

Exactly :(

[Sharkku]

I really don't hope they did this intentionally because noobs complained so much about the engine catching fire...

[msalama]

because noobs complained so much about the engine catching fire...

 

Well it's probably just a bug still, because this is supposed to be a simulator of high accuracy and realism. And I'm sure no-one wants to undermine that...

[petsild]

According the tests the engines :cry: are affected on most modules.

[msalama]

So a system-wide bug, not a module glitch. Needs a fix from ED then.

[petsild]

Still bad… no one cares about so seriou bug?

[QuiGon]

I do care as well!

+1

[msalama]

I just read elsewhere that the engine DM has been changed again, i.e. you can still fry it but it takes a lot more to do it, and according to those folks it's actually much nearer to its RL counterpart now in terms of usable power and the amount of collective you can pull. So maybe this is what you're seeing now? Mind that AFAIK nothing of this was ever mentioned in the changelogs but this is what people are saying regardless, although I've no idea whether it's true since I only fly the Hip nowadays myself. But that indeed is the word out there currently...

[thrustvector]

i don't know about immortal, she still catches fire and blows an engine if you push her hard

[msalama]

So either fixed or not faulty to begin with. Good to know.

[thrustvector]

well, I haven't had her for long, but I fly copters mainly....although I do own most, A10c being a fav.

but on one pretty hard mission it took a while to do, as coaxing her above mountains and overburdened, the engine failed, and on 2 occasions caught fire, so to me there doesn't seem to be a problem

[Quadg]

the EGT limits on the huey were changed around the start of September.

and no there was no notice for this.

you do have a lot more power available now.

 

you can do max power take offs and go straight up with a gunship load.

you no longer need to mess about in ground effect chasing translational lift first.

or fly at -20c to get more power with the anti icing off.

[petsild]

Now I feel like I'm in the arcade, this is the ETG solution correctly?

[msalama]

Now I feel like I'm in the arcade, this is the ETG solution correctly?

 

According to folks in the know it is, because the old EGT damage model was too sensitive and abrupt. And mind you that you can still fry the engine if you're not careful, so it's not arcade at all.

[Quadg]

the weak limits of before have made us better pilots :)

 

before they brought in EGT limits and engine damage the limits used to be even lower still. (I used to fly to the EGT limit even though it did nothing)

 

so this is the third time the huey has got more power since I got it in 2016.

[petsild]

Released several updates and the engine still can withstand extreme load.