Cold starts

[Major Corvus]

Firstly, I'm a fan of Reflected's work and I appreciate the amount of effort and passion he puts in to these campaigns.

I'm only on mission 3 of this campaign, so that's two flyable one's and the mission one intro, but already I'm getting anoyed at the fact that on such time sensitive missions, I'm having to cold start the Anton and taxi for take off straight away.

In mission two (defending the sub Calais harbour), the briefing, start up and taxi for take off all has to occur in four minutes to comply with the wheels up time. Additionally, the rest of the flight Taxi to a runway intersection intead of the end, which means that I was unable to use the full runway length for take off whilst weighted down with an external fuel tank. So on the first two times I attempte to take off and make the timetable, I had to use full power with cold oil which resulted in a damaged engine that failed enroute to the objective.

Eventually I was able to tease the plane up at reduced power, almost clipping the perimeter fence and stalling, and was able to warm the engine up whilst flying at a low power setting orbitting the airfield, and the rest of the mission was great with the usual high standard of voice acting and mission design.

Mission three is an emergency scramble situation, and again I started in a cold and dark Anton. I quit out as I was still annoyed from mission two.

I'm no expert on the subject, but I'm pretty sure the ground crew would have started the plane as the pilot ran from the officer's mess or where ever he was when the bell rang, and DCS being as realistic as it can be, the Anton takes something like ten minutes to warm up fully, and the oil temp hardly moves for the first five minutes, and even before you can start the engine there's about a minutes worth of breaker pushing and fly wheel energising.

Are there more missions where the timetable is as tight as this on this campaign? I love cold starting a plane in VR, as it really adds to the immersion and builds a sense of involvement, but I find cold starts in these situations to be annoying, and something of a deal breaker.

[Reflected]

Unfortunately DCS doesn’t have an option to do a cold start with a warmed up engine.  Nothing I can do about that. 
 

but all those missions are set up in a way that the mission would ‘wait’ for you if you take longer to warm up. That’s the best I can do. 

[Major Corvus]

I actually meant in such missions you'd start in a running hot started aircraft, but I understand that you're restricted by the host sim.

Thanks and keep up the good work