Maverick Su-35S Posted September 3, 2024 Posted September 3, 2024 Hi, Whenever you are at 1% or above for any engine rpm, the ground crew won't ever repair your aircraft, including if the weather plays it's role as well by having the wind blowing fast enough to keep your engines at or above 1% rpm! Can you please correct the code and let them start repairing even when the rpm is as high as 7% ? It is frustrating and can even become annoying to wait for starting a repair on some aircraft which take a lot to have their engines rpm go down to 0% and you probably already know it too! You can be pretty sure that even at 7..8% rpm on the low spool (which gives the highest airflow rate) no jet engine will ever pose the danger of sucking a human. I say this even from my own experiences as working on Boeing 737NGs (which have big engines compared to fighters) for 8 years, when for a good amount of times I had the chance to do some dry engine motoring runs which gets up to some 28-30%rpm on the high spool and some 8% on the low spool and during those runs I would put my hand in front of the inlet to see how much force would pull it when held directly flat/perpendicular to the airflow (90AoA) and to my surprise I would guess it was around less than 3..2lbf which would drag it into the inlet, so..., there is no risk in getting sucked in at all at such low rpm. So, can you please re-code the aircraft repair to start repairing whenever you are below at least 7% or 5% rpm? The amount of time (3 mins) of repairing isn't realistic at all anyway, as well as the rearming, so at least make the low limit engines rpm a little higher for starting repairs! Many thanks! 3 When you can't prove something with words, let the math do the talking. I have an insatiable passion for helping simulated aircraft fly realistically. Don't underestimate my knowledge before understanding what I talk about! Sincerely, your flight model reviewer/advisor.
itsthatguy Posted September 7, 2024 Posted September 7, 2024 In modules that simulate it, whenever you face into the wind, and your engine windmills a little too much, it will prevent you from repairing. I think if the RPM is above 1% the ground crew won't repair. Fixing this is as simple as raising that number to 3 or 5%. 1
Maverick Su-35S Posted September 11, 2024 Author Posted September 11, 2024 On 9/8/2024 at 1:11 AM, itsthatguy said: I second this. It's very annoying. It's funny when you have to restart the engine/s and reorient the plane so that the wind won't keep any of them at 1% non-stop, so you can find an orientation to have them finally reach 0% and be able to repair. some normal 7% or at least minimum 5% shouldn't be a big deal to be more decent. 1 When you can't prove something with words, let the math do the talking. I have an insatiable passion for helping simulated aircraft fly realistically. Don't underestimate my knowledge before understanding what I talk about! Sincerely, your flight model reviewer/advisor.
draconus Posted September 12, 2024 Posted September 12, 2024 Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
Mobius_11804 Posted September 26, 2024 Posted September 26, 2024 Everytime i get that "unable to repair, shut down engines" message, i remember 20yr old me, hopping into the first intake of a german F-4F as soon as the pilot had put the throttle into cut-off, in mid-summer, just to not get cooked from the heat creeping back through the compressor. And maybe not even having to turn the engine by hand to inspect the first compressor stage of the good ol' J79-MTU-17A. Yeah, good times xDD 2
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