How can I read oil temp gauge in BF109G2?

[III/JG2Gustav05]

Is there a knob I can control to shift the gauge between coolant temp and oil temp?

[LukeFF]

Nope

[III/JG2Gustav05]

Nope

Thank you for the answer. So how I am supposed to read the oil temperature?

[LukeFF]

Thank you for the answer. So how I am supposed to read the oil temperature?

 

You can't.

[Yogiflight]

Of cousre you can read the oiltemperature in F4 and G2. It is the lower scala in the remperature gauge. You have to look wfere the lower end of the pointer is, that is your oiltemperature.

[Matt]

No. The needle is in the position for showing cooling temperature. You would have to push a button to make it change position and show oil temperature. It can't show both temperatures at the same time.

[Yogiflight]

I don´t know how it was in reallity, but in the game it works, and I think this was the question.

[Matt]

No it does not work in game......

[Yogiflight]

It works very well. I just tried again to be really sure, and it worked. I certainly would never have noticed it by myself, but I read it in Chuck´s guide for BoS. The reason why you didn´t notice, might be because you fly with automatic radiator flaps, which zry to rule the temperature to 70 -80°. When you fly with manual radiator flaps you can open and close them as you need it, then it is easy to try the function of the oiltemperature gauge.

In reality, you are absolutely right. It is written at the gauge, that you have to press the button on the right top of the gauge for seeing the oiltemperature.

[Matt]

 

 

When you fly with manual radiator flaps you can open and close them as you need it, then it is easy to try the function of the oiltemperature gauge.

 

That's actually the perfect way to prove that it does not work ingame, because you can manually close or open the water radiators only and the oil cooler is always automatically controlled. 

 

So one needle can't possible show the temperature for both oil and coolant at the same time in the 109, neither in reality, nor in BoS.

[Yogiflight]

Try it!

[Guest deleted@50488]

Does it split ( the needle ) when you use the manual oil radiator mode Yog ?

 

Your point is a good one, but then we should be able to see the needle split between the temps of coolant ( exit ) and oil intake, right ?

 

At least in the E7, and upcoming F2 we do not have that problem ( if there's really a problem... ).

Edited November 18, 2015 by JCOMM

[Yogiflight]

Not the oilradiator, JCOMM, only the coolant radiator has a manual setting, oilradiator is as Matt mentioned allways automatically. The needle moves different on the upper and lower end, so you can see the coolant temperature on the upper side and the oiltemperature on the lower side. This, of cousre would not work in reality, there you had to push the button at the gauge, but I think it is a not to bad way to show both temperatures without needing an additional button. In my opinion it is better than the way it was solved with fuel gauges in 190 and 111, wfere the needle allways changes between the two tanks.

[Jizzo]

In the 190 the pilot acutally moves the switch to read both like it was in real.

[Guest deleted@50488]

Not the oilradiator, JCOMM, only the coolant radiator has a manual setting, oilradiator is as Matt mentioned allways automatically. The needle moves different on the upper and lower end, so you can see the coolant temperature on the upper side and the oiltemperature on the lower side. This, of cousre would not work in reality, there you had to push the button at the gauge, but I think it is a not to bad way to show both temperatures without needing an additional button. In my opinion it is better than the way it was solved with fuel gauges in 190 and 111, wfere the needle allways changes between the two tanks.

 

Ah! Ok!   Nice find Yog!

 

Perfectly acceptable for me that way of modeling it.  Thx!

[LukeFF]

The needle moves different on the upper and lower end, so you can see the coolant temperature on the upper side and the oiltemperature on the lower side.

What you are seeing is the two different scales for oil & water temperature. It isn't displaying both temps at the same time.

 

In the 190 the pilot acutally moves the switch to read both like it was in real.

He's checking the fuel gauge. The 190 doesn't have a water temperature gauge. Edited November 18, 2015 by LukeFF

[Guest deleted@50488]

Yep, tested it last night and the needle doesn't split - its a single needle, and so, no two temps are being displayed, unless just by chance they match the values on both scales :-)

 

Maybe in the future we can get two needles, or a button to switch between them like we have in the Fw190 to switch between fuel tanks in the fuel gauge.

[III/JG2Gustav05]

You can't.

Ok, Thank you again for the confirmation, so this  game does not implement the full feature of this gauge.

[indiaciki]

Interesting thing is that my E-7 automaticallly contolls water temp / radiator...?

[LukeFF]

Interesting thing is that my E-7 automaticallly contolls water temp / radiator...?

 

Only if you're playing in Normal difficulty mode.

[Guest deleted@50488]

I posted a request at the Suggestions forum : http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/19407-oil-and-coolant-gauge-bf109-f4-and-g2/

[indiaciki]

Only if you're playing in Normal difficulty mode.

Expert only. It show water radiator in percent about 90 - 94. Never flew her in normal mode. Maybe it indicates something. Like engine. Combat mode, continous etc without regulating the radiator. Showing status??? I don't know.

[AstrixAU]

I noticed the F4 one moves but the G2 is always stationary. Though it seems impossible to overheat the G2 unlike the F4. I'll have to check to see if there is a button to switch between the two in the G2.

[LukeFF]

I noticed the F4 one moves but the G2 is always stationary. Though it seems impossible to overheat the G2 unlike the F4. I'll have to check to see if there is a button to switch between the two in the G2.

 

Neither gauge in either plane shows oil temperature, and there is no button to switch between them, either.