Water-oil cooling function?

[Leon_Portier]

Hello,

 

may I ask what the water colling-/oil cooling/ cowl shutters exactly cool?

If one flys the Rata(I16) the cowl shutters influence the oil temperature greatly.

But on the IL2 the water cooler seems to be seperate from the oil one.

If the water cooler is damaged, can the oil one pick up his function and vice versa?

 

Thank you

[SYN_Mike77]

This may be down to the real life difference between radial and in-line engines.  But no, on the IL-2 the oil radiator can only cool oil, and the water radiator can only cool water.  Damage either one and you might want to start thinking about heading for friendly territory and mentally reviewing the bail out sequence!

[GridiroN]

It depends how the plane is designed. Some planes use individual radiators where as some planes have a unified radiator that they mount in a cowl. The pilot controls the cowl to cool both at the same time. 

 

The oil is the lubrication for the engine. The water cools the engine. Hot oil means it'll burn off and increase friction. No water means the engine block will heat until failure. Some engines care more about one than the other. The DB60x (BF109) will fall out of the sky in no time without water. The Klimov 105 (most russian planes) doesn't really give a f*** about not having oil. 

[Leon_Portier]

Thanks! Both of you are very helpful!

[MrNoice]

It depends how the plane is designed. Some planes use individual radiators where as some planes have a unified radiator that they mount in a cowl. The pilot controls the cowl to cool both at the same time.

 

The oil is the lubrication for the engine. The water cools the engine. Hot oil means it'll burn off and increase friction. No water means the engine block will heat until failure. Some engines care more about one than the other. The DB60x (BF109) will fall out of the sky in no time without water. The Klimov 105 (most russian planes) doesn't really give a f*** about not having oil.

 

yeah ingame but I dont think that any ww2 engine can work without oil... [edited]

 

Not here...

Edited October 16, 2017 by SYN_Haashashin

[LukeFF]

yeah ingame but I dont think that any ww2 engine can work without oil... [edited]

 

All inline engines are modeled with the about the same durability, so once again..[edited].

 

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