Overcooled engines

[Pharoah]

Playing on TAW last week (winter map where the outside temp was -26 deg C and looked friggin cold), I got the 'overcooled engines' warnings on startup. Made sense as its -26. 

 

Map changes to a summer setting where its +26 deg C and I STILL get the overcooled engines warnings on startup. The guys in chat all agreed that your engines would be cold hence the warnings but I don't believe it. 26 deg C - ain't no way thats an overcooled engine. Thats basically room temperature. 

 

So, is that a bug or do I have it wrong? At what temp ingame does an engine become overcooled?

[Field-Ops]

The thing is... room temperature is overcooled for an aircraft engine. And each aircraft varies for its permissible temperatures.

[Art-J]

On the other hand 20-few doesn't quite seem to be treated by the game physics as something really dangerous for the engine. I play this sim with pre-heated option off and yet, even if I takeoff immediately after startup just to see what happens without proper warmup, the result is... well nothing wrong happens, the engine's fine. That's on spring-summer maps, though!

 

[Herne]

24 minutes ago, Art-J said:

On the other hand 20-few doesn't quite seem to be treated by the game physics as something really dangerous for the engine. I play this sim with pre-heated option off and yet, even if I takeoff immediately after startup just to see what happens without proper warmup, the result is... well nothing wrong happens, the engine's fine. That's on spring-summer maps, though!

 

 

I think there is a random chance of failure for an overcooled engine. From what I gather if you take off within max continuous settings you don't have much to worry about. If you push combat or emergency power for take off on an engine that's not reached operational temps, then you play the lottery, for potential engine damage.