Questions LA-5FN and YAK-1b and One Suggestion

[MaxTurn]

I have the premium editions of BOS, BOM, and BOK.  Should I be able to fly the LA-5FN?  I can assign it to allied flights but can't select it to fly.  Also, I am assuming the YAK-1b has to be purchased separately? 

 

I also have a suggestion.   Based on all the reading I have done about (esp. inline engine aircraft), once you started a coolant leak, you didn't fly for very long.  I find the very long (5 or 10 minutes maybe) that damaged aircraft fly streaming glycol or fuel to make the atmosphere of the game unrealistic.  Also, some aircraft fly around with black smoke streaming behind them.  109's especially seem to be able to fly, climb, and shoot me down even when smoking a lot.  Does anyone else find this distracting?  I am not a programmer (except with something like SAS) but I would like to see a feature added that when a plane is streaming smoke (or fuel) that it explodes after a random interval (based on the already existing damage model).    

[LukeFF]

2 minutes ago, MaxTurn said:

Should I be able to fly the LA-5FN?  I can assign it to allied flights but can't select it to fly.  Also, I am assuming the YAK-1b has to be purchased separately? 

 

Both are purchased separately.

[MaxTurn]

Thanks, I saw the Yak-1b for sale but didn't see the FN but will look again.

[MaxTurn]

I going to hijack my own thread and ask another question.  I have campaign options in BOK but no mission scenarios.  I don't mean quick missions but the BOS, BOM, Tank scenario folders.

 

I spent a lot of time with the original IL-2 buying all the versions and have being doing BOS for at least several months.  I actually started with ROF.  When my Crosswind pedals arrive in a week or so then I am going to do ROF some more. 

 

I also want to say thanks to the developers again and to the moderators of this forum.  It is good to see civil discourse on the internet. 

[Field-Ops]

I dont think any Kuban mission scenarios got made. Only Stalingrad and Moscow seem to have them so far. You can add your own community ones from the community missions sub-forum. 

 

Also I think the AI know how to manually tune their engine for longer life when they get oil leaks and such. Changing to a coarse pitch propeller and lowering manifold pressure can really increase the life of your damaged engine, it just shouldn't have very much combat capability.

 

A fuel leak or coolant leak is not immediately detrimental and would not be the cause of an explosion like you want. The only things that cause airplanes to explode are enemy fire directly impacting ammo storage or a fire cooking those munitions off, or a fire that just found a large amount of fuel fumes. Jet engines are a different story but we dont have one yet.

Edited May 5, 2018 by Field-Ops

[US63_SpadLivesMatter]

1 hour ago, Field-Ops said:

Also I think the AI know how to manually tune their engine for longer life when they get oil leaks and such. Changing to a coarse pitch propeller and lowering manifold pressure can really increase the life of your damaged engine, it just shouldn't have very much combat capability.

 

I did this with a 109 while I was trailing black smoke.  Made it around 50km back to base and landed it out; which for a black-smoking 109 seems pretty good!

[56RAF_Roblex]

I do it a lot too.  If my engine is damaged and I am no longer in combat I drop the RPM to 30-50% and throttle back as far as I can while still keeping level then crawl home.   You can go quite a long way.

[dburne]

Yep me too, have managed to make it safely to home field with damaged engine many times this way.