Engine timer recovery - inconsistencies

[FTC_Davies]

The test:
Run full power Emergency Power until the HUD indicates that all Emergency Power is used. Then I throttle back to Combat power and note the time it takes for Combat Power to run out.

I have tested the following planes:
P-47D-22
P-47D-28
P-51B-5
P-51D-15
P-38J
P-40 (with 1942 engine mod)
P-39

With the exception of the P-39, all these planes have 5 min of Emerg. Power and 15 min of Combat power. For all of them, if I run 5 min of E-power and throttle back, I will only get ~5 min of Combat power. Therefore, emergency power "eats" of the combat power.

If I do it reverse, so Combat power for 15 min until it runs out and then go into E-power, I am able to remain in E-power for the specified 5 min.

P-39 does the same but at a lower factor. So 2 min of E-power -> ~2,5 min of Combat left.

The main issue with this is if the pilot runs ~5-7 min of Combat-Power, throttles up to E-Power and then after 5 min back again to C-power, he will blow his engine within a very short time span.

If we compare this to RAF or LW fighters such as the Spitfire Mk.IXe/BF-109 G-14, we can se that both of these planes can run E-power for 5/10 min and then recover their E-power in Combat-power after ~10 min.

I would advocate for the timers to be working the same across all planes, not that they all have same timers but that the recovery and consumption works the same.

[=MERCS=JenkemJunkie]

Using WEP in the Spit IX (and almost every other plane) will still drain your combat timer, the spit just has a much longer combat timer than the American planes, so you still have some in reserve while you were recharging your WEP. The only exception I know of is the MW-50 109's where you will actually recharge your combat timer while using WEP for whatever reason. 

I think it would be a good change if WEP didn't burn or recharge the combat timer at all under any circumstance, it just ends in so many messes I don't feel like ranting about right now.

[FeuerFliegen]

15 hours ago, =MERCS=JenkemJunkie said:

Using WEP in the Spit IX (and almost every other plane) will still drain your combat timer, the spit just has a much longer combat timer than the American planes, so you still have some in reserve while you were recharging your WEP. The only exception I know of is the MW-50 109's where you will actually recharge your combat timer while using WEP for whatever reason. 

I think it would be a good change if WEP didn't burn or recharge the combat timer at all under any circumstance, it just ends in so many messes I don't feel like ranting about right now.

 

Yep, Tempest is the same way.  I assume Typhoon is the same (no reason it wouldn't be).

 

I did 5 minutes E Power,

10 minutes combat (enough to fully recharge E power)

5 minutes E power,

10 minutes combat, 

5 minutes E power, and once that was used up (total 35 minutes in), combat power was also fully used up..

 

So I assume that every 1 minute of maximum power, uses at least 2 minutes 40 seconds of combat power

[=MERCS=JenkemJunkie]

Yeah, and just to add more fun the WEP of different engine/octane mods on the same plane will eat combat at different rates too.

[the_emperor]

and on some planes you can increase your WEP MAP time by reducing rpms and on some you cant (eg Spitfire and Mustang though its the same engine). 

even though manuals strictly forbidd the reducing of rpms at high/WEP MAP....its a mess and an arcade game mechanic, which is in dire needs of a proper engine simulation.