Damaged engine management

[alphagamer1981]

I took a Mosquito over to do a bombing run, then decided to be a hero and take on 2 planes, shot them down but was rewarded with both engines getting damaged. I saw the 2nd was overheating first so i feathered it, opened the cowl flaps and ran one the left engine. Got halfway home and the first engine overheated and eventually cut out. Is there a way to cool the radiator down for the engines beside using the cowl flaps so that you can potentially get it going again and daisy chain the engines as one gets hot, it can be turned off and use the other and rinse repeat til you get home, or are they done?

[=MERCS=JenkemJunkie]

Running your engines at lower boost/RPM will generate less heat, and the faster you are the better airflow you get, so diving to increase your speed can give you some burst cooling if you have altitude, and you'll want to avoid climbing if possible because your speed will be lower during a climb vs a cruise or dive.

[alphagamer1981]

30 minutes ago, =MERCS=JenkemJunkie said:

Running your engines at lower boost/RPM will generate less heat, and the faster you are the better airflow you get, so diving to increase your speed can give you some burst cooling if you have altitude, and you'll want to avoid climbing if possible because your speed will be lower during a climb vs a cruise or dive.

 

Nice I will try that. I love coming back with a battered plane where extra management is needed to keep it in the sky. I feel the whole diving to cool the engines can only work for so long because as you said, climbing puts pressure on them and they only stay cool for so long, and eventually you will run out of altitude 

Edited April 15 by alphagamer1981

[MaxPower]

I think if the cooling system of an inline engine has lost pressure, it can't effectively cool anymore.  In this instance, the engines are on very short borrowed time.  It's not only that if the cooling system is punctured, you start to lose coolant.  I think you instantly lose coolant pressure, which would cause the coolant to rapidly boil off.  If the oil system is damaged, the will eventually seize but it seems to take longer.  Both types of damage results in the engine overheating, I think.  So, I guess it depends on what is damaged whether there is much engine management you can do.

In general, I think a lower throttle setting and having all cooling doors open probably helps increase the life of the engine but I'm not too sure.