You can’t actually see the engine output, but I had ‘w’ pressed down the whole time. It’s around the time I was chasing a lightning and you can see my engine is off and speed is dropping rapidly. It is at around 3 minute 30.
Yeah, I saw that. I’m testing something rn to see if it is what I think it might be
Right, cause fuel stopped on 12:55 for my pov. This problem seem to be exclusively happening to F100 and no one else. I am currently trying to reproduce the same situation, high Gs but nothing seem to be happening.
Okay, so I just tried a test flight with the event f100 in the Chinese TT and with full afterburner on the fuel load runs out in about 4 minuets, about the same time your engine starts shutting down. After burner does shut off at about 3:30 in the replay, but I’m assuming that it might be chalked up to not being the exact same aircraft. How much fuel do you normally fly with? I know someone already asked that, but that is the only thing I could think of. You didn’t get hit and I don’t think high G loads affect aircraft like irl.
I brought 21 minutes of fuel cause in my first ten matches I brought lowest fuel and died like 6 times due to running out of fuel in a dog fight.
Hmm then I really don’t know what is happening. Try just going into a test flight with the same everything, and just kinda maneuver. Don’t go supersonic for long. Just kinda fly around. Keep speed around 500mph and only go supersonic for like 20 secs. Also at the start, start a stop watch on your phone and see how long it is before fuel runs out. The only other thing that might be the problem, is you overheated your engine
If that’s not it, then would you send of screenshot of your controls. Stuff like engine toggle, throttle and stuff like that.
Well the engine was not on after burner so the temperature should drop relatively fast. I have had a couple engine meltdowns but the engine was at 80 degrees. I have just tested, after 5 minutes of afterburner from takeoff, the fuel has not ran out and the temperature is roughly the same at around 80-81 degrees and as soon as I stopped afterburner it dropped to below 79.
Hmm ok.
Well like I said, send screenshots of your controls and maybe that will explain it. If not then I’d say go ahead and make a bug report
My controls are all default, like ‘i’ for engine switch off, W and S for output alongside mouse wheel. I have tried on the same map with custom battle, it takes 9 minutes 39 seconds for fuel to run out, and it takes 5:35 for engine to overheat.
Hmm ok. Well then I’d say go ahead and make a bug report if you’re sure you didn’t accidentally click “I”
Well I have tried in another instance, i does not actually work at this point after engine switchoff.
Okay. Then yeah just go make a bug report and see what they say
Well good luck with it!
One thing is that if you do actually run out of fuel you should get a message along the lines of “Engine died. No fuel” showing on the screen.
Another thing I noticed on a test flight is that when turning the engine off (so if it was accidentally done in battle), when I press the ignition key it takes like 10 seconds before the engine starts up again. During the 10 seconds there is no indication that the engine is restarting…kinda making it look like it’s not working. So make sure you just press it once and not repeatedly.
That is what I did, I pressed it, waited for the engine to restart for around 15 seconds and nothing happened. I was thinking about Gaijing possibly improve the indication for engine start ups.
My key bind is ‘I’ but I won’t even go to the top right of the keyboard so IDK why it would even be pressed accidentally. This has happened more than 5 times though so I suspect there is some problem with it.
Yeah sounds like a bug – just thought I’d mention a couple of things I don’t think were mentioned above.
Early on in my starting in Warthunder Air I also changed my Ignition from “I” to be Alt-I to avoid any accidental keypresses.
Cause I’m on MAC so it is a little bit more annoying. I have now changed my keybinds so let’s see if it happens again.
Hey I forgot to ask. You mentioned you ‘held w the whole time’… In case you’re not aware you can set this setting to No so you don’t have to hold W for WEP / afterburner.
In Controls, Movement.
(I find it much easier to set it to No as shown above.)
That is what I set it as. It does mean with some planes I will easily get it overheated but not F100.