The Fw 190 F-8 engine self destruct even at low throttle.
Some on Steam dicussions said that another player said that it should happen like it did in real life (apparently). If this is the case, a lot of vehicles should behave accordingly and have their engines and transmissions to brake on their own as well, otherwise, they’re ruining that airplane on purpose.
This shouldn’t be a problem if it weren’t because you barely can reach the main dogfight area before getting your engine destroyed in less than a minute, making it completely useless.
The reason “it’s realistic” is not a valid aswer, because of what I already said. So tell me: why?
Guess hes talking about it overheating and damaging his engine?
Only thing it can be since nothing “self-destructs.”
This artificial nerf was discussed here:
You will find also an official statement at the end.
Bottom line: Usual practice by gaijin - to weaken non-USSR hardware wherever they can…
This is technically seen not correct.
They nerfed the thermodynamics of the 190 A/F engines so that after a certain time you can’t even use military power (= 100%) without killling the engine due to overheating.
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This is how it burns
Realize engine starts burning->lower throttle to cool it down->realize I should stay max thrust because 0% is clearly still burning the engine
Btw this is 190a1, I believe all 190a series suffer from this bs.
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You need to delay the point in time when the trigger temperatures for white, yellow, orange and red gets lower. In other words: Less WEP and more cooling periods.
If you engine has reached a flashing red at 83° Celsius you reacted too late . Throttling to 0% power seems counter productive as you need engine power to power the cooling fan behind the prop.
Turning off the engine completely (after feathering the prop) for 30 seconds should reset this overheating - at least until you land & repair.
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Was the engine in full auto control?
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Well this is ridiculous. Is there any document indicates that FW 190As overheats like this? Need to sacrifice an engine for 5 minutes of wep?
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your engines cooling system cant handle 100% throttle for prolonged periods of time similar to an early merlin engine in the mk1&2 spitfires.
use less throttle for cruising and reserve higher throttle for when its actually needed
Check the linked thread in this post.
It boils down that if you google long enough you find (often translated) flight manuals which instructs the pilot to use WEP (=War Emergency Power) just for a few minutes followed by a cooling off period.
Like here for an A-3:
https://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/fw190/bmw801-handbook-pg15.jpg
The main problem is that gaijin is unable or unwilling to even think about that they are making a fool out of themselves.
Why? They don’t even try to justify their totally unjustified nerf.
Why unjustified? Quite easy - they nerfed the 190 F-8 with the time limitations for WEP usage of BMW 801 D engines (= 3 minutes) despite their implemented engines in the A-8 and F-8 are 801 TU engines - rated for 10 minutes full WEP with 1.65 ata (boost pressure with 2.700 rpm).
All they had to do was to invest 5-20$ for a flight manual of a (late) 190 F-8 with the 801 TU engine. But they decided to to process a bug report based on feelings…
I saw your reply in a previous thread:
FW-190 Nerfed Based on One Player’s Words – Where’s the Quality Control? - #40
You might want to have a closer look on this (again) - from my pov the gaijin devs looked at the wrong manuals…
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