I know the devs are russians and hate allies but still: Huricanes are incredibly broken in this game!!!
Don’t fly at all, engine overheated all the time, funny armament useless against all targets, they don’t climb, turn etc.
Next rage bait?
- A good flown Hurricane outturns a Spitfire
- U need MEC to manage your engine temp
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Never judge a plane by his stock performance.
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anton yudinstev’s favorite plane is a spitfire
The 2.0 one is insane when in 1.0-2.0 matches but we have p39 at 2.7…
BR system lol
You need to understand that aircraft, especially early war aircraft, are not designed to be flown at Millitary Power for long stretches of time.
Combat power in the Hurricane based on specifications I can find comes out at:
Max Cruising power (unlimited time): 2650 RPM, boost +7 lbs
Climb power (up to 1 hour): 2850 RPM, boost +9 lbs
Combat power (up to 5 minutes): 3000 RPM, boost +12/+14 lbs (low gear/hi gear)
I wonder why it’s overheating in air RB where you push throttle to 100% (equivalent of combat power) with AEC that optimizes your RPM for performance.
How to avoid overheating: Use MEC or throttle back.
Then use MEC + instrument read-outs to set your engine to climb power rather than combat power (reduce prop pitch% until RPM reads 2850). Most planes if you reduce prop pitch to ~88-92% only lose marginal horse power (until you’re in a critical situation where you slam it back to 100%) but are able to run combat or emergency power near indefinitely (at least 10-15 minutes for a RB match for sure).
Why do soviet planes NOT overheat at 100%? (some do in fact.)
Because soviets designed their planes (yaks at least) to be flown by desperate airmen who don’t have time to fully understand their aircraft and so they set their max throttle and max engine RPM to a level where it won’t kill the plane. This means the theoretical max performance of these planes, with proper fuel and parts would go above and beyond what the throttle and RPM control permits.
Americans and brits gave pilots the options to abuse their planes if so desired.
In fact, as better fuel was developed that was resistant to knocking, the maximum RPM & manifold pressure the engine could sustain without issues kept going up and up (p-51-D30 is an example of such a significant rise)
Germans too allowed pilots to abuse their planes. They even automated it to reduce pilot workload. Altho with the bf109 G2 they removed the ability to go to emergency power which they reintroduced with G4.
Idk about japanese design philosophies. There’s not a lot of manuals available.