Did gaijin “fiddle” with this flight model again? When did it start overheating at prop100?
No overheating with open rads, even hot maps, 80% rads is enough and above 5.000m i can almost close them.
You say, use ONLY lift…well, but I am using mouse when i finaly aming on target, aiming due to plane control is much more harder than in 109.
Only does that with WEP, but as far as I know it’s always been like that.
Because you’re way above your critical altitude and not getting full manifold pressure. Anywhere I marked with 90% PP on my graph, you’ll overheat doing that unless you get off WEP, regardless of how much you open your radiators.
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Yes, you’re right. But on the initial climb the Ki-44 will quickly overcome those altitude ranges, and once you’re at 5,000m the engine will cool itself, which is helped by turning off the WEP. Anyway, I use lowering the prop pitch as another option to cool the engine. But in most cases I can just turn off the WEP in peace.
There is a lot to keep an eye on in terms of altitude and so on, of course if one puts in the work and changes the settings as your chart shows, I believe full performance will be achieved.
I think the stuff about radiators, prop pitch and supercharge is cleared up.
What’s bugging me now is the high speed control, and I don’t think it’s even at full high speed sometimes, just weird handling at times. On the War Thunder wiki it says something about Ki-44 instructor problems, instability of rudders and ailerons, maybe that’s it.
What is your experience with plane control and handling of Ki-44? With rudder for example?
Setting the prop pitch to 98% can solve most overheating issues you will encounter at 100%. If your engine is still too hot you can open the radiators even more or lower the PP to something ~90%.
True, but I don’t find myself at or above 5km for very long. Usually I start a dogfight there and amidst all the maneuvers I’ll drop down back into 90% PP zone.
The Ki-44 has some interesting handling that’s for sure, though I don’t think its just rudder. Unlike a 109 or other aircraft, the intructor flies the Ki-44 much closer to its aerodynamic limit in hard turns, and apparently can’t fully compensate for that instability, which is very noticeable when you try to do a snap roll at low-ish speeds.
Rudder alone is more of an issue while trying to pull lead on someone, and it feels a lot like the Ki-43-II and -III in that it doesn’t use quite enough of it.