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Originally Posted by klem
Good idea BD and we need something like that but why would a veteran's engine warm up faster than a rookies? Does he carry a blow torch?
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Not really, he can just do an accelerated warm up without breaking the engine
If you notice, i also gave them some "wiggle room" in the amount of time needed but once again, more experienced AI would be more consistent to reflect the fact that an experienced pilot could get to the engine's limits of what was possible within realistic terms.
So, if the default warm up time for a particular aircraft with a rookie AI behind the controls was 2 minutes, there would be smarter rookie AI pilots getting it done in 1min 30seconds and there would be worse rookie AI pilots getting it done in 2 min 30 seconds.
They wouldn't actually be smarter, they would just appear that way using that little trick with the randomized percentages, so this can give some realistic randomness and non-uniformity without once again costing CPU cycles
In a similar fashion, if an ace AI pilot would have a default warm-up time of 30 seconds, the "smarter" ones would do it in 20 seconds and the "dumber" ones in 40 seconds: they are ace pilots after all so they shouldn't be too late even if they are having a bad day, but they wouldn't be able to exceed what the engine was capable of either, so they get a smaller "range of randomness" than the lower level AI.
As for how to do an accelerated warm-up, it's pretty simple especially on fuel injected aircraft like the 109. I've managed to get it up and running within seconds and take off right after the AI leaders (CEM and temp effects enabled in the realism settings).
You just turn the engine on, hold the brakes, close the rads and advance the throttle until the engine starts "complaining" (the shaking effect), then back off a little. Once you see the temps rise a bit advance throttle a bit more until you get shaking again and back off a bit once more.
As long as you keep an eye on your temp gauges and oil pressure, you can warm-up the engine really fast without causing damage. If temps start getting too high just open the rads and pull the throttle back a bit, if oil pressure is rising too much just back off on the throttle a bit. Before long you'll be at the proper operating temperatures, so you can now open the rads fully, release brakes, go throttle wide open and take off.
I also do this in the Blenheim because it takes ages for the radials to warm up if they are simply left idling, but it takes a lot more care and attention to prevent breaking anything.