Blenheim take off

[Seeker]

Originally Posted by Anvilfolk

- Keep increasing RPM slowly, never allowing it to shake. If it's shaking, reduce throttle.
- At 180º engine temperature, set radiators full open, increase RPM to 2200
- At 190-200º release the brakes

It's supposed to be part of the experience in simulations. It was the best feeling when I finally managed to get it up. And again when I did my first bombing run. It does take dedication, calm and a certain type of personality. Coming on the forums and being insulting or aggressive isn't going to get you any sympathy...

Thanks, but...

Most of your post is on start up, and I can start the engines OK.
However, you mention temps over 100c, and your not the only one. Here's the thing: My temp gauges only go to 100. I've just started up the game to double check after reading your post, and my gauges definitely only go to 100 degrees.

I should point out that this is with an empty load out and on a concrete strip.

And again, what's getting my blood up is not that I'm doing it wrong, but that I can't find out from the game docs and feed back mechanisms what it is that's going wrong. Even putting it on auto pilot and sitting back to watch how the AI does it is not helping.

I'm glad you find this a pleasing simulation; however I'm not at the moment, and I do have rather a lot of experience in the genre. Of course that's no measure of either piloting skill nor tactical awareness, but it should indicate that I can read a manual and look around a cockpit. Nonetheless, I'm also very aware there's nothing so ridiculous as some one yelling that they're "gud at flight simz" and then falling off the end of the carrier, or what ever.

And Canuck can still bite me.

[JG53Frankyboy]

Originally Posted by Seeker

Thanks, but...

Most of your post is on start up, and I can start the engines OK.
However, you mention temps over 100c, and your not the only one. Here's the thing: My temp gauges only go to 100. I've just started up the game to double check after reading your post, and my gauges definitely only go to 100 degrees.

I should point out that this is with an empty load out and on a concrete strip.

And again, what's getting my blood up is not that I'm doing it wrong, but that I can't find out from the game docs and feed back mechanisms what it is that's going wrong. Even putting it on auto pilot and sitting back to watch how the AI does it is not helping.

I'm glad you find this a pleasing simulation; however I'm not at the moment, and I do have rather a lot of experience in the genre. Of course that's no measure of either piloting skill nor tactical awareness, but it should indicate that I can read a manual and look around a cockpit. Nonetheless, I'm also very aware there's nothing so ridiculous as some one yelling that they're "gud at flight simz" and then falling off the end of the carrier, or what ever.

And Canuck can still bite me.

you have to check the engine temperature gauges, look right behind you, over the fuel "wheels", there are these two little 'bastards' - so important and so shy
In front of you are "only" the oiltemperature gauges

[meplay]

Seeker have you also toggled carb heat?

[Anvilfolk]

Originally Posted by JG53Frankyboy

you have to check the engine temperature gauges, look right behind you, over the fuel "wheels", there are these two little 'bastards' - so important and so shy
In front of you are "only" the oiltemperature gauges

What he said! I completely forgot to mention it. That should do the trick. It's a bummer always having to look back. I tend to put the mouse near the the upper-right corner of the window so that when I look right, it'll fall on the temp gauges.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by Seeker

Never thought I'd say it, but a bunch of amateurs working free are producing better quality work than this.

Judging quality has nothing to do with how capable we are of flying CoD in full difficulty. Turn down a couple of difficulty settings if you have to, it's not a social stigma to fly on less than 100% difficulty you know.

I agree that documentation is lacking, but there's tons of posts on the Blenheim in here to get you started, plus various youtube videos: instead of reading the manual you use these sources, problem solved.

I roughly know what to do and still botch it from time to time, it's not supposed to be easy. You either make an effort to learn through trial and error (which will also help others because you'll probably discover something new that you can then pass on), or turn down your realism settings a bit and have fun until we come up with the correct procedure to get this bird in the air with some consistency of success.

There are a lot of choices, use them and have fun flying

[_79_Flames]

Hi Seeker, prob the most difficult plane out of the set for me but i got it in the air after a bit of practice.

All i do on start up is, heat the oil temp to 40% throttling up bit by bit as it gets warmer. Then drop throttle, open rads, open carb heat and then drop my prop pitch to 0 while i wait for the cylinder head temp to drop to just above 180. I put prop pitch back up then throttle up slowly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4MNDMwZJGw

~S~

[Anvilfolk]

Nice video!

I tend not to pay too much attention to oil temperatures. Do you just wait until 40 because by then engine temps are around 200? I'm going to get neck injuries by looking back towards the engine temp gauges all the time.


Also, I really liked that you set throttle to maximum and adjust prop pitch to keep to desired RPM. Does that give you more acceleration than fine prop pitch and adjusting throttle to lower?

I'd test it, but I have all graphical settings on low, and it gets really hard to tell exactly where you are without the runways and such (to see how long a takeoff run I did).

Oh, and did you use left and right wheel brakes to keep the nose pointed down the runway?

Thanks!

[_79_Flames]

Thanks Anvilfolk

It took me a long time to beable to take off smoothly in this bird, i thought that when Luthier said he would drown us in videos...i thought he meant tutorial vids like dcs did.

Everything ive picked up is from reading up on the forums here, mostly from Blackdog.kt (thanks Blackdog ~S~). I actually did not know about the CHT temps as the gauges are behind you, but i read you have to get oil temp to 40. So for the first few days all of my takeoff were hit and miss

The prop pitch thing is just habit, i can take off on full fine pitch also.

I think you can only use full brakes on the Blenheim, i set left rudder trim and just use my rudder full left as the speed starts to pick up, i tend to when first rolling to try and have it slightly going to the left on the runway so when the torque starts to pull it right you dont go to far to the right

~S~