31.01.2009, 03:42
Ive got more time in the P-80 than any other plane in the many yrs I've flown this sim, mainly since I have been working on my Redstar/Whitestar 1947 cmpn for 19 mos. I've learned that the above it correct, but I've also gotten into hard turning fights with other jets and managed to keep the engine going. I try to keep it between 88 and 95% when I need speed. 95% will overheat much quicker than 93%, but it really depends on your speed. Keep speed up and you can maintain around 93% for long periods.
If you start to overheat, you can put the nose down to get speed and it will cool it, and you can back off just a bit on the throttle if it doesn't cool very quickly.
I take off at no more than 88% and back off to 85 until I get some speed up, unless it's a scramble misn, and then I get speed up before I start climbing.
You can also do air starts but you need to run up the throttle to near 100% before you start and then back down.
Just don't advance or retard the throttle very quickly.
It's my favorite ride in the sim, but it requires a bit of flying to get used to it.
Hopefully I will release the beta of my cmpn in a few weeks. Jets are a real blast if you learn them.
For what it's worth, this is a thread on my cmpn at the zoo. A couple of hte misns I illustrate are in a Corsair, but most are in the P-80. There's a fair number of human flown birds in close in dogfights. It can do it.
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/ ... 8791000676
If you start to overheat, you can put the nose down to get speed and it will cool it, and you can back off just a bit on the throttle if it doesn't cool very quickly.
I take off at no more than 88% and back off to 85 until I get some speed up, unless it's a scramble misn, and then I get speed up before I start climbing.
You can also do air starts but you need to run up the throttle to near 100% before you start and then back down.
Just don't advance or retard the throttle very quickly.
It's my favorite ride in the sim, but it requires a bit of flying to get used to it.
Hopefully I will release the beta of my cmpn in a few weeks. Jets are a real blast if you learn them.
For what it's worth, this is a thread on my cmpn at the zoo. A couple of hte misns I illustrate are in a Corsair, but most are in the P-80. There's a fair number of human flown birds in close in dogfights. It can do it.
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/ ... 8791000676