When the engine is hit

[Olham 164]

Just had a good dogfight with a Sopwith Strutter, which I finally shot down;
but the gunner also wounded me and damaged my engine.

When I heard irritating new sounds, I immediately reduced throttle by half.
I dived away, and then checked my health status: 77%.
F5 info also showed the engine status - still 100%.
So - where the noises I believed to hear, not so bad?

I pushed throttle forward - only to see a rapidly decreasing engine health value!
Quickly I reduced throttle again - and the decrease stopped. The value staiblised
at 67% engine health.

I almost reached my homefield with that, but the craft slowly went lower and lower,
and when a treeline had to overcome, I gave some more throttle.
With the consequence, that the engine now quickly died.
I could just put my craft down next to a road.

Thank you, Robert, for your idea to land next to roads in such cases - it saved my pilot!
In that thick snow and rain drizzle I wouldn't have seen any fences.

Thanks also to Creaghorn - your sounds are very good and they tell something about
how the engine "feels" - if one only listens!

 

 

 

 

[Baldric 42]

I would have hit a fence landing in that soup.  A clanking engine gets a shut down from me out of fear of fire and I'll try to glide towards a road , trail, or cleared bit if I can.  The one sound that gives me shivers is the tearing/ripping canvas (even the creaking canvas) and then I wait for a wing to fall off.  I recall flying the Nieuport 17 model in another WWI sim where in the early stages of that models existence ingame the wing would just come off at the same time as you heard the sound of ripping fabric (long since fixed)...no warning LOL.  Mon Dieu!!

 

Kind regards,

Dave