So…i check wikipedia about the Spitfire and it is saying that it has a limitation of 40.000ft since it was made to also intercept high altitude bombers.
However,no matter what i do ( 26.000rpm ,supercharger at 8,fuel valve on,climb rate at 2) when it reaches 14.500 more or less,the engine starts to fail and there is no more climb for it.
I know that if you don’t do the above,it won’t even go above 12.000ft without a failure.
Various historical documentaries say that it has a climb rate of 60 minutes before the engine gets stressed.
Given my estimated altitude at 14.500 before fail,i think it took me about 10 minutes?
So…Am i doing something wrong ?
Is the model not accurate due to “X” limitations ?
Or the altimeter is not in feet but in metres and i was reading it all wrong from the start?
“Note that when climbing above 12’000ft, the fuel pressure c0ck must be switched ON. This pressurizes the fuel tank and prevents vaporization of the fuel at higher altitudes. Failure to do so will cause your engine to die at higher altitudes as it is starved of fuel.”
So that’s it then.
I will test it right away.
This week we had the Greek Spitfire in Greece which came from the UK restored and ready to fly while from now it stays in Greece.
I was having a blast through various scenarios and came across that ehem…problem.
Will report back.
Thank you very much
OMG !! I don’t even remember now if i closed it again just before the photo,just to see what happens.
I will try again.
But how can this thing go to 40.000ft when it barely reaches 14000 in so long?
When you do that and then resume there seems to be a bug whereby you loose engine power and in the case of the spit the red fuel pressure ■■■■ switches itself off.
This has just happened to me at almost 20,000ft. I went to main menu to enable Dev mode to switch liveries and on returning to the sim the engine was beginning to cut out because the fuel pressure was off.
Well…as it seems,the answer is simple. I AM AN @@ as it seems.
I was reading the fuel knob WRONG ! ALL ALONG !
It was off while i thought it was on
The plane climbs just fine now
Had the same issue with Miami a couple of nights ago. Spent an hour flying towards it to meet up with some fellow Heli flyers and as i got there the sim turned to a stuttering, low FPS hellhole.
not because of the word itself, more that you actually had to censor an aviation term.
