Gas Guzzler

Ghostrider,
I'd get on your crew chief and tell him to tighten up those young PVTs working on the engines and re-fueling your birds!!!!!

Either the mechanics are customizing those engines to fly faster at low altitiude, or the refueling crew is blackmarketing the extra fuel that they aren't putting in your tanks!:kilroy:
 
Haha - yeah DD - I'm not having any luck tweaking the .air file either. I've got all of the parameters set right, to the extent of my knowledge (about 20 pages printed off off Google of specs on the B-29 and the Wright R3350 engine) all looks well , but still running out of gas at about 900 miles - it takes 20% of my fuel just to get to altitude - then even at 30K feet, leaned almost to cutoff at 220 knots IAS, it's like gunning the throttle in an old muscle car - you can see the needle on the fuel gauge dropping! What's got me worried, is I can put in eight times the fuel the B-29 carried, reduce the fuel weight accordingly, and I still run out of fuel at the same place. Makes me wonder if it's a limitation of the program. I hate it when the B24 guy is right! (Just kidding, B24 guy!) I just want to make sure I've thoroughly explored the situation. Why? Because I like to fly on max realism, as do a lot of folks, and I think it would be cool to have to make decisions about diverting to land at Iwo if you lose fuel from battle damage, or if the jet stream makes you burn too much fuel on the way to target, etc. Anyway, I just hate use unlimited fuel unless there's no other choice.
 
Ghostrider,

I know how you feel. My wife is the same way. :icon_lol:
I think that the sim uses fuel weight not amount. That is why you can put in more fuel reduce the weight and run out at the same place.

Regards,
B24Guy
 
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