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Gas guzzling son of a petrol businessman.

227k jamesPLANESii  5.2 years ago

Hey peeps.

Do you wanna know how long it takes the SP radial engine to empty 1 gallon of fuel? Equivelant to 4 litres?
3 minutes?
1 minute?
30 seconds?

No. 12 f*** seconds. I mean, I can’t even empty a milk bottle that fast!!!! I don’t even think a Trent 1000 empties fuel that fast! That’s fricken 1800 litres an hour!

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At that rate, a DC-3 with full 804 gallon tanks and two of these engines wouldn’t even be able to fly for 15 minutes.

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Seriously though this is complete stupidity and it needs fixing in 1.8. It won’t affect anything. In fact, it will fix everything.

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    Piston engines are wobbly, bulky, and unreliable. @randomusername

    5.2 years ago
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    10.9k Rub3n213

    What’s with you and ‘electric’ engines lol @randomusername

    5.2 years ago
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    69.2k Chancey21

    Something with input drag and engine power but I wouldn’t recommend it for a r eplica @jamesPLANESii

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    3,731 stig27

    @Chancey21 what is the XML property?

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    35.7k ThePilotDude

    Maybe because the map is so small?

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    Ye @SAC923

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    How? @Chancey21

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    Fixed the spelling error @WNP78 @aplayer @F104Deathtrap

    5.2 years ago
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    16.4k ThePrototype

    No wonder my plane with 400 gallons of fuel has the endurance of the Me-163.....

    +1 5.2 years ago
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    1,166 RedBeast23

    Wow dude. You’ve improved since I was last here, almost platinum and been here for almost 4 years, that is just amazing

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    I have doom some test myself and I have all the results on my notes, I can look at it but I know the first basic prop takes 2 minutes per gallon

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    69.2k Chancey21

    You can edit the fuel consumption...

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    Ummm... that is ridiculous, but if it gets fixed, then all the existing planes on the site will have to be updated for the appropriate fuel.

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    19.6k WaffleCakes

    Nooooooooo don’t fix this all the people who work for the gasoline companies will starve... SimplePlanes is 99.6452 percent of the world gas consumption noooooo

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    @jamesPLANESii Depends on the settings, right? What HP/throttle are you using for this calculation? A Wright Cyclone (1,000hp) cruises on .43lb/hp/hr. Perhaps compare the two? I have no idea what an appropriate throttle setting is for a turbosupercharged engine from the 1930's.

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    @aplayer Gallium is a metal.

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    1,094 aplayer

    Eyyy what is gallium?

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    Dev WNP78

    1 gallium of fuel...

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    Oof

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    6,169 Spectre2520

    Oof (O_o) @jamesPLANESii

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    @AndrewGarrison

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