Lester: Albatros D.III

[jwocky]

After a long frustrating attempt to find a bug in the Ju-87, I packed out the Albatros. Now, the Albatros should have a range of 261 nm according to Wiki, but she had only about 140. So ...

1.) Yasim smuggles you the regular behavior with mixture and propeller-pitch in, even a WWI airplane hadn't neither one nor the other. So, Yasim was flying her all the time on 100% mixture plus take off power plus the usual Yasim mistake in calculating the fuel consumption too high. For now, I see there only the option to fly her "Yasim", means with mixture and pitch.

2.) You calculated obviously liters in pounds 1:1, but it is, calculated for regular AV gas 1:1.58, Means, the tank is too small. Even if I canculate only the 120 liters from an original gas gauge, it's almost 190lbs.

put both together and there are the 261nm plus VAT.

regards
JWocky

[LesterBoffo]

Sorry JWacky. I know it needs fixing. The Mercedes had a altitude compensating mixture and throttle that limited the engine power to about 85~90% below 5000' atmospheric altitude. You still need to compensate for altitude with YAsim. You could try flying it like they had that limiter in working order, there was a 'gate' lever for the limiter that allowed you to bypass it at the expense of damaging the engine below 5000' . At the time I made it I had no fuel measurement I could find online that agreed with the fuel capacity used for Over Flander's Fields D.III, so I used it as a best guess.

BTW Military Warehouse is claiming a range of about 217nm.

[jwocky]

Hey, the tank size was a mystery till I found a picture of an original DIII fuel gauge on Ebay ... one never knows. And I did the mixture and prop pitch thing a little unrealistically with shift-m and shift-n and I had a great Tour leg with the kite. Couldn't resit of course to land her on grass
So, bottom line, she is not perfect, but we all love her!

[LesterBoffo]

Interesting that the prop pitch works, it's supposed to be fixed pitch, you can lean the mixture after reducing to cruise power and you'll get even better economy.

Did I upload to you the new D.III with the four new liveries?

...and here's a new plane..

[IAHM-COL]

hi lester
no the new version is not uploaded.