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Float Carburetor effects?

4,884 Mikey101234  4.4 years ago

Is there anyway where you can have an engine cut out when you do a roll or go upside down the same way how real life planes like the spitfires did?

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    16.5k edensk

    @ChiChiWerx Yeah, I was doubting about that, for some reason I thought negative Gs weren't pulled while inverted, thanks for the correction!

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    30.3k ChiChiWerx

    @edensk The float type carburetors (such as the one which equipped early Spitfires) cut out when pulling negative Gs...which you can do regardless of bank angle. Bank angle has nothing to do with negative G and everything to do with whether or not you push forward on the stick. If you’re on PC, you can open the Dev console by hitting “ ‘ “ key, then type in “DebugExpression VerticalG”. You’ll see the real time G loading displayed in the upper left corner of the screen. I can easily pull a loop while maintaining 4 Gs, very much like you would fly if you were actually in a Spit and the engine would never, ever sputter. However, if I’m flying along straight and wings level at 1 G, then push forward to 0 G, yup, the engine would sputter. Try the following FT formula “input = Throttle * clamp01(ceil(VerticalG)”. When the G reaches zero, the value returned will be zero, i.e., no thrust.

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    4,884 Mikey101234

    Never mind I fixed it, I removed “Reply” and the period and the space a mr the end

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    4,884 Mikey101234

    When I put it in as an input for throttle, it didn’t work, is it for pitch?@edensk

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