crashbar, from your last post, I must admit that I'm having problems catching your attitude and you, obviously, couldn't catch mine (including the humor).
That's not a big problem though, but I really suggest to post B-52 "problems" in the corresponding section of the forums, take the C-130 ones to the right place too. Thanks.
Yes, the engine failure when using the sim menus to "refuel"
inflight can be odd, no doubt there. But this isn't the way the thing is supposed to be used, so lets concentrate on a working dump function (the current one proved to be buggy, as you saw, so it went on the bug list) and leave out all the more or less "interesting" explanations why it is so logical to menu-refuel when actually flying.
Nice stories about bombing runs though.
The game you are talking about is actually a simulator, so the arcade style might lack a bit of depth while the simulation therefore seems better, even on the "Fun" products. It stills stays a game of course.
Don't worry, I don't call my girlfriend flight attendant or have installed seatbelts on my chair, but I'm aware that some things got modelled by e. g. Captain Sim, so one should be aware of using them in the intended way. Remember? Simulator. People actually pay for the things to be somehow close to real (in the limitations of a PC sim).
Otherwise, that unlimited fuel option still stays a tip and gives you some very long bombing runs while filling your plane with only some fuel (before engine start!), which does actually get consumed, but won't influence your running engines. So dry tanks don't happen anymore.
Isn't that a neat thing on a sim?
So it is completely up to you, to decide about whether to be angry about the fuel management and the sim aspect of the planes, or to realize that either the manuals and some planning (or that mentioned FSX option) are the only two things to help you out of this. Rants of some kind usually don't work out well or constructive.
I think that CS will surely look into the fuel dump operation since this is an aspect a simulated bird should offer in the right way, no question. I also think that a fix for that fuel menu isn't a big deal for them, so maybe this "bug" gets addressed too.
But hey, reading some (included) docs in the meantime can't be a bad idea, don't you think?
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