New here and I’m trying to figure out flight controls and flight mechanics.
The other day after about 10 minutes of flight my engine lost most power and I slowly drifted to the ground till I crashed. I had received some damage from ground fire.
I know I’m other flight sims if you run at WEP for too long your engine overheats and goes kaput. Is that a thing in Enlisted?
Yes, altho it isnt displayed in game, running on or above 100% deteriorates the engine, and it becomes a lot less responsive over time. It is recommended to only use that throttle when it is most needed to get a long life from your vehicle.
Gives a good laugh to all kamikaze pilots out there. 
I play on console and throttle shares my left stick(Left stick Left/Right). Left stick also controls free look(LB + Left Stick). So accidental throttling up/down is a constant battle.
For whatever reason button combos(LB + Left Stick) don’t override/deactivate the default mapped function of sticks on Xbox. Why??? Isn’t that the purpose of button combos? To override the default function or both buttons to make a 3rd action occur?
Yes is the turbo kill your engine use it for hard maneuvers
Can anyone explain what is WEP, and from where it comes, like battery of plane or what ?
Thanks for copy pasting from wikipidea
Read?
So what’s difference for Combat flaps and Flaps UP in game?
I’m used to flaps on other flight sims, just what does combat flaps do on Enlisted?
You have
up flap: normal cruise
Combat flap: plane vs plane (more plane agility)
Landig/take off flap: for land/take off on an airfield (no airfield currently)
i would say no but im not sure about that. Ive ran an full game of 30 min with full wep almost all the time and nothing happened. Think that one is a bugg or its not registering if youre hurt in some areas.
Something i do know is konsistent though is that when youre oil meter is full which indicates its overheated you will not have long flying time to go. Mostly one run or two before you start to sink so keep an eye on that one. You can cool it down by going down to 0 but usually that indication means that your engine is not working anyways as it should and its no need to struggle.
If you dont know how to check it, hold c to look around at your instrument panel
German planes it usually are at the down right side covered in brown color, their attacker its blue and straight down right irrc. The allies i have no clue
If you hit the upper thick line you can try to cool it and sometimes it works but try the engine out first and catch height or else you might hurt yourself when slowing down in the process if the engine fails to work and you cant pull your parachute in time
Yeah, WEP/110% throttle overheat isn’t functional like it is in WT, I’ve never had a situation where the engine dies out because of overused WEP. I even tested it the other week in the practice range, left it at WEP for like 20 minutes and was still gaining altitude without any speed loss. More than likely that mechanic in war thunder was excluded from enlisted, or it’s been bugged for over a year.
They represent the notches of flaps
Thanks for all the info guys. Cheers!
when i was going for high altitude runs over 10000 meters in this game, for science ofc, i was always 110 throtle with full payload, for over 30 minutes, and didnt for once my plane stall.
neither on test grounds, neither in a batle.
the 110wep overheating might be a myth afterall.
it will only loose power/stall @ 110, or what ever throtle power, if, the angle of climb is superior to certain speed over distance.
this bn said. when i fly my planes, ingame, on early days i did notice lack of power over few mins of normal flying at 110%. i dont notice this for months now and i m always at 110%.
take this with a grain of salt… mileage may vary.
Tldr: isn’t overheating, it’s simply lack of speed for the angle of climb. On early day planes would loose power even on a straight line. I don’t notice this for months.
Ps: if you see yourself playing Alot with the same model of the plane, jump into a practice run, and memorize the speed at any angle the plane will loose power. Then wep at a low meter climb forever, the plane won’t stall or overheat once.
I was at a point I was 40 000 meteres from the resupply center on a single climb 110 throtle for 30 minutes and the plane didn’t overheated or lost power once.
Overehating happens - happened to me last week when I was a bit careless.
Nothing to do with climb angle - if you haven’t experienced it then you don’t know about it -fair enough - wait until you do.
ive gotten that effect 2 times if youre referring to when the engine just magically cuts off and loose power. But that happened to me 2 min in to the game asw out from no where. With only an strafe shot to the tail which resulted in light yellow not long back from an AI on the ground so was nothing substantial damage at all and i even heard only that one shot hit me.
If its the oil overheatage youre talking about then yep that can happen but its usually related to something that got hit around your engine and malfunctions
An tip for you when dog fighting. Use takeoff flaps to out turn Attack planes or most planes for that matter. Its the only way. Loosing speed wont help and makes you a sitting duck frankly. In some situations it works, usually when youre a bit behind them and have to sharp turn with them. But takeoff flaps and sometimes just slight lower the throttle helps if the wind pushes you to not turn properly. Its weird ik but works wonder for fighter planes. You can high speed flap those asw over 300 even in 400 but dont overdo it since it can break them.
My theory in to this practision was that i was pissed off that Attack planes could turn as fast as my fighter plane, then i remember they only had landing flaps an i tried it on the fighter and woops
-DODGE THIS YOU BASTARD-
I only use combat flaps when i need to do some small adjustments on sharp turns or if i want more control of the plane for small adjustments when tailing some one or want slight more accuracy control in high speed strafe running
This is just some guidelines from my experience…but what do i know…im not an Ace…yet 
There’sm relaly no reason to worry about overheating in Enlisted at least for CAS dunno about the spitfire, is it evne in tunisia (who gives a fuck about fighters anyway).
