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[Thrasher]

Gentlemen,
I was flying a mission last night with the Bluejays squad. We were flying a Hurricane IIb with two 44 gallon drop tanks.

Two questions arose while we were flying.  The first involved the large red light (to the right of the undercarriage indicators) which kept coming on. We assumed that it was an overheat light so we all throttled back, checked that our radiator cowls were open and lowered our prop pitches.  The red light went out.
But then we all noticed that our engine temps were dropping but our oil temperatures were not.  We were all running at about 95 degrees which is surely too high.

QUESTION 1.  How do you lower the oil temp when there do not appear to be any oil radiators in the CONTROLS?

QUESTION 2.  Somebody asked, how do you jettison the fuel tanks? that was easily answered but then the question was asked - How do you know when the 44 gallons have been used up and it is time to drop the tanks?

Thanks for your wisdom (clearly I don't have any. lol)

[vonofterdingen]

Regarding item #2...this is the method I know.

Check your fuel level at mission start (most likely it will be 100%). That value is for the main tanks and doesn't include the wing pods. As you monitor your fuel level in flight, when fuel level begins to drop you know that your wing pods are empty. Drop them when empty, or when in combat, or before landing.

[Thrasher]

Oh that makes sense!  Thanks vonofterdingen

[Wing Walker]

I just tried this out of curiosity,

The engine overheated when the oil got above 100degrees...

I lowered the prop pitch to 85%, opened the radiator all the way, and reduced speed to 50% and the oil temp lowered at a decent rate.

 

[Thrasher]

Right down to 50% eh?  Good to know
cheers