Help with Stuka

[Daniel]

Cant keep speed without overheating, I've bumped radiators up and tried to adjust pitch and throttle.

[Ribbon]

I'm not much into stuka but you may be overloaded (big bombs +100%fuel)....calculate your fuel wisely, many bombers are limited with fuel % vs. bombload, also try use elevator trim rather than pulling the stick.

[Technical 07]

thing with the stuka is there is a large amount of drag as you cant retract the landing gear. so if you are carrying a bomb load then you will have to reduce your fuel as the bombs will cause extra weight and drag . with a full bomb load i fly with 50% fuel but that's all dependant on the target and the distance.

[Adler]

75% throttle, 75% pitch, 100% radiators (oil and water) on summer. That's all you need. You can easly do it with 500kg+4x70kg. Don't take 1000kg, waste of time in this game. Would be good to kill forts, steel bridges etc. But you can do the same with 500kg, just smaller radius of explosion.

[smee_ger_ac]

About 400l is enough for one hour flight time, so I would say 300l is for most cases enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYweoO-Ki3Y

[smee_ger_ac]

I personaly prefer the 110 to bomb things, more robost, agile and faster than a bomber. Aim over the nose left or right of the Revi in a shallow dive 10-20° and you are fine XD

[Cynical Jester]

Lighten your fuel load to AT LEAST 50%. iirc you can have your rpm speed and throttle at 77-78% for continuous flight. Also for the love of GOD don't put your radiators at 100% in the summer. It's stupid and unnecessary. You'll be able to get good performance with your radiators at 30-40% in the summer. Then drop the radiators down to 20-25% after you've dropped your bomb load.

During winter flight you'll be able to get by with 10-15% radiators.

[NETSCAPE]

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/9001-ju-87-d-3-abbrev-pilots-manual/

[Adler]

You need 100% radiators on hot summer in most of your time, you need 100% on take off and climb and you mostly climb all the time. Keep your engine cool, you are not a fighter, in specifcation tab you can see optimal temperature of oil and water so you will know when to put it more or less. What is stupid and unnecessary is to stay on edge of overheat just to get 1km/h more speed. When you dive you close radiators so it's better to have good temperature before you do it.

Really dont listen to that guy, climbing in ju87 with bombs on summer map will always give you like 100 degree, keep them fully open. Even if you fly in normal setting, not climbing and close radiators you won't gain anything anyway so why bother? Keep it at 100% and forget about it, it's not a fighter and you won't runaway from anything anyway...