Just had a good dogfight with a Sopwith Strutter, which I finally shot down;
but the gunner also wounded me and damaged my engine.

When I heard irritating new sounds, I immediately reduced throttle by half.
I dived away, and then checked my health status: 77%.
F5 info also showed the engine status - still 100%.
So - where the noises I believed to hear, not so bad?

I pushed throttle forward - only to see a rapidly decreasing engine health value!
Quickly I reduced throttle again - and the decrease stopped. The value staiblised
at 67% engine health.

I almost reached my homefield with that, but the craft slowly went lower and lower,
and when a treeline had to overcome, I gave some more throttle.
With the consequence, that the engine now quickly died.
I could just put my craft down next to a road.

So when your engine is hit and makes crank noises, it may help you to reduce throttle
at once, and try to get home with 50% or even less.

Thank you, Robert, for your idea to land next to roads in such cases - it saved my pilot!
In that thick snow and rain drizzle I wouldn't have seen any fences.

Thanks also to Creaghorn - your sounds are very good and they tell something about
how the engine "feels" - if one only listens!

Yea, I do that, too.

Most times the engine will die on you, but one time I raced for home with the engine at 100% and the engine exploded in a fireball. Since then, I throttle down.

Yes, Creaghorn has done excellent work with the engine sounds. There seem to be all kinds of nasty sounds that the various engines can make, depending on damage and component failures.

But as good as the sounds are, I'd prefer to not hear them too often, especially when behind enemy lines.

Thank you Olham and Hasse,

it is also depending of having Inline or Rotary engines.