Short term access space is about equivalent to what one finds under
an average modern automobiles hood, right? (Roughly half of the engine
compartment is empty space for maintenance needs.)
Compact cars might be defined as "no access space", a real pain to perform
full maintenance on.
I know many people have had to remove engines to perform the work.
I have seen some opened-up pictures of jet engine pods, and now
that I think of it, it seems fairly obvious that they do not
have nowhere near that much access space (+100%) in relation to
the engines overall volume - the empty space inside the jet
engine's tube is there for the airflow regardless of maintenance
needs, and so does not count as added maintenance access space..
(..I also have a hunch that Ve2 standard rules for jet engine pods
without the access space would provide fairly close +/-20% matches
with real world aircraft performance specs..)
Other problems:
being in pods reduces Body HP, reduces wing HP (IIRC, as it is due to Body
HP).
Lower Body HP means lower body HT.
Perhaps a case could be made that engines in the pods would not
require nearly as much access space as an internal short-occupancy
installation?
Perhaps they should be installed in a vehicle bay?
What if the engine stats in Ve2 already include the minimal
maintenance access space necessary for components built into pods?
From VE12, that is assumed. ST Access space is added after.
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