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takeoff/climb/cruise/descent/landing/combat power settings
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For these you can usually use real world data, adjusted to fit your own experiences in IL2.
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operational warnings (I.E. don't use the WEP for more than 5 minutes or your engine will go kaput) and things like that...
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You'll just have to test this
The IL2 overheat modelling is remarkably simple though: Once the engine temperature passes a certain limit an "OVERHEAT"-message appears. When that happens you have a certain time before the engine takes damage. This time is always the same regardless of speed, the amount of overheating, power setting, altitude etc. It only changes from one aircraft to another. Once this time has passed your engine is pretty much kaput
There's a catch here: The timer resets if the "OVERHEAT"-message disappers even for a second. So if the overheat-time for your aircraft is exactly four minutes and the you succeed to make the overheat message disappear at 3:58, no problems. You can now overheat another four minutes before damage occurs, and can repeat this (make message disapper, overheat again) for as long as you like.
