Help! Keep blowing the engine.
 

no matter how i keep juggling the mixture and radiators i seem to keep destroying the engine and having my windscreen covered in oil.

a little help?

planetype and CEM setting please !

all of them! and what is CEM?

Complex Engine Management


well, if ALL (the planes differ a little bit to be honest....) than , after the engine have started , warm them up !
The Radials need 200° cylinder temperatur as example to work proper :D
The liquid cooled, 60° for oil and water , at least not lower than 40°, is a good try !

and dont touch the emergency power systems for a normal start................

If it's a Spit or Hurri,make sure you're rads are open fully on taxing(Especially the Spit),and take off,once airborne you can turn them down to about half open.

Also don't have you're throttle open on full all of the time,the Brit engines don't like it.

Can't tell you about the Nazi kites as I don't fly 'em;)

Which aircraft? 109 have water and oil radiator separately, you have to open both.

You should download 2GFleas "Aircraft Operations Checklists"
http://www.2gvsap.org/flea/OP2GvSAPINST_3710.1A.pdf
there you find the operational data for some planes included in CoD.

Bf109 and Bf110
If you open the oil cooler before start-up you wait a looong time to get to 40°C!
Open the radiator (water) to 50% and leave the oil-cooler closed until you have reached 40°C Oil-Temp, then open to 50% also.
You can accelerate the warm up by running at slightly elevated rpm's, but stay below the rpm when the engine starts shaking!!

I am sorry for this, but the 109 does not demand an operation like this. If the PP stay on 12:00, you can take off immediately after engine start.

So for the Spit and Hurri ...

Does prop pitch play a factor at all in blowing the engine?

So basically i should be opening radiator (and oil rad?) on start up - then closing to half way on take off. then throttling back as soon as airborne?