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Originally Posted by Lololopoulos
ok I understand why u would need to keep the revs at bay using prop pitch during a Sturzflug (as the official manual put it, lol), but as of now I really don't see how it can benefit level and turning flying, or even climbing. I've heard some more experience pilots say that if u can manage the prop pitch well, it's like being able to drive a manuel car, and in combat u can really gain an edge.
is that really true?  |
do yourself a favour and pick the 109.
Set the throttle to 1,1 ATA and set the pitch to 11:00. It is as you would fly a plane with a fixed propeller !
Fly level, climb, dive. And watch the changes of the rpm gauge ! the rpm are changing.
To keep the rpm in at the wanted setting, you have to change the propellerblade angle - called the pitch in game.
The Spitifre II, Hurricane 'Rotol' , Ju87 (as examples),are different. They have a ConstantSpeedPropeller, where an automatic is TRYING to keep the desired rpm constant by changing the propeller blades automaticly - this system is the governor !
Ju88, He111, G.50 and Br.20 have also CSP (even when the Ju88A-1 should have historical also a manual pitch propleer like the 109...)
In a 109 and 110, the Pilot himself has to be the governor
Hurricane DH, Spit I&Ia and Blenheim has a propeller with only two fixed settings - in general one (the coarse one, compare it to the 109's at 10:00) for level flying and the other one (the fine one, compare it to the 109's at 12:00) for start and combat . With the fine one you have to be very carefull with the throttle not to overrev the engine ! The coarse one does also not work very good (at least in my Blenheim experience) , because with it it is difficult to mantain the needed engine temperature.....
07-22-2011, 08:37 AM
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