Level bombing in the Blenheim

[JG53Frankyboy]

Originally Posted by kestrel79

Wow some great info here. I got airborne for the first time in the Blenheim last night on the Cross Country quick mission.

Some noob notes:

Hard to turn while on ground. I had full rudder and trim to keep it straight down the runway.

I cooked one engine after lowering the cowl flaps to 50% for about 5 seconds...I had to fly with them full open all the time so keep the engines cool. Surely I was doing something wrong...I think it was me flying with a 80% fine prop pitch. Seems most of you guys fly coarse pitch, that is correct? I'll try that next time.

And also I probably didn't allow that much warmup time.

the CoD Blenheim propeller works as following:
0-5% is full coarse pitch
5- ~35% its a variable pitch
35-100% is full fine pitch

i use these 5-35 settings for climbing after the start. on mission, i fly full coarse.
when full coarse, throttle 65-70% throttle , the engine stays between 200 and 250 degrees with cooling flaps 1/4 or 1/3 open.