Full CEM with the Hurri...

[louisv]

Originally Posted by maxwellbest

Hurricane CEM...

Hi all

My first foray flying the Hurri with CEM on, ended in disaster with my engine seizing, me ending up at the bottom of the Channel. Thought I had it covered, but obviously not (t'was a Rotol Hurricane). How are other folks managing mixture, rpm, oil and radiator temps etc. Mapping the oil and radiator to keys did not seem to do much, is there any visual clue in the cockpit as to how much these are opened? Have no probs in the ME 109 when on CEM (mixture is auto, etc). I have been using a Thrustmaster throttle (good for modern sims), but am going to switch to a Saitek throttle with 3 axes and swicths. What are other folk mapping to their axes to help with CEM? A guide specific to the Hurri would be most appreciated...
Cheers

There is a little icon on the bottom left of your screen when you fly.
It has four or five sliders depending on aircraft, on the Hurri the last two sliders on the right are the oil and water rads, just put them on max and forget about them...(don't know if that works with a real Hurri, but it does in Clod). You can try to put them halfway to see if you go faster (less drag), but I don't think so.

As for RPM, it is managed with the prop pitch; set it the RPM you want and use the throttle to give more power, at same RPM.

The Rotol is a constant speed prop, it will vary its pitch automatically to keep the RPM constant, within limits. Take off at full fine pitch, then do like a bicycle, coarse pitch horizontally to pick-up speed, fine pitch when the engine strains, just as you strain going up a hill with your bike. Take-off looks like 3000 RPM, long cruise is 2200-2400. Don't hold 3000 RPM for more than a few minutes.

Mixture is one of two: auto-rich or auto-lean, nothing in between, auto-rich is most of the time and auto-lean is for long cruises at lower RPM.

Edit: The sliders icon on the hurri has the last slider on the right for BOTH radiators, there is only one slider and not two as I wrote earlier. Sorry for the oversight.

Lou