Mixture & Pitch axis issues.

[bongodriver]

I may be wrong but I thought the spitfire Ia prop pitch was a variable pitch, i.e. there were just 2 settings ....coarse and fine? and then the Mk IIa eventually was fitted with a constant speed unit.

[MadTommy]

Originally Posted by ptisinge

MadTommy, I have a X45 and the exact same problem. I checked my axis limits in the controls options, and that's all set fine, but while in the spitfire my prop pitch and mixture only move to 0 or 100%. I'm guessing something is bugging there, maybe in the way the game reads the rotary - although it reads it well in options screen. I hope we find out how to fix that. I might try to set some keyboard or button input to set it smoothly instead meanwhile.

Can you try the Hurricane.. as that is works fine for me. Its the Spit & 109 that seem bugged.

Originally Posted by bongodriver

I may be wrong but I thought the spitfire Ia prop pitch was a variable pitch, i.e. there were just 2 settings ....coarse and fine? and then the Mk IIa eventually was fitted with a constant speed unit.

Yeah.. that is true, but the fuel mix is the issue.

[reflected]

+1

Hurri and Moth work fine, but in the Spitfire I can only set the mixture to full rich or full lean. So that's a bug, and that's why I keep killing me engine all the time?!

[bongodriver]

is there a real need to adjust mixture anyway?, even in the real world we just tend to leave it rich, using the EGT trick for leaning is all well and good trying to save a bit of fuel in a C152 or cherokee etc, only aircraft I have flown that need the mixture adjusted have fuel flow gauges which were used to set either a climb or cruise figure, any other time the mixture is rich, my guess is you would want mixture rich in combat too.

[kingpinda]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

is there a real need to adjust mixture anyway?, even in the real world we just tend to leave it rich, using the EGT trick for leaning is all well and good trying to save a bit of fuel in a C152 or cherokee etc, only aircraft I have flown that need the mixture adjusted have fuel flow gauges which were used to set either a climb or cruise figure, any other time the mixture is rich, my guess is you would want mixture rich in combat too.

I don't know if this is accurate or not... But in il-2 sturmovik when you want to boom and zoom, read:surprise thine enemy from above, its wise to set your mix lean on high altitudes. otherwise the enemy could see you from miles away because you were spewing a nasty dark smoke trail. I am not talking about contrails at even higher altitudes.

[Royraiden]

Im having similar problems, even after playing with the sliders.Its driving me crazy.

[bongodriver]

I don't know if this is accurate or not... But in il-2 sturmovik when you want to boom and zoom, read:surprise thine enemy from above, its wise to set your mix lean on high altitudes. otherwise the enemy could see you from miles away because you were spewing a nasty dark smoke trail. I am not talking about contrails at even higher altitudes.

It is true that mixture becomes richer at high altitudes (logically because the air becomes thinner) therefore a higher fuel to air ratio, but some aircraft had an automatic compensation system which meant the mixture was left in the rich setting.