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Originally Posted by cheesehawk

I rarely cruise at full 1.35ATA, prefer to keep the boost down to 1.16 or lower. How should the AutoPP respond to that in RL vs what it does in game (which is drop the PP down to 8:30 gradually)? I find it extremely unrealistic to dart around with the pedal to the metal all the time a la 1946. In manual mode, I tweak the rpm to around 9:30-10:10 to maintain a decent cruising speed, but the auto simply assumes I want the prop pitch backed off all the way, regardless of my planes attitude (dive or climb). Is that the way it worked historically? I know this isn't as sophisticated as the later Kommo systems.

Same here, in RL and also in game, your RPM will drop proportionally if your keep your MFP at say 1.16ata. If you encounter your prop pitch coarsening all the way down to 8:30, you probably have the glitch mentioned in this thread:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=27201

make sure your pp lever is in neutral position when you spawn (that's an issue online) and also make sure you take off at fine pitch. The PP drop is easy to overcome and that way, you get auto PP just as it worked in RL including it's behaviour under 1500RPM.