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Originally Posted by Shrike_UK
For the Superchargers question and most about prop pitch in flight i'll leave that for the more aviator types to explain as it still escapes me. However, Propellor Pitch is extremely useful when landing on a carrier. Whilst on your approach you can run about 40% throttle, and lower your prop pitch to adjust your airspeed. This is a big advantage as if you dont have enough speed to make the landing its faster for the mechanics of the aircraft to change prop pitch than spool up the engine revs. Therefore, control your prop pitch on landing and you can easy get power fast if you need to abort landing.
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Isn't that the wrong way around? From what I gather, Throttle in IL-2 controls the manifold pressure and Prop Pitch controls the RPM governor on most aircraft (not some of the early war planes perhaps). You want to keep RPM high, and vary the manifold pressure, surely? Look at the RPM gauge in an aircraft as you change prop pitch and you should see that.
As for the supercharger, the best rule seems to be to see if changing the supercharger to a higher stage gives you a higher boost pressure, and if it does, leave it that way. Better than that, track down the pilot's notes or manual for the actual aircraft and see what they say.