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Old 01-26-2011, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by 5AF_8FS_Doc View Post
Good posts.

Why then does the p47 D have a supercharger lever in the throttle quadrant that never moves?

I have flown the jug at high altitude a ton... just tonight I was at 35k feet and was not able to attain anymore than 30 inches of MP. That was with a leaned pitch setting to about 80%. I even tried it at max RPM and it didnt help.

S~
That's more or less how it works actually. You were getting sea-level manifold pressure at 35k feet, so it's not bad at all
I think this is the so called critical altitude, an altitude that when exceeding it the engine can't maintain sea-level pressure values anymore.

Edit: Seems Azimech beat me to it

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Originally Posted by Azimech View Post
That's IL2's way of simulating that the turbo has reached it's maximum RPM and therefore the aircraft's critical altitude.
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