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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt
I'm not sure it's dead-on 500, it might be 485, but it's certainly closer than most people get. The main trick is to "switch your gears" when they peak, that is, change prop-pitch each time you see your airspeed not increasing anymore.
I'll try to remember to make a track tomorrow (it's a bit late currently) and upload it, it would be good practice for me too and maybe i'll pick up an extra trick or two during the process. Cheers  |
I'm not a 109 flyer but I thought I'd drop in something Ulrich Steinhilper said in his autobiography "Spitfire on my tail". He was flying the Me109E.
He said that some of the inexperienced pilots had problems keeping up because they could not get used to the idea of establishing an airspeed with high pitch then coarsening it to get a surge in speed with a drop in rpm (a bit like connecting the energy of a rotating flywheel - the rotating engine mass) then, before the gained speed fell away with falling rpm, returning to higher pitch to maintain speed and let the revs build up again, then keep repeating the process. In this way they gained speed more quickly.
Perhaps behaving a bit like KERS in current Formula 1.