Ironman has given great advise for Prop Pitch Managment for gaming IL2. IRL you would burn out an engine in no-time-at-all with these techiques.
Roma also had terrific advise for saving a bad engine. Again, useless IRL, however; Throttlinge back to 70% and bringing my prop pitch back to about 80% gives me more flight time with a crippled engine... My training as a pilot and a flight instructor has ingrained into my brain bucket to never exceed Manifold Pressure over Prop Pitch, so I follow that rule in-game too. It saves me from transfering bad engine management techiques into RL.
Example how Prop pitch should work in-game - HIGH SPEED DIVES:
Prop Pitch should be full forward to prevent over-speeding the airframe. Sounds confusing to some, I know, but here's why.
Dispite the High RPM pitch, this setting flattens the blade angle. The Govenor will prevent over-speeding the engine. The flat plane of the spinning prop now acts as a huge spinning speed-brake.
Great thread gents!
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