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Originally Posted by Tree_UK
Im not getting my head around this, In the Mk1 and Mk1a spit (currently in CLOD) the prop pitch setting is either '0' or '100', whereas in the hurricane rotol you can fine tune the prop pitch, is it the case that the spitty isn't bugged and is historically correct? In truth I normally fly blue but sometimes numbers dictate that I should fly red, so i am certainly no expert on the Spit, but it does seem very underpowered to me, i could be doing something wrong but there is very little to mess about with other than the radiator as the PP does nothing!! I can keep up with a 109 in a Hurri, but not a hope in hell in the spit. Any advice will be welcomed.
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The short version is that it's not a bug, we just have early model Spits in the sim. The early Spits had a propeller with only two positions and no ability to precisely fine tune the blade angle. In essence, it's like flying with a fixed pitch prop but you get two available pitch settings instead of one.
What this means is that you can't precisely fine tune it like you can do in the 109 (where you directly influence pitch over its entire range of motion) or the Rotol Hurri (where you influence the governor and it keeps the RPM where you want within its limits of motion): you get only two available angles to set the prop to and any single given pitch angle is very limited in terms of how much of your available speed range it is efficient at.
If i was to describe it in a single sentence, i'd say we have correct modeling of the wrong variants.
These Spits flew like that during the battle of France (and Hurricanes too) so i'm not in favor of them getting changed altogether to constant speed prop models, since we have a map that can do BoF as well. What needs to be done is just alter the Ia to a constant speed prop model since it already has the CSP spinner modeled in terms of graphics. Then we could use the Spit Mk.I and the Hurri with the DH prop with their two-pitch props for BoF, while still having the Mk.Ia and Mk.II Spits along with the Rotol prop Hurricane for BoB scenarios.