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Crumpp as others have stated, Steinhilper is clearly not complaining that rookies fell behind because of their inability to manually duplicate a CSP (i.e. continuously changing their variable prop pitch for a constant optimal rpm).

From his account he believed that he could only get optimal performance from pulsing the rpm, i.e duplicating a CSP with the rpm control being moved back and forth. This seems a little odd, and we must consider that it wasn't actually true. Perhaps if the rookie pilot managed to manually control his rpm at an optimum value like a CSP, he could have overtaken Steinhilper busily pulsing his rpms back and forth.

It is hard to state a good technical reason why the pulsing would have helped. Steinhilper believed that the thrust from the rpm boost could only occur if rpm was dropped again, implying that the extra rpm was high enough to not increase thrust. Perhaps 109 pilots decided it was OK to exceed rpm limits if they only did pulses above the limit, they achieved some extra thrust and speed this way but mistook the reason. Or perhaps a quirk of 109 engine/supercharger/prop design did allow a small performance increment doing this over maintaining rpm at a constant optimal value.

Your explanation of CSP function are correct but not relevant to what Steinhilper described.