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Originally Posted by -)-MAILMAN-
The settings in the game for the corsairs are either full rich or auto rich. In full rich the engine bogs down and smokes above 2000 feet. Full rich did not exist in these birds and should not be in the game, period. Auto rich is what was used on take off and landing and Auto lean for flight operations. These should be the two choices in the game. There is a reason the throttles had the two settings and should have differing affects on fuel consumption and engine performance based on altitude.
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Can't speak for the Corsair carburetor as I don't know first hand, but the Stromberg carburetors used on many US aircraft during the war (
PD-12E on the F4F, and NA-R9B and C on the Grumman Goose, for example) had four settings, including full rich:
Full Rich
Auto Rich
Auto Lean
Idle Cutoff
Full Rich was for emergency use only.
Auto Lean was used for cruising in level flight.
Auto Rich was used for all other flight and ground operations.
As mentioned, the game takes many expediencies when it comes to simplifying systems modelling in it's aircraft, and it has been that way since day one.