[Raven Morpheus]

Hello

I just upgraded my IL2 install to 4.12.2.

And I've gone to fly my current favourite plane, 2nd only to the F4U in the 1944 Okinawa campaign, the Mosquito FB VI 1943.

However I am finding that no matter which map I'm on after take off, and after I exceed 120mph, I always overheat the engines and then they eventually fail on me - within a matter of minutes. Nothing I've tried so far seems to stop it happening.

I have read the manual for 4.12.2 and the notes on engine overheating but I still don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Here's what I do to take off -

I start the mission on chocks (I put them in if they're not already there), I set elevator trim so it pulls my nose up, I throttle up to about 20%, leave it for a second, throttle up some more until I get to 110%, I let the chocks out and roll down the runway. Once I'm airborne, gear up and in a reasonable level/stable flight I throttle back to 75% or less.

I have tried throttling up gradually whilst rolling down the runway but I still get the same issue once in the air. I have tried throttling back when airborne to as low as 50% throttle. I've tried lowering my prop pitch to 75% or less once I've gotten airborne. I've tried opening the radiator (by pressing R) once I'm in the air. I've tried all 3 at once. Nothing seems to help, and in fact throttling back and/or reducing prop pitch once I'm airborne causes me to crash the plane.

At the moment the only way I can fly the Mosquito in 4.12.2 (I don't know about other planes, I've not actually tried yet) is to turn off Engine Overheat in the difficulty menus.

Please can someone offer some standardised settings/procedures I can use for a good stable flight with the Mosquito (and/or just in case point me in the direction of similar settings for other planes)?

Thanks in advance.