help flying the corsair

[Ctrl E]

thanks for the great info. what about magnetos, anyone?

and the superchargers? if i'm in trouble at low level would i get better performance for a sharp burst by ramping the supercharger up to 3?

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

thanks for the great info. what about magnetos, anyone?

and the superchargers? if i'm in trouble at low level would i get better performance for a sharp burst by ramping the supercharger up to 3?

Magnetos you don't really need to worry about, unless you turn them off in flight by accident.
I don't think you'd get better performance, and I think you'd probably make your engine sad if you did. You could try, though, I'm sure.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

thanks for the great info. what about magnetos, anyone?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a long time since I did my BAK test and any actual flying. But the dual Magneto's have two functions.

No 1 Safety (Main reason) - having a redundant ignition system, one gets damaged the other one is still operational.

No 2 Performance (Minor) - Having the two sparkpugs firing (Some aircraft with converted non aero engines have the dual magnetos hooked up to the single spark plugs so this dosent apply) gives a more even burn of the fuel in the combustion chamber which leads to a more efficent burn. In practice this only amounts to a small percentage increase in performance. When your doing your engine run up and you switch to a single magneto, your RPM only drops a few percent (in a 152 you run your engine up to 1700RPM and the maximum drop allowed is about 125RPM) The check is mainly used to check to see if both magnetos are actually running

Cheers!

[R0NNC0]

Change supercharger on the Corsair at 6000ft and 18,000ft when you're running wide open; switch a little higher on lower power. If you shift too early, you'll rob power from the engine-check the RPM gauge when you shift prematurely and you'll see the RPMs drag a little bit. Hellcat is the same way.

[steppie]

here a kink to a corsair flight maunal.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=...age&q=&f=false

As for propeller pitch first thing you have to get your head a round is that you have no direct control over the propeller pitch in the game and once you get over this then you will under stand on how it works and it so simple that it a governor. and what you have to remember that when an engine with 1000 hp it don't take much to over rev and also the amount of work load that it would take to keep the engine at it best RPM the pilot would have no time to dog fight so they made them CSP so the pilot don't have to watch the engine with out fear of over rev and damaging the engine.
the next time you fly a bf 109 watch the Prop Pitch Indicator (the gauge right of the RPM gauge) it will move up and down to try and keep the engine in the best rpm range.the only difference between germany aircraft to the rest aircraft is that you can't control the RPM setting.

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by steppie

the only difference between germany aircraft to the rest aircraft is that you can't control the RPM setting.

Thanks for the link to the manual, steppie! I *think* you can alter RPM in German aircraft if you use Shift+0 - on at least some of the aircraft with automatic prop pitch that combination toggles between automatic and manual control.

[PilotError]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

thanks for the great info. what about magnetos, anyone?

and the superchargers? if i'm in trouble at low level would i get better performance for a sharp burst by ramping the supercharger up to 3?

You should normally run with both magnetos on , ie 1 + 2.
But the magnetos are modelled for damage. So if your engine starts running rough, or more usually just stops after beng hit, then try switching to 1 or 2 individually and restart the engine. If it is a damaged magneto then your engine will restart and you can continue what you were doing.

It has happened to me in the past a few times, but usually if your engine gets hit it will be more serious damage to the engine itself.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers.