help flying the corsair

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Originally Posted by Shrike_UK

For the Superchargers question and most about prop pitch in flight i'll leave that for the more aviator types to explain as it still escapes me. However, Propellor Pitch is extremely useful when landing on a carrier. Whilst on your approach you can run about 40% throttle, and lower your prop pitch to adjust your airspeed. This is a big advantage as if you dont have enough speed to make the landing its faster for the mechanics of the aircraft to change prop pitch than spool up the engine revs. Therefore, control your prop pitch on landing and you can easy get power fast if you need to abort landing.

I really don't think that's how they did it in real life. In most modern civilian types that have CSP, it's the very opposite. You want to go to full fine prop pitch ( full RPM ) when about to land. In some turbine engined planes that have a huge amount of reserve power, it's not said to be necessary though. Many King Air pilots just leave their prop RPM where it was during high altitude flight, all the way down to the runway. This is an exception to the rule though. On take off, even a King Air pilot will go for full fine though.