Will someone give me some tips?

[KnightFandragon]

Originally Posted by Splitter

Also, if the plane does not control prop pitch automatically and if you have prop pitch close to 100% in a dive at high speed, it can "over rev" the engine and cause a fast heat build up. This is not as catostrophic in IL-2 as it should be.

Ive run my engine at 110% for a long time with that over heat warning going off and it does eventually kill my engine and I hear it starting to do that whistle sound you get when it gets hit.....I guess by catastrophic you mean the engine flaming out in short order from over heating? Ive had my engines inop, lose power and fly at lousy power when I run them overheated for along time. Even in the 262 my engines lit on fire once....that sucked haha

[Splitter]

Originally Posted by KnightFandragon

Ive run my engine at 110% for a long time with that over heat warning going off and it does eventually kill my engine and I hear it starting to do that whistle sound you get when it gets hit.....I guess by catastrophic you mean the engine flaming out in short order from over heating? Ive had my engines inop, lose power and fly at lousy power when I run them overheated for along time. Even in the 262 my engines lit on fire once....that sucked haha

Yeah, being at 100% prop pitch is like having your car in first gear. Very responsive, but limited in its' way.

First gear is good for climbing hills. 100% prop is good for taking off and climbing out.

But if you are going down hill at 150kph in your car and slam it into first gear, your RPMS will spike and something will break (some time before or after you lose control of course lol).

When you pop in 100% prop pitch at high speeds with no throttle, you suddenly have a big air brake out in front of you. Instead of the prop biting the air, the air is moving so fast that it starts spinning the prop like a pinwheel.

At that point, the prop is spinning the engine...and that's backwards. Do it at high enough speed, or long enough, and something may break. Even if you get by with nothing breaking, the heat build up is rapid. That all is the catastrophic part. This is not modeled well in IL-2.

Another thing I have never had happen is carburetor icing. This can happen at any temperature at at any altitude. Chop throttle, or depending on the engine even cutting throttle significantly, and the engine will start choking. If left untreated, combustion stops. I don't know if this is modeled in IL-2 and of course it doesn't effect fuel injected engines.

This is another one of those things that I hope gets modeled into SoW.

Splitter