Mixture & Pitch axis issues.

[kingpinda]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

is there a real need to adjust mixture anyway?, even in the real world we just tend to leave it rich, using the EGT trick for leaning is all well and good trying to save a bit of fuel in a C152 or cherokee etc, only aircraft I have flown that need the mixture adjusted have fuel flow gauges which were used to set either a climb or cruise figure, any other time the mixture is rich, my guess is you would want mixture rich in combat too.

I don't know if this is accurate or not... But in il-2 sturmovik when you want to boom and zoom, read:surprise thine enemy from above, its wise to set your mix lean on high altitudes. otherwise the enemy could see you from miles away because you were spewing a nasty dark smoke trail. I am not talking about contrails at even higher altitudes.