Merlin engine limits & failure behaviour

[Viper2000]

Careful reading of your 2nd document is quite interesting.

"The knob on the mixture control lever projects into the way of the throttle control lever to ensure that the mixture control is pulled back to RICH on closing the throttle, thus preventing the mixture from being excessively weakened at small throttle openings."

[Emphasis added]

Clearly this is in conflict with the concept of a 2 position auto mixture; the control might have had 2 positions, but if so then this strongly implies that there were major problems...

I think that in the context of the sim, in order to avoid scaring off new players, we should try to ensure that the engine controls displayed in that little alt-window are standardised (ie forward = more throttle, more revs, richer mixture). Personally I'd be inclined to say that forward = closed radiator, because forward = fast = caution, but perhaps I'm in the minority there.

In any case, we need the non-cockpit controls to be standardised in order to bring on new players with the minimum pain.