If you experience the "prop pitch bug" in the 109E4

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by Insuber

Nope. In auto, the E4 starts always at 12:00 pitch. T/O is OK. I confirm my description of the issue, prop pitch coarsens after T/O till 8:30/1500 rpm. It works again by doing the procedure described by the OP.

My point was that there seems to be a weird issue with default position of the prop pitch lever in a Bf 109s (all of them). Offline, it's on neutral as you expect it to be, but if you spawn online, the Drehzahl lever is in 'kleiner' position (lower RPM), which is causing the obvious drop on manual (E-1 and E-3) and perhaps some issues with the E-4, too. On auto, the RPM is also dropping, but much slower. You need to do the same adjustment like on the E-1 and E-3 and make sure it's on 12:00 (part of the take off routine). You won't have any issues that way no matter if you fly manual or auto.

I agree with what you guys wrote and I believe this offline / online business needs to be sorted out and fixed. It seems that everyone is experiencing slightly different issues, I found it quite random - sometimes it works just fine, sometimes I get this drop. Sometimes I spawn online with prop pitch on auto by default, but if I just re-spawn, it sort of remembers the last setting (manual or auto) to start with, e.g. whatever I left it on after landing. Happens only under certain circumstances on some servers. All in all, I believe the prop pitch is modelled correctly as such, but there is something wrong with spawning online.

Also, it might have something to do with the way you control the prop pitch on 109. In my opinion, the usual wheel axis (0-100) on a joystick is not very suitable and I prefer my HAT (returns to the neutral center position like the real thing), that might cause some issues, too.