Prop Pitch question...

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Originally Posted by na85

Okay, I would very much appreciate if someone can clear up some of my questions:

If I'm in an American plane (p47, p51) and I want good level acceleration, should I be at about 80% pitch or so or should I do 100%?

If I'm in the same plane and in a hurry to get somewhere, or to get away from someone, should I be at 100% pitch, 110% throttle? Or should I be at lower pitch?

Does the same thing apply for Russian planes and FW190's (in manual mode)? (I'm aware the 109 has a different manual pitch system)

Thanks

For best acceleration in game and top speed also top climb values it is required to use 100% prop pitch.
As Franky said everything else is a myth to me, I've yet to see the track where one can get greater speed on less prop pitch than 100.
However, in dive you can have a luxury of using less than 100, say 80-90%... and maintain the similar speed you'd have with 100% prop pitch.
That works good in P-47/51.

Russian planes are bound to same rules, top performance = 100% prop pitch. Less = less performance.

German planes are better to just leave alone in this case. They have automatic system that works good.
Anyhow, if you mess around with Bf-109 prop pitch you will gain nothing; at best you will just get crappy performance, at worst you get a ruined engine. It wasn't always like that, but due to prop pitch exploit (109 always climbed like a rocket, but even more so with prop pitch exploit, from Auto to 100%) OM team made manual prop pitch unusable for performance gains in 109's some time ago in some patch (can't recall exactly).