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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
the fact that German pilot reports never seem to mention any boost levels during the whole war, and here's why - unlike the British, they had automated systems since the start of the war, so boost levels were meaningless to their pilots - they did not have to set it separately. Neither they needed to overboost woefully undersized engines to compete and thus it was utterly irrelevant to pilots.
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Well to be fair, the automatic boost control was also automated as the name suggests and yet pilots verbally referred to its use in many instances when they decided to override it.
There was actually very specific vocabulary to describe the use of emergency combat boost. The same went for any other conflict where they could use some extra power available (e.g. afterburners in Vietnam war) and often described it in their narrations, written or spoken. I am sure German pilots would be doing the same if that was the case. The only thing that could explain that lack of specific references to Erhoehte Notleistung (and mind you it referred to by the pilots in some late war combat literature as they were flying German aircraft with extra combat power designed by one mean or another) is that in the Emil, for emergency MAP one had to slam the throttle fully forward, there was no switch or knob or any gate to go through to prevent the use of 1,45 ata. So perhaps that is why.