help flying the corsair

[Fearfactor]

Originally Posted by Shrike_UK

For the Superchargers question and most about prop pitch in flight i'll leave that for the more aviator types to explain as it still escapes me. However, Propellor Pitch is extremely useful when landing on a carrier. Whilst on your approach you can run about 40% throttle, and lower your prop pitch to adjust your airspeed. This is a big advantage as if you dont have enough speed to make the landing its faster for the mechanics of the aircraft to change prop pitch than spool up the engine revs. Therefore, control your prop pitch on landing and you can easy get power fast if you need to abort landing.

I really don't think that's how they did it in real life. In most modern civilian types that have CSP, it's the very opposite. You want to go to full fine prop pitch ( full RPM ) when about to land. In some turbine engined planes that have a huge amount of reserve power, it's not said to be necessary though. Many King Air pilots just leave their prop RPM where it was during high altitude flight, all the way down to the runway. This is an exception to the rule though. On take off, even a King Air pilot will go for full fine though.

[Crumpp]

You want to go to full fine prop pitch ( full RPM ) when about to land.

Exactly.

G - Gas on fullest tank
U - undercarriage set; all green or locked and welded
M- Mixture rich
P - Propeller full rpm <100%> on final

[Dash 8]

Originally Posted by Fearfactor

I really don't think that's how they did it in real life. In most modern civilian types that have CSP, it's the very opposite. You want to go to full fine prop pitch ( full RPM ) when about to land. In some turbine engined planes that have a huge amount of reserve power, it's not said to be necessary though. Many King Air pilots just leave their prop RPM where it was during high altitude flight, all the way down to the runway. This is an exception to the rule though. On take off, even a King Air pilot will go for full fine though.

I fly a DeHavilland Dash 8 in RL and you are correct about about turboprops with huge amounts of power. The Dash 8 has a low RPM setting of 900 RPMs which we use in cruise, and a high (fine pitch) limit of 1200 RPMs we use for takeoff, initial climb, AND Go-Around. We fly approaches at an intermidiate setting of 1050 RPMS just to keep the noise levels down in the cabin (1200 is permited, but it is Very Loud). We leave it at 1050 all the way to touchdown, but if we go around, the non flying pilot pushes them up to the max of 1200. I know it seems like these are low numbers for the prop RPMs and I thought that too when I first started to fly the Dash, but it has almost 14 foot diameter propellers and any higher RPMs would get the tips close to supersonic with a great loss of efficiency.