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Originally Posted by Tempest123
However the message is Prop Pitch 100%, 90% etc. which is useless for a CSP because 1: you are not setting prop pitch, you are setting RPMs and 2: the percentage values are the wrong units of measure anyways. The messages should read RPM 2350, RPM 2500, RPM 3000 etc.
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I think if it was RPM: 100% etc., that would be fine. It's easy enough to understand that the percentage is of maximum governed RPM. Explicitly stating the RPM setting chosen would be fairly pointless in my opinion, especially when you consider that max RPM varies between aircraft. If you're going down that route, you may as well ask for the "Throttle" message to read "Manifold Pressure" and to be measured in inches of mercury, relative pounds per square inch or atmospheres. Leave that to the gauges, I think.
As for changing the message "Prop Pitch:" to read "RPM:" or "Governor RPM:", I agree completely, it would definitely help to dispel the huge amount of confusion which for some reason seems to surround constant speed propellers in this game. I agree also on the messages for variable pitch propeller equipped aircraft, but it's worth considering the effort required in programming to display a different message depending upon the propeller type of the aircraft all for such a trivial result. Might be the reason that there's only the one slightly misleading message to begin with.
12-20-2009, 01:45 PM
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