(26) IL-2 Complex Engine Management 2 Understanding Manual Propeller Pitch
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The mysteries of Manual Propeller Pitch unveiled! Maximize your aircraft performance - or just realize it's a whole lot more to do and stick with automatic mode...
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Great video. Along with your tutorial on CEM. A ground school instructor couldn't have presented it better. Unfortunately, if the multi-player servers require this level of operational detail I, for one, won't be doing any multiplayer action. I had to learn this stuff in fixed wing civilian aircraft, which required a whole lot of attention to detail and checklists. I can't imagine having to do it in a ww2 fighter while other people are sneaking up and shooting you. Nope, I think I'd look for another job in the army... like a cook.
Hi Ray, non of it is difficult. It all takes practice. You can fly the Pe-2 and not worry about feathering your prop. Russians didn't think it important! Best to practice without having your are shot off first. The p-47 is the single most labour intensive machine. But if you get it's CEM down it is formidable indeed.
Thanks!
A ton more engine management videos to watch :)
Hello! How to activate the Spitfire propeller pitch?
Thanks!
Congratulations on the channel!
RPM prop lever.
I'm not sure if I should go all out with manual control planes as a new pilot or just go with the 109. I figured if I can keep practicing with manual controls I'll eventually 'get it'.
First, learn to fly the aeroplane. Then add more complex things as you improve. All German 109s are esentially automatic so there is nothing else to do. Prolly the most complex is the p47 with its superchargers, throttle/rpm interlocks, cowl shutters etc. There are many specific How to vid guides on each of these.
@@colninny8769 I find myself drawn to the P-47 as I'm a gearhead that really likes the gauge layout and the thinking that went into it's interlocking RPM, supercharger and throttle and pitch. Reading the manual it recommends locking all 3 together in combat to minimize pilot load.
Why a clock style gauge and not, say, a more graphically accurate representation of a propeller from top down, for example?
it's a German thing. Makes no sense to me either :)
Great video. So let me pose this question to you which is tangent to the issues you discuss here but relevant for aircraft without the fully automated German system. Let's say...Spitfire or P40, which do have variable pitch propellers but work slightly differently. In that type of aircraft, you use the prop lever to set the desired RPM, and then the governor automatically varies the propeller pitch in order to hold the engine as close to the designated RPM as possible. In game, as you adjust this value the technical messages read that you are setting "RPM" to a value ranging anywhere from 1-100% - and so here is my question...in these types of aircraft, under emergency conditions such as a dogfight, is a full 100% RPM setting always going to be the way to go in order to achieve maximum temporary horsepower/thrust? Obviously (especially in certain aircraft) we're going to be extremely limited in how long we can leave the engine in a 100% RPM, 100% open throttle posture due to heat/manifold pressure concerns, but is that the *best* thing to do in order to extract maximum power? Is it possible to make any sort of adjustment from there in order to eek out a tad bit more power? I suppose the question boils down to how good the governors were, and the general question about whether or not an aircraft always hits its highest possible performance at maximum engine RPM.
Also - which "RPM" setting is equivalent to a feathered propeller position on these types of setups? I would assume that would be "100%", but it's not always been clear to me that my prop is truly feathered when I have looked at it when stationary in game with RPM set to 100%.
Cheers and thanks for the video!
Good questions. I haven't flown the Spit or P-40 much so cannot give an educated opinion on them. You might post this on the IL-2 tech forum for high tech response. None of the S/e a/c in the game game can feather their props, Closest setting is 100% = full fine.
Thanks again. Great videos. I guess that makes plenty of sense that there wouldnt be any true feathering on a single engine fighter. Not like you're gliding all the way back to a friendly aerodrome in 99/100 cutout scenarios anyways...either way its a belly landing or bailout.
Is there a link for the table you put in the video?
No, those are random from the internet to help illustrate the points.
Yeah, reality would have sucked! The only way to simulate that would be to buy the game, not be allowed to fly multiplayer for 200 hours and then even if you got shot down in the first sortie to never be allowed to play again...