Engine settings

[Hotstuff]

Anyone have "pro tips" for engine management in AHIII?

Does anyone have ideas for how to use normal/cruise power settings other than extending range? It's just too easy to fly on MIL power. Can your temperature recover faster after using WEP if you throttle back from MIL?

[Lusche]

Anyone have "pro tips" for engine management in AHIII?

 Can your temperature recover faster after using WEP if you throttle back from MIL?

No, it's strictly time based.
There is no real (manual) engine management in AH, you just do adjust power & rpm for increased range / loiter time.

[perdue3]

Pretty simple in here. Throttle back to cruise and increase fuel efficiency. It gets interesting when you have a radiator leak

[Mongoose]

  Try this.  Throttle back to max cruise as shown in your E6B.  Open the E6B and look at your time and range at that throttle setting.  Then go to full throttle and see how your time changes.  It makes a big difference in your range.  Even just throttling back to standard will  increase your range, and there is not a big speed difference, at least in the planes I fly.

[popeye]

Semi-pro tip:

An aircraft that loses engine power will glide much farther with the prop set for minimum RPM.

[Hotstuff]

Semi-pro tip:

An aircraft that loses engine power will glide much farther with the prop set for minimum RPM.

To clarify, you will glide farther if the engine is out AND you set for minimum RPM?

I've noticed that if you will lose speed a at a much decreased rate if your engine is working and you set for minimum RPM.

[atlau]

Why do some engines seize vs windmill when they get oil leaks and run out?

With oil or rad hits what's the optimal setting to maximize your range before it quits completely?

[Hotstuff]

Why do some engines seize vs windmill when they get oil leaks and run out?

With oil or rad hits what's the optimal setting to maximize your range before it quits completely?

Excellent question that I hope we can get an answer... my procedure is to just start climbing with WEP to be in the best position for my long glide back to base. Would like to be proven otherwise.

[turt21]

One of those old nagging questions from a non-pilot. What is the diff between rpm and throttle in this game? Every time Im asked to adjust manifold pres in a 17 I adjust throttle. Am I doing this wrong?

[Mongoose]

Why do some engines seize vs windmill when they get oil leaks and run out?

Short answer:  Because that is how it works in real airplanes.  As to why this is, that's the long answer, which I am also looking forward to.

[Mongoose]

Semi-pro tip:

An aircraft that loses engine power will glide much farther with the prop set for minimum RPM.

Unless you have an airplane that can feather the prop, like a P-38.  My reading indicates that most single engine fighters didn't have props that can feather, but many multi-engine planes did.

By the way, good tip.

[Drano]

Unless you have an airplane that can feather the prop, like a P-38.  My reading indicates that most single engine fighters didn't have props that can feather, but many multi-engine planes did.

By the way, good tip.

As I understand it, and I'm sure HT will correct me here, in AH the prop pitch is tied into the RPM setting. Even so I don't think you ever get close to something like feathered. You can actually feather in IL2. Don't know about DCS. Don't even think they have any multi engine flyable props there tho

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[Puma44]

One of those old nagging questions from a non-pilot. What is the diff between rpm and throttle in this game? Every time Im asked to adjust manifold pres in a 17 I adjust throttle. Am I doing this wrong?

The throttle controls manifold pressure.  The prop controls RPM.

[Shuffler]

...so if your plane is on a conveyor and you set rpms at..... oh never mind

[hazmatt]

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