heh, its back to the schoolbench for me. I have been spending the past two days familiarizing me with the game...you know configuring the joystick (took me about a day...for some reason my stick was hyper sensitive, the slightest touch would send me into a mad spin almost like the joystic sensors was binary or something...odd)...then another couple of hours to remap all the keys...
So I decided to take an 109E7 up for a spin against an IL2 without tail gunner...seemed to be a good first flight. Well...I missed my first pass overshooting him, then it took a couple of minutes to reaquire him (green aircraft is bloody hard to spot vs a green ground), so I was closing in on him when my engine started to sound like a broken bicycle. Then I saw the IL2 starting to pull ahead, and my engine was giving more and more odd sounds. I tinkered a bit with the throttle, lowerd it, changed prop pitch (for some reason not even I know), opened the cowl flaps about halfway, and changed the mixture to 120%...still no luck. By now I was doing 240something at full throttle and max pitch and the engine sounded horrible. Anyway...after a couple of minutes flying at 80% throttle with 100% mixture, open cowl flaps and 70% pitch, the engine started to sound normal again. The IL2 was a mere speck on the horizon, so I increased pitch and throttle again, closed the cowl flaps down to 2 or something like that, and I could see I was gaining on him again.
But alas...after another 5 minutes the engine noise returned, and I decided to hit the schoolbooks on engine management instead...
This is an awesome game