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The Figueres you are getting are the figures that I am getting. Marianas 20degrees. Clean aircraft, flaps fully up, Oil cooler closed, Intercooler fully closed. 8 kt tail wind Cowl flaps fully closed. 10,000 ft 2700rpm MP45 (reading), Supercharger 1st stage. MP 60, Supercharger 2nd stage MP 60 Supercharger 3rd stage Airspeed stays around 270kts Climb to 10,500 ft. Dive to 300kts then level. Aircraft maintains 280 kts for a few minutes then settles back to 270kts. Supercharger set to 2nd stage. Flown now for 40 mins. No overheating. Out of interest can anyone tell me what the situation is with the water inject light? Does it flash red or go out once water is emptied? And out of interest are people getting the same MP readings with these supercharger settings?

300 kts at 10000ft. What is your manifold pressure showing on your instrument gauge in this scenario? And what position is your supercharger?

I understand all that you are saying, I get exactly what should happen to add water injection so let’s be very clear about that, I’m not trying to look at having an argument with you. What I’m saying is the way this is behaving is very similar to the water injection feature on the P47 and also the visual features as well are evident. You also have to factor in why the 3 is featured on the RPM gauge when it’s not possible to achieve above 2700 why is this animated? I’m not arrogant enough to suggest what I’m saying is right but a lot is not making sense right now especially how when adding the increase in RPM I’m achieving figures far closer the the published speed figures of the Corsair. There’s been a lot of users also only achieving only around 260 kts IAS. Something is not adding up. Maybe the RPM gauge is giving us false readings? maybe the throttle lever is not injecting water as it should.

Ok. Well then she is very sluggish. You know when you introduce water to the P47 the rpm lever increases in a very similar way to this whatever it is. Bug/feature.

Is that 2700 without injection though?

I think that this mouse dragging on the rpm lever and increasing rpm is water injection, I understand that RPM lever should not add water injection. And this is just my guess. I’m going to have a look this evening and see if it corresponds with the water warning light in the cockpit. Hopefully this will be cleared up soon.

Yes now I have re-assigned my axis, by the sounds of what you have described. The physical way that this smoke shuts off as soon as I touch the RPM governor has me confused. Its like a shut off, I've looked externally and it comes to a stop as soon as I pull back on RPM.

So after first changing my prop governor to slider on axis tune options, I noticed I have full range on the handle. However I am still obtaining 2700rpm which i'm 99% sure I was obtaining before when my prop lever was not giving me full range. (Previously my governor was stopping short by a couple of inches) So now like I assume you are experiencing I click on the lever drag my mouse downward, experience no physical movement of the lever anymore but experience an increase in RPM from 2700 to 3300 but this can vary, depending if I'm climbing or descending sometimes it goes higher. But as before when I drag downwards on the handle with the mouse the faint plume of smoke appears, as soon as I pull back on the governor with my throttle lever the smoke stops.

Well hopefully we can get some confirmation soon.

Well all I know is since discovering this where the rpm lever is now dropping lower for me I can undoubtedly see a trail of faint black smoke from the airplane. Similar to the smoke trail from a F4 and B52. Maybe that’s also combined with having maximum throttle setting as well. Also it does explain why my speed went from 260kts to 320kts. Also when this RPM lever drops it also affects the distance the cowl flaps open. When we get some kind of confirmation from the devs then I guess it will all make sense.

When you do external view can you see a faint trail of black smoke when you have your axis set to maximum? What is presume is the water injection.

When I’m next on my PC I shall look at the figures I get for RPM. I don’t remember what they were. What I do know is I’ve gone from level flight of 260 kts to 320 kts since discovering this. 320 is more like the published level speed of the Corsair.

You can physically see the RPM lever move 2-3 more inches down, so if it’s a glitch it’s also been graphically modelled as well. also there the smoke that trails from the airplane once the RPM lever drops further as well.

Ah ok thanks for the advice shall try that when I’m next on DCS.

I think you are right in that when I force the throttle further down with the mouse as described on the video on Hind75s post I can see the smoke which I assume is the burning/steaming water, on external views. Its a shame no keybinds seem to work as a workaround for the time being, hopefully a hotfix will address it.

I now see exactly what you mean, just tried it and yes got over 300kts level flight. I tried mapping a button instead of an axis to increase to maximum RPM but that doesn't work seems as though only the mouse increases your RPM to maximum, Throttle axis seems fine though.

Difficult to see in this video so your saying your axis is not able to take your RPM to maximum?

Tried a mission on Marianas doesn’t seem as though you can set temp lower than 20degrees after flying Saipan to Guam started to fly home got to 20000 ft set everything up as everyone has recommended but got 250-260 kts. Obviously I understand altitude has an impact on TAS. However got my wingman to rtb and he just accelerated away from me. so I guess I’m doing something wrong somewhere. overall though I have to say I am loving this module and loving flying over the PTO in WW2 scenarios. It looks stunning.

Yes beta update. Corsair has been added.

thanks for the update

That’s not the point I’m making. The point I was trying to make is that if you have a shortened deck space due to say parked aircraft and you have to lift of or leave the threshold of the deck at the edge of stalling speed you experience a difference, I experienced it and I feel they have modelled that correctly, with a long runway or a nice long carrier deck yes it’s quite straightforward

This was from say mid deck so as i crossed the threshold of the deck I was closer to stall speed. Just listened to a podcast about the F4U and once you get the aircraft to higher speeds by accounts was quite stable. Say a shore based takeoff or a longer deck run. If your slow and apply full throttle like I did I got the torque and snap roll.

Have you taken off from a carrier yet? reason I say that, I took off from a carrier and went full throttle and it flipped me over into a snap roll and went into the sea. That happened a lot with the Corsair and cost many a life. Next time I tried not with full throttle and with a bit of rudder correction once going off the end of the deck had it under control. I agree with you that on shore based takeoffs it’s fairly simple in fact trimmed nicely it just lifts of the ground by itself. Maybe that’s how she was unfortunately I’ve never flown a Corsair so can’t say for sure?

Corsair added soon?

Started a new build mission, carrier only this time its working fine. Bit puzzled I think something in the conditions or an asset or something in my original mission is causing a bug, trying to pinpoint it but so far haven't found the culprit. Thought it may be wind as I know setting wind speeds effects ILS on Caucasus but doesn't appear to be this. Anyway created a new mission and its ok now so far.