felixx75

Mixture: Lever aft-> Cut Off Lever middle position -> Auto Lean Lever forward position -> Auto Rich It sounds to me as if you have swapped the Mixture positions. Make sure you start in the cut off potision (lever aft). As soon as the engine starts, the mixture goes into the full forward or Auto Rich position. (As I'm not at my PC I can't watch the replay, sorry)

The tail wheel behaves as if it is spring-loaded and does not rotate freely... It always wants to return to the centre position.

Wich gear bug?

Aft position = Cut Off Middle position = Auto Lean Forward position = Auto Rich

That sounds absolutely plausible

This might be similar to the afterburner button in the F-18, or the wep button in the P-51 As I said, I don't know if it works properly, but it's definitely explainable. The fact that there is a binding for it will probably have a similar reason why, for example, the F-18 has an afterburner button, or why the P-51 has a wep button.

However, I assume that the water injection actually works, whether it is correct or not is of course not for me to judge. Water injection is activated by pushing the throttle all the way forward. There is an animated detent in our F4U, which corresponds to the Mil Power (about 53 MP @2700 RPM). If you now go over this detent and push the throttle full forward (the safety wire is unfortunately not animated and always cut) you get exactly the 57.5-60 MP, depending on the altitude @2700 RPM, which corresponds to WEP. My understanding is that mil power + water injection = WEP. Therefore, I assume that water injection is implemented and working.

This plate is almost certainly the wrong one, as it shows the data and the designation for the engine without water injection. But since we have an f4u-1d, our engine has water injection. Therefore, the table I posted above should be the correct one.

Full forward -> Auto Rich Middle-> Auto Lean

Sry, that's the wrong one. This is the version without water injection. This is the right one:

I had also seen this in the keybindings and dismissed it as a leftover and ignored it

@Jenrick It's one thing whether you have a joystick with or without an extension, or whether you want an autopilot in a warbird in a simulation that says it has the highest standards in terms of simulation. Why no automatic engine management, or even better, no engine management at all? Just set the lever to full throttle and have fun? It's just work and distracts from flying, automatic carrier landing would also be great. Where do you start and where do you stop, why is one ok but not the other? You see so many discussions about how a flight model supposedly deviates by 1 or 2% from some tables, which is an absolute NoGo, but an autopilot is great... ridiculous. But it is already known that this autopilot should not actually be included in the release version, as it was used for development purposes. Let's see if it's still there after the next patch. As long as an (in my opinion nonsensical) autopilot can be switched off on MP servers, I don't really care, but it's still very, very funny that realism is no longer so important when it supposedly makes things easier. But I've said what I had to say and I'm closing the topic for me.

I haven't noticed any difference in temperature between Auto Rich and Auto Lean so far, as temperature management is still WIP anyway. But when the engine is simulated accordingly, I stick to the recommended specifications and then also use Auto Lean for everything except take-off and landing.

I'm pretty sure that the plate in the cockpit is wrong. The F4U-1D has water injection and therefore "Auto Lean" is always used except for take-off (and landing).

Yes, I had already noticed that. So that's either a wrong board, or we don't have an F4U-1D at all... Because all D's had water injection and the table R-2800-8W shows the data for the version with water injection, but the label shows values without. In the end, only a Dev can really clear this up. @-Rudel-

That is simply not possible. But it doesn't seem to have stopped anyone from successfully flying warbirds on MP servers so far. As soon as it becomes generally known that the F4U has a (dev) autopilot, many will be happy and many others will complain that it is unfair to others on MP servers, which I can absolutely understand. If there is then an option to disable it on MP servers, most servers will disable the autopilot for the F4U and you will be back to your old problem (unless of course you only fly on your own servers or MP missions you have created yourself).

As I said, pause is your friend. If the desired option to disable the autopilot for MP servers comes about, an autopilot will certainly not be available there in most cases either way. So your argument is not really conclusive. Since it has already been said that the autopilot should not actually be included in the release version, I assume that it will disappear again with the patch that is sure to come soon.

What do the textures have to do with it...? Only the F4U-1A (B = British 1A ,C = A but with 20mm cannons) had no water injection. The F4U-1D had water injection. In the picture you can see the indicator light I described... It's just in the middle of the dashboard, you can easily overlook it...

The DCS community is funny. If the color of a decal doesn't match the original, then there's something going on... But an autopilot for a warbird is ok...

How about simply pausing the simulator for such a case? The DCS community is funny. If the color of a decal doesn't match the original, then there's something going on... But an autopilot for a warbird is ok...

This - the "W" stands for "Water Injection"

However, your reference video is not particularly suitable, as modern instruments are installed there...

The manifold pressure at the appropriate altitude would have been important. Because you could use this to see whether the water injection is working or not. https://forum.dcs.world/topic/375234-engine-poweraircraft-speed/page/4/#findComment-5662242

What were your engine settings at that time? Manifold, blower, altitude,...? This is clearly not true, as Saxman has triggered the 3 minute warning light (see the post below yours). I.e. water injection is implemented, but the question is whether it works properly.