Engine Tweak, under Magnitude update??

[SmirkingGerbil]

P-47 listed as engine power was modified, but it is listed under the Christen Eagle from today's update notes:

 

DCS Christen Eagle II by Magnitude 3

Fixed bright lights in the cockpit

Yaw damping tuned

Correction Cx0

P-47 motor power tweak

Fixed wrong caption of canopy jettison tooltip

Propeller looks incorrect in the runway spotlight

[Thunderchief2000]

P-47 listed as engine power was modified, but it is listed under the Christen Eagle from today's update notes:

 

DCS Christen Eagle II by Magnitude 3

Fixed bright lights in the cockpit

Yaw damping tuned

Correction Cx0

P-47 motor power tweak

Fixed wrong caption of canopy jettison tooltip

Propeller looks incorrect in the runway spotlight

 

Yep, seems to be correct too, I’m getting a measurable increase in speed at both sealevel and altitude. +10mph ish if I’m not mistaken.

[SmirkingGerbil]

Yep, seems to be correct too, I’m getting a measurable increase in speed at both sealevel and altitude. +10mph ish if I’m not mistaken.

 

Good, I am not crazy, she was more responsive, and I was burning pretty good speed at altitude. Hit (I think) 31,000 feet ish, and man this thing was burning hard. Had to pull back on boost a couple time to keep from over revving.

 

In some dogfight scenarios, I was either able to chase down (Anton) or not get left in the dust and pursue (BfK) this thing is amazing.

[Voyager]

So it looks like the engine boosts to 64" of MP now, though the WI pat of the system is not yet modeled.

 

As I understand it, late model planes would automatically engage WI when the boost went past a certain point. What I'd seen previously was, when you pushed past around 52", the boost would crash, and you'd have to pull back to around the 52" area.

 

So, the power is there, but the assorted management is not, yet.

[Enduro14]

Would hope it goes to 70 with water injection. Especially at 23000ft and turbo rpm of 18,250

Edited June 11, 2020 by Enduro14

[Voyager]

Would hope it goes to 70 with water injection. Especially at 23000ft and turbo rpm of 18,250

 

I would not expect that for this version. This version appears to be the one rated for 130 octane fuel, and those were only rated for up to 64" at 2700rpm.

 

While there were a couple of pilots who ran them at 70", as there were a lot of reasons that I've heard it never was standardized on the D models. Additional risk of detonation, and heat load were the main ones. And the only pilot I'm aware of who did that also had to modify the turbo installion as well.

 

Updating everything to 64" was, as I understand it, just a matter of fueling up with 130+ octane, changing the boost limiter and convincing the AF brass that it worked and wouldn't had planes losing engines left and right. Basically free power, if you don't count the paperwork bonanaza. 70"+ was more risky and more involved.

[SmirkingGerbil]

I would not expect that for this version. This version appears to be the one rated for 130 octane fuel, and those were only rated for up to 64" at 2700rpm.

 

While there were a couple of pilots who ran them at 70", as there were a lot of reasons that I've heard it never was standardized on the D models. Additional risk of detonation, and heat load were the main ones. And the only pilot I'm aware of who did that also had to modify the turbo installion as well.

 

Updating everything to 64" was, as I understand it, just a matter of fueling up with 130+ octane, changing the boost limiter and convincing the AF brass that it worked and wouldn't had planes losing engines left and right. Basically free power, if you don't count the paperwork bonanaza. 70"+ was more risky and more involved.

 

All from memory right now, but as I started getting into the 29K feet range, I had to pull the boost lever back a bit a few times. Was hitting 20K RPM and holding it for Turbo. I was pulling back on prop speed and keeping it right around 2300 RPM, but could have sworn I was a tad over 60". I will check again later today.