Is this anyway to fly a Lagg?

[Uriah]

I've been messing around with prop pitch and throttle in the Lagg-3 trying to put to good use what others are telling me about RPM and prop pitch and throttle.

 

So I am flying around in the Lagg-3 in full real except for pilot visual aids and warmed up engine and autopilot.  After taking off I decide to set it to autopilot.  I notice the autopilot moved the throttle and prop pitch levers together as if they were tied together.  I think this rather odd.  Does anybody fly that way?

[BeastyBaiter]

I don't. In MP today I would always set for 2500-2600 RPM and move the throttle freely. I do tie the oil and water radiators to the same wheel, but that's different.

[Finkeren]

Ideally you would adjust throttle and rpm during maneuvering to keep airspeed constant, but in reality noone does that in a flight sim.

 

Computer AI has a much easier time making hundreds of tiny adjustments all the time.

[Matt]

For landing and take off, I would leave RPM to max and adjust airspeed with the throttle.

 

During combat, I would rather adjust the speed with the RPM lever and keep the throttle at max. Reason being, that if you throttle down and then back up, the constant speed propeller needs some time to adjust and it can happen, that RPM gets too high for a short period of time before the prop pitch gets set to the maximum 2700 RPM. Also running maximum RPM and low throttle causes more drag than low RPM and maximum throttle (the engine doesn't suffer damage in this case, at least not yet).

 

Overall, if you don't make sudden adjustments, using both RPM and throttle lever at the same time works just fine (later variant Yaks had the levers right next to each other to allow just that).

[Uriah]

Interesting Matt.  Based on that it might be better to use the throttle on the joystick for the RPM/prop pitch and use some other lever or keys for throttle.

[Uriah]

I was flying in multiplayer today under NORMAL setting and also EXPERT.  In NORMAL when you move the throttle back and forth the prop pitch is tied to it just as I noticed when switching to AUTOPILOT in the first  post oft this thread.  Which looking at what is chosen as NORMAL by the developers should be expected.   I wonder if I could then in EXPERT level havethe prop pitch and throttle tied together by using the key binding values for the same.

[Uriah]

Well, it IS a good way to fly a Lagg!  I was chatting with ATAG_Snapper over on CoD and he inspired me to try something out.  I have a CH Throttle Quadrant and so I set the two left most levers to Prop Pitch and Throttle.  I can now use and control both with one hand and even move them in different directions at the same   I was shocked at how much more control and response I was getting out of the Lagg-3.  The speed I was getting out of so little throttle!

[dburne]

Well, it IS a good way to fly a Lagg!  I was chatting with ATAG_Snapper over on CoD and he inspired me to try something out.  I have a CH Throttle Quadrant and so I set the two left most levers to Prop Pitch and Throttle.  I can now use and control both with one hand and even move them in different directions at the same   I was shocked at how much more control and response I was getting out of the Lagg-3.  The speed I was getting out of so little throttle!

 

Interesting, I have the CH Quadrant as well to go along with my Warthog setup, the same as Snapper - and he certainly knows his stuff.

I have prop pitch, rads, and trim on the CH , did not even think about trying the throttle on it as well beside the prop pitch...

I don't know though I really like using the my Warthog's throttle though.

Edited March 27, 2014 by dburnette