I just got back into flight sims after a long hiatus and started up again with Cliffs of Dover and the TF patches. So far I am very impressed. I started with some basic flight with the Hurricane DH5-20; its controls and performance seem to make it a good aircraft to train on and learn a bit of CLOD before heading into the campaigns and online.
I have three questions:
1. The flight manual on the TF wiki states that lean fuel mixture is only used at low RPM and low boost. But the mixture lever in the cockpit looks to have a catch that prevents it from moving to lean when the throttle is set back, so the mixture can only be pushed to lean when the throttle is set to higher boosts--the opposite of what I would expect based on the manual. And indeed the labeling in the cockpit has the rearward position for mixture as rich and forward as lean. Can anyone explain this? I assume the cockpit is labeled correctly and the CEM lever positions are full down M is rich and full up M is lean, correct?
2. When flying up to ~10K feet the Hurricane starts to take engine damage with the radiator full open and temps initially normal and pitch set to course. Leaning the mixture as I approach seemed to prevent this the last time I tried. Has anyone else experienced this? The unexpected damage was surprising behaviour and the manual didn't seem to have anything regarding this. I was under the impression that leaning for the most part is unnecessary in the Hurricane.
3. I noticed after some sharper maneuvers that the artificial horizon in the hurricane gets stuck to the side. Is this normal behaviour? Is there a way to reset the horizon? Does it resettle have extended level flight?
Thanks for any help.
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