Settled in the climb here with the S-Tec Fifty-Five doing all the work in its Altitude Aquire mode. With this very cold atmosphere I can maintain that 1400 fpm climb all the way to FL200. The climb power is at Full Throttle with the RPM trimmed carefully back to 2400. I use the Auto Rich setting for the mixture up to 10,000 feet then I change to Auto Lean. Also at 10,000 feet on a warm day I would reduce the climb rate to 1200 fpm.
I just love this picture as I close towards the localiser at about 90 degrees.
A more detailed sequence can be seen by clicking on this address:-
No, it is not a glow...It is a flickering blue flame in the end of each of the three exhaust pipes...Since they flicker it is rare to see any of them in a screenshot, so two showing at once is just a coincidence. If anyone here has ever flown a piston engined aircraft at night with a view of the exhaust pipe then you will know that those blue flames are extremely realistic at night...However, they are invisible at daylight so I have made it so that you can have them off in the daytime by linking them to the Tail Beacon light.
My first real life view of these flames was in a Harvard when doing my night flying training at RAF Feltwell in 1952...Frightening :o
impgine how much comes out of the 3" flex exhaust on an airboat ... glowing bright red and blue flame
it's like looking at a hypnotists' swinging watch.
forthbridge wrote:Cheers Peter. I sometimes think 'flames' look unrealistic in FS - but shot 4 in your link looks the business :flying:
Yes, that one is even more lucky...All three visible!! Most shots get none at all as you can see from the others :flying:
BTW...It took me several hours to get those flames positioned exactly. Even now I wonder if I should have poked them very slightly further up the pipes
airboatr wrote:impgine how much comes out of the 3" flex exhaust on an airboat ... glowing bright red and blue flame
it's like looking at a hypnotists' swinging watch.
I think that might be about the same as the collected exhausts from the radial cylinders of the Harvard's Pratt & Whitney Wasp's cylinders passing out of the deflector nozzle at the end of the pipe over the starboard wing root...I think that was about 4 inches in diameter...Anyway, it was pretty awe inspiring in the dark
