[Aussie Pilot]

Good afternoon Aussie Pilot not much help from me old chap im afraid just a question ?
Aussie Pilot location London are you on holiday ??? :lol:
Just kidding the real question is Do You really use mixture control and does it really make a difference ?

G'day, no I'm living here for a while, nearly a year now and will go home later this year. My wife is from London so we are doing the family thing before the kids start school next year back home.

Well I have only just got my throttle quadrant so am still trying to set it up, but the games limitations in this area are making it a challange.
I think as far as combat goes you wouldn't really use your mixture to much. If your at high altitude you would lean it a bit but at lower heights where we always seem to end up fighting you would probably have it on full rich anyway.

I have my pilots licence in real life but don't get to fly much anymore...marrige and kids etc...lol. so my sim flying kind of fills the gap. Therefore i am trying to keep it as real as possible but find the non combat sims boring.
As for IL-2 the main advanges you would get with manual control of mixture etc would be saving your fuel and engine life especially when your trying to limp home a bit shot up. Many a time i spent too long fighting and then ran out of fuel on the way back to the carrier because i didn't have proper mixture control.

BUT in saying this i am still learning about this sim, maybe these planes didn't have full mixture control, or maybe they did have auto control, or even with the complexe engine management turned off you may still be getting the best mixture setting anyway. It's hard to say, perhaps some with more knowledge of the game may know.
At the end of the day i'd like to manage it for the realism involved as well.