As you can see below, my cowl flaps are full open, my RPM in a healthy range, and my manifold pressure is low. Despite this, the Cyl temp is still in yellow, almost red. I’ve watched tutorials on YouTube and can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong since other players are in the green with similar settings. Also, I’m flying in Alaska, so heat shouldn’t be too big of a problem.
I’m at 20,000 feet and have tried with intercooler shutters and both settings of superchargers, but can’t see any difference in temp.
You could try enriching the fuel mixture.
A slight excess of fuel does carry away heat.
I’ll give this a try, thanks! I’ve got it set to auto rich but I’ll see if full rich makes a difference
You may find an intermediate slightly rich setting works best, full rich at altitude may be too much and flood the engine.
The Blackbird Sim Corsair has preset mixture positions. Off the top of my head, it’s something like “full lean”, “auto lean”, “auto rich” and “full rich.” I think I’ve kept it on auto rich this whole time so I’ll try messing with it. My (likely flawed) understanding is that we go full rich on start up, then auto rich for everything else. Then you add Super Charger’s first position around 12,000 and second position at 20,000.
But clearly I’m doing something wrong since other videos show the cyl head temp in the green!
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Ok, I figured it out and have now run into a new problem… I needed to be using Auto Lean and a lower RPM setting. Once I pick up speed after climb, the cyl head temp lowers pretty quickly. The problem is that my oil temp gets dangerously low as well, even with oil cooling off and cowl flaps closed. So I’m struggling to keep cyl and oil temp balanced!!
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