Take a look at the ‘Radio Facilities USA 1944’ file in the B 247D documentation folder. It shows ‘airway safe altitude levels’ up to at least 15,000 ft in some places, possibly more. Standards were different back then, and they had to get over the Rockies.
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So, I’m not alone with the engines at 400-500F! And I made all kind of settings, even with an empty Community folder…
I would be curious to know what RPM settings you are cruising at as well.
Right, but it’s turbocharged and it shouldn’t need so much changes, I usually set it as the manual says, anyway it doesn’t help leaning it in order to keep cylinders heat lower.
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Thanks, Byemoonmen.
Your post made me look at a couple of things and I have now solved it.
Yes, I was using the right mouse button to move around but the problem was that I had the option “CLOSE” set under General Options: Cameras: Cockpit Camera Selection. Setting that back to “WIDE ANGLE” gives me the same view that you have. Thanks for being the catalyst that helped me fix it! (useful video by the way…)
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I am not sure if we are talking about the same things here. Lowering the engine RPM, by reducing the prop levers and thus increasing prop pitch which will result in a lower RPM for a given manifold pressure, will normally result in lower cylinder temperatures.
Leaning the mixture will result in higher cylinder temps because you are lowering the amount of fuel in the mixture. That fuel would otherwise help to lower cylinder temps. It might be worth a shot to fly at a lower engine RPM setting and see if that helps your cylinder temps and thus reduces the amount of engine failures.
I have only one thing to say about that: hypoxemia.
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Ops, sorry, my fault: I read RPM and I thought “MIXTURE”… I don’t understand why… maybe I was yearning to discover a fix for that issue 
. Yes of course I lowered the RPM but the temp didn’t change at all.
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Wow. That is really strange and I find it very interesting that we can all fly the same aircraft and have very different outcomes! Hopefully you can find out the cause and get to enjoy some stress-free flying!
I’ve been in the air over Teeterboro for an hour trying to do the tutorial radio navigation flight and I can’t for the life of me get anything out of the radio. Not a single beep and I’ve been all over the frequency range. All fuses look okay. I don’t have a clue.
You did flick the switch “c.w.” to “on” on the radio panel? And you turned the volume up?
Also checked audio sliders in msfs?
Can you get radio stations playing (with c.w. off…)?
Yes on the “CW”
Volume is up
No on the radio stations.
I have heard the beep in prior flights but now that I want it it’s nowhere to be found. I’m going to land and retry.
Avionics master ON?
Yes. Well I think so. The bus 1 switch on my Alpha turns on the Radio Power button in the cockpit so I assume that’s what you’re calling Avionics. I don’t see any specific Avionics switch anywhere in the cockpit. I’m not doing anything (that I am aware) differently than how I’ve been flying but for whatever reason I still have no radio after even after a restart of the flight. Maybe I need to exit the sim and start the whole process over. Will try that later. Thanks for the replies.
Ok so you need power 1) battery ON, 2) Avionics master 3) Radio unit power on.
Also, all fuses must be good (both fuse boxes) and enough power in battery or alternators providing power.
Avionics master is here:
Yes to all. Battery, Master Avionics (Radio Power) and Radio On (overhead) and as far as I can tell all fuses appear good. I’ll try again later. Thanks again for the replies.
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Remember due to state saving the position of switches in the cockpit does not always correlate to where the sim thinks they are set. If in doubt always click the switch off and on again to be sure.
I know you said all switches are on but just in case your hardware is linked to the wrong buttons:
I had the same issue which was driving me crazy… then I realised I was doing my flights without the master power red pullswitch being on. The one above the throttles. Try using that instead of hardware just to see if your assignments are correct. I only noticed this when it started getting dark and my lights weren’t helping in the struggle to work the radio!
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Yes, for some reason I see a lot of people missing this important button.
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Everytime I do not complete a flight that ends with a Cold&dark checklist, I always make sure that on the next startup, i gotta flip ALL switches TWICE to reset them even if they appear in the OFF state.
I’m okay with this. You reap what you sow lol.