P-51D highflyer checklist

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Hi all

After having played and enjoyed Jane's USAF a long time ago, I decided to get my hands on a stick again and go for DCS.

I went through the training sessions for the P-51D, so I could start the campaign. After some sessions, you get to fly really far and high, and that's where I hit a roadblock: I can't get that thing above 15'000 feet with normal procedures.

First thing I did is to switch to game mode, because every single of the actions below would blow your engine to pieces within no time. This is what I did. Please comment/add, so I can finally go t0 20'000 ft as required by the campaign:

- Carburator air control down (*not* on RAM AIR)

- Carburator pre-heating up (no air pre-heating)

- Throttle on full thrust

- Prop speed on INCREASE (max prop speed, 3000 rpm)

- Supercharger manually on HIGH

In spite of all that, I cannot get past 15'000 ft. According to Wikipedia, the P-51D flies to 12'500m, so about FL 400.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[pete_auau 1,152]

Best to post it  in the dcs  forum under  the P-51 d  section