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![]() Throttle up at low pitch, and the engine's RPM will increase until the resistance of the air beating the propeller matches the engine's power. High pitch gets you high velocity, but also high resistance. Pitch we discussed - it's the "gear" of your propeller. Cut back on fuel, on the engine will work less hard. Add more fuel, and the engine will work harder. Throttle is just that - how much fuel is going to the engine. In most internal combustion airplanes you'll have (sets of) three levers from left to right: throttle, pitch, mixture. The problem with KSP's control model is that effectively you control RPM, not throttle. Should you ever turn down the rpm on your engine while flying, or should you change your speed only with blade pitch? Also, assuming that you do change engine rpm, how do pilots change their speed? Do they have two throttles or is it automated in some way. I also have another question: how should you fly a propeller plane in ksp. Changing blade pitch appears to change the speed just like changing years on a bike, not the rate of acceleration like pedaling harder. Thanks for the analogy, that is what flying a plane in ksp feels like. Of course, engine power also needs to be adjusted to match, because the power that the propeller puts into the air has to come from somewhere. The reason for this is because tip speed is an extremely important design parameter, and it's easier to design the propeller for constant tip speed than to avoid variable pitch. Very simple setups change rotational speed, but other than that propellers are usually run at constant speed and change the amount of power they put into the air by changing pitch. My best guess as to why this is not true is that ksp's physics engine cannot simulate rpm's high enough for propellers to throttle by changing rpm like my drone appears to.Īctually, most propellers do use blade pitch. This is also how planes behave in simulators like real flight 9. Also, in rl I have flown drones that can definitely throttle and definitely don't have pitching propellers. ![]() I have seen many things propeller planes and most don't appear to have propellers that can change pitch. My question is how do propellers throttle? I can't imagine they use blade pitch like in ksp. This is a simple question, but I know very little about how these things work. ![]()
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