Flyout - Reciprocating Piston Engines

In this video, we get into the details of how to design these engines as well as how to fit the propellers to them.
Link to calc:
www.desmos.com/calculator/2uc...

[@bmouch1018]

THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED. I'm not sure why KZbin blessed me with this exact video from your channel I haven't seen before right as I opened KZbin, but I've been having difficulty with piston engines in Flyout (despite being able to make them work in other Sims) and this video will help me out so much pls keep doing these tutorials

[@maximpikalev9538]

holy shit you're the actual messiah I've been trying to figure out how piston engines work for so long thank you SO MUCH I've watched you a lot for MSFS tutorials I can't believe you're doing Flyout too now!!! fuck yeaH!!!

[@taylorquigley8662]

Your video saved me from so much headache and explained it so well, BIG thanks!

[@Niskan40]

This channel is a gem! Awesome video and very informative :) I like how you present it too.

[@Opa_Joke]

As an electrician, I absolutely have no idea about the math mumbo jumbo and engine science what not. But GOOD video man.

[@Opusss]

Found this channel on the flyout discord. Can't wait to see more Flyout content.

[@ratherbegliding]

Good revision for my CPL exam next week 😉 🙏

[@C4Cole05]

Correction at 5:51, an I6 is a very smooth engine, as I6s have perfect primary and pretty ok secondary balance. The primary balance of an engine is from the pistons going up and down, in an I3, all the cylinders are at different points in the stroke, with the back and front cylinders being opposite to eachother, this makes the engine rock back and forth violently without counterweight magic. An I3 has really bad primary balance. Secondary balance is due to weird forces put on the engine, some counterweight stuff, with triangles stuff, which combines to make basically every engine a vibrating mess without some balancing. Which is why something like a flat plane I4, which seem to have perfect balance, still need balance shafts and harmonic balancers. The I6 due to its perfect primary balance and good secondary balance, is extremely smooth without the need for balancing shafts or harmonic balancers. Which is why it crops up so often in heavy duty applications. A V12 is just 2 I6s bolted together so it's even more balanced(60 degree V angles specifically). In terms of power pulses, more cylinders are more better, but for smooth operation an I6 and it's derivatives are king. There is a video on the Driving4Answers KZbin channel which explains engine balance much better than I ever could(I may have also misremembered some stuff). Tldr: I6s are super smooth in operation, but more cylinders would give smoother power pulses, even if they wouldn't be as balanced in operation.

[@admiralobvious]

Hey, I'm one of the "senior instructors" on the discord, would you mind if we posted this series to the guides section of the server? The whole series I've seen so far is excellent and shows all the tuning steps that a new user should be looking at.

[@yaboiminecraff]

I got a 1 piston engine to produce 1200 kw by cooling the manifold down to 141 kelvin and used it to make a small car go 140ms

[@angelomammetti1846]

I'm new to the game, how you cool the manifold pressure? With radiator s/ intercoolers?

[@yaboiminecraff]

@@angelomammetti1846 have a radiator set to intercooler that is selected for your engine the bigger the intercooler the more cooling up to a limit of your heat production and your velocity

[@angelomammetti1846]

​@@yaboiminecraffthank you very much

[@yaboiminecraff]

@@angelomammetti1846 if u have a discord ill send you my allison 1710 that makes 8500 kw

[@joespeed1952]

Awesome video! Will definitely help with my Glasair and Piper Comanche projects!

[@qwezil9476]

super helpful, taught me everything!

[@kiprassereika9912]

At first i thought this was Matt Wagner speaking :D iykyk

[@ZZPxFTW]

I love flyout so far, but my biggest gripe is definitely the scale of the engines is WAY too small for the "paper" displacement. You can shove a 28-30 liter engine in a TINY airframe and it just breaks what is otherwise a fairly decent "based in reality" sandbox game.

[@russellmillett5642]

The horizontally opposed engine is one of the most common engines in GA, and they don't just have it as a standard option??? Seems silly to have to manually do it with two separate inline cylinder stacks...

[@themecoptera9258]

Can you explain the intercooler and the turbo component?

[@yaboiminecraff]

The intercooler makes the air going into the engine Cooper allowing you to make more power the cooler the better for power but you have more weight turbo and super chargers gives you more air when at altitude so your engine doesn't gasp for air

[@themecoptera9258]

@@yaboiminecraff so the intercooler allows for more boost without knocking or is it just a straight increase in power? Also the turbo component doesn’t seem to be needed for the engine to have a turbocharger so I’m not sure what the component itself is for.

[@yaboiminecraff]

@@themecoptera9258 irl, it allows you to have more air since it's colder but in game it just increases the power and not the boost much

[@themecoptera9258]

@@yaboiminecraff sorry, I meant compression not boost.

[@yaboiminecraff]

@@themecoptera9258 it won't effect compression since that has a set limit by the piston what the boost does is shove a lot of air into your engine which allows you to shove even more fuel in allowing that controlled explosion to be insanely powerful

[@drysnow123]

the thing is why is my plane still way too slow

[@LrrBrr-lb3iw]

WTF is going on?

[@DarkstarthenightwingSUBSCRIBE]

35:43 correction, the big thing about superchargers is that delicious whine