Sudden loss of power

Hi

I am a real life C152 Student pilot and have a decent understanding of flight theory etc! I have used DCS for many years!

I am watching all gauges and temps and without doing anything rash at cruise speeds BANG engine pops and it’s belly landing or bail!!

Any advice on what I’m doing wrong!

Thanks

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What manifold pressure, prop' pitch/RPM settings are you running, for how long and so on, because there's a lot of power there, but not necessarily good to be gunning it at length.

As a rule of thumb, for general cruising; keep the manifold and engine RPM in the green bands, what are called the operating ranges, keep a close eye on the temperatures and pressures (as you know you probably heard this already; the Ts and Ps), because this is modelled with the P-51, it harms the engine if you operate the engine for prolonged periods of time outside those operating ranges, even if the Ts&Ps look okay, operating outside those green bands is okay for take-off, or ACM etc, but for matters of seconds.

I found some figures from an actual P-51 manual;

Max continuous;

• engine RPM: 2700
  
• MP: 46
  

I haven't checked, but there should be a plaque in the 'pit somewhere with some more operating information, those figures are probably true for the P-51 modelled in DCS and will also coincide with the green operating bands on the gauges.