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Large 'flat spot' in throttle travel?


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A few people have brought this up, is it gonna get looked at? You reach 100% RPM at about 40-50% of the HOTAS throttle travel, and it stays there up to about 2/3 to 3/4 of the travel, and the rest, of course, is afterburner.

So, there's a large dead spot between full Mil power and the beginning of the AB range that does nothing.

 

 

Supposed to be like this, or something to tidy up in the future?

 

 

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Same, I was just mucking around with the mig29 and was wondering what was going on with the throttle. For me it was like most of the range sat the engine around 80% RPM and then the last bit of throttle travel put it into afterburner. Unless of course, that's what it is supposed to be like?

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I think for example warthog users maybe they were trying to make it easier to control the stages of the afterburner. I think the intent was to have your power from idle to full mil happen quickly so there’s space to separate the first AB stage which happens when you hit the detent, and the next stage over the detent, and the last at max travel. Important for fuel, the first AB stage IMHO is the most useful

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All discussion aside, it still sucks to have a big dead spot in the throttle travel from full Mil to first afterburning stage. It makes throttle control too vague.

 

 

A very small range of throttle travel between full Mil and low AB would be best--just the way it was done on the Su-27. The dead spot on the MiG-29 is far too large.

 

 

 

Please ED, iron this out! :)

 

 

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As soo many other things that should have been fixed/added by ED, a simple AB "set" like in Falcon 4.0 would work wonders in DCS.

 

But yeah, searched for an easy fix for the throttle, as the AG kicks in at 40% or thereabouts... sheesh...

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As soo many other things that should have been fixed/added by ED, a simple AB "set" like in Falcon 4.0 would work wonders in DCS.

 

But yeah, searched for an easy fix for the throttle, as the AG kicks in at 40% or thereabouts... sheesh...

I agree, I'd *love* an AB set function for all the aircraft that have AB. Why it's not there I don't know.

Anyway, I try to avoid using hardware mods to my HOTAS just to iron out a shortcoming in one module--especially when I have to undo it to fly other ones :)

 

 

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