Control profiles for F-14 A & B

[kotor633]

Hello,

Is it actually planned by HB to implement separate control profiles for the F-14 A & B? At least for operating the engines. Since these are 2 different engines. Or am I wrong? 

[DSplayer]

I don’t think there enough differences in terms of controls for a completely new profile thing. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that is exclusive to the A is the Mid-compression bypass circuit breaker. 

[draconus]

They were separate at first and then they were combined because it did not make much sense. The only cockpit differences:

http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/cockpit.html#asym-limiter-engine-mode-select-f-14b-only

http://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/cockpit.html#mid-compression-bypass-test-panel-f-14a-only

and their bindings plus what DSplayer said are exclusive and just won't work on the other variant.

[kotor633]

Hi, thanks for the feedback. But I guess I wasn't precise with what I was getting at. I'm mainly concerned with the engine. The A has about 22,000 pounds of thrust, the B twice as much. In addition, the A has 5 different afterburner levels, which the B is missing. There was the following page:
https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/153959-tm-warthog-ab-detent-curve/
For the B variant, I can create a user profile here. But I cannot imagine that this can be transferred 1: 1 to the A variant. Shouldn't there be at least 2 separate options for profile setting here? 

Edited August 10, 2021 by kotor633

[Spartan111sqn]

What surprise me is that B also has the same noozle indicator also for zone5 even if there is no zone5 in  the B...

Edited August 10, 2021 by Spartan111sqn

[draconus]

On 8/10/2021 at 11:05 AM, kotor633 said:

The A has about 22,000 pounds of thrust, the B twice as much.
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For the B variant, I can create a user profile here. But I cannot imagine that this can be transferred 1: 1 to the A variant. Shouldn't there be at least 2 separate options for profile setting here?

B with 28,200 lbf of thrust/engine is far from twice.

Last time I checked the AB point on the throttle is in the same place in the A and B so no different profile is needed.

 

On 8/10/2021 at 11:14 AM, Spartan111sqn said:

What surprise me is that B also has the same noozle indicator also for zone5 even if there is no zone5 in  the B...

The B should probably have 0-10 indicator but it's about percent of opening so functionality is the same.

Edited August 19, 2021 by draconus

[Spartan111sqn]

5 hours ago, draconus said:

B with 28,200 lbf of thrust/engine is far from twice.

Last time I checked the AB point on the throttle is in the same place in the A and B so no different profile is needed.

 

The B should probably have 0-10 indicator but it's about percent of opening so functionality is the same.

 

Thanks, yes i suppose the info is the same but i expect different indicator

[kotor633]

Oops ... yeah, I guess I didn't do the right thing ... Ok, the B has 28,200 pounds of thrust. I don't quite understand that with the indicator. But I take from draconus statement that the difference is so small / fine that the effort to provide 2 separate profiles for A & B would not be worthwhile for HB. 

 

Edited August 20, 2021 by kotor633