JP-4 Posted September 16, 2022 Posted September 16, 2022 I finally received my Virpil CM3 throttle yesterday and I've been messing around with the physical detent sets. I decided to settle on the Warthog mil/afterburn detent (whatever you want to call it) on the high end and no detent on the low end. I'm going to use a button assignment to handle L and R cutoffs. This leaves me with essentially a 0-75% of actual range in the throttle giving me 0-100% mil power before the detent and a small range for min to full afterburner after the detent, something like 83%-100% on the actual throttle. This works beautifully for air craft that actually have afterburners (F-14, F-15, F-16, F/A-18, etc., etc.). What I'm trying to do is setup custom curves for aircraft that either have no afterburner or have piston engines (A-10, P-51, F-86, etc., etc.). The goal is to get 100% throttle out of these engines without passing over the afterburner detent, 0-75% of actual range on the throttle. So I've setup a custom curve to max out power at roughly 75% of actual throttle range. (see graphic - please note that I'm using inverted slider user curve because that's the way DCS sees my throttle movement...I'll deal with it later). My understanding of the curve (ignoring the slight top deviation that I can't get rid of) is I should get 100% power when the throttle is physically around 75% (where the red dot is on the curve) and any movement past this point shouldn't result in any increased power input. However, what I'm getting on any of these aircraft (A-10, P-51, F-86, etc., etc.) is I still don't get full power until after I move past the afterburner detent, roughly 83%-100% of physical throttle movement. Do I understand this incorrectly, or is this a bug?
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