Any way to disable engine retart?

[Frogfoot1606687865]

Hi, last night i was flying a mission and got some 'Shilka damage' to the both engines, which necessitated a shut down of the right hand one. No Problem Right throttle quadrant to shutdown. Problem solved, until I realised that the Warthog hotas is a pain in the but when one throttle is forward and one is back, it makes intuitive control of the buttons and hats impossible. So I was trying to find a way to keep the RH engine shut down but keep the throttles together. I ended up switching 'Eng Oper' to 'Motor' for the shut down engine. This seemed to stop it from attempting to relight however later on, on the flight home I had a LH gen failure so operating on only batteries I fired up the APU, this caused the RH engine to spool (but no ignition)

 

What would the proper procedure be for this scenario? Simply keep the dead engine throttle at the 'off' position and put up with the ergonomic nightmare?

 

Cheers

Tom

[Eddie]

What would the proper procedure be for this scenario? Simply keep the dead engine throttle at the 'off' position and put up with the ergonomic nightmare?

 

Yep, you've got it.

[PhoenixBvo]

Or you could make a custom profile for the TM Warthog. The shutdown position is a button in the TM Target GUI which you can map to a keyboard key. Make this mapping depend on another switch position and you could get the behaviour you're looking for. Problem though is the Target software combines both controllers and reassigns the switches to other DirectX keys leaving a lot without DirectX key assignment at all, reason being that Windows doesn't support that number of switches on one controller. So, you'll have to assign a lot of keyboard commands to the Warthog and remap the functions in DCS as well. It's at least an evening work, but I did it and it pays off because you get the ability to put in some custom commands such as TrackIR and Teamspeak.

[Furia]

The throtle possition is the least of your troubles when you have one engine down due enemy fire, you lost the engine, you lost one hydraulic system and who know what else.

It is time to haul ass from there, so you surely do not need many of the buttons on the right hand throttle, unless of course you plan to keep shooting and fighting with just one engine and a crippled aircraft

Anyway, as Eddie mentioned, this is the way it works on the real life.

[nomdeplume]

Move the throttle to the idle position, then use the keyboard binding to shut down the engine (RAlt+End for left engine, RCtrl+End for right engine). After that you can move the physical throttle as much as you like and the in-game throttle will remain in the off position.

[PhoenixBvo]

Yes, That would be the easy way of course :)