Author Topic: P38 Duel Throttle?  (Read 984 times)

Offline Ack-Ack

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Re: P38 Duel Throttle?
« Reply #15 on: October 13, 2008, 08:08:50 PM »
I do disagree with AKAK on one point, I don't see much of a difference in chopping both throttles before reapplying. Most of the time, if I cut one engine and I need to reapply fast I will work through it with rudder and opposing engine controls. Maybe it was done in the real thing, but I don't see a benefit to doing it within AH. It just takes a little while to learn to recover quickly so you don't end up like McGuire.


I agree that AH doesn't really model the asymetric power induced spins that happened in real life, the only time I've ever gotten into an asysemtric power induced spin is when in the middle of a maneuver I had an engine shot out and the resulting loss of power caused me to enter into a spin.  I was just mentioning what the P-38 flight manual says about throttling down one engine and then throttling it back up.


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