'Blip Switch'

[Motherland]

It would be nice if we could map a button that would allow us to turn off our engine as long as we held it down, or turn on the engine as long as we held it down if the engine was already on... the engine toggle button is kind of difficult to use for this purpose.

[SIK1]

I have one of the buttons on my throttle mapped to the "E" key. It's not difficult to use at all, just tap it once engine off tap it again engine on. 

[Fianna40]

I'm new, so I'll bite. Why would you want to shut off your engine, except for the end of a mission?

[SIK1]

In WW2 planes I use it to start the engine too. I spawn on the runway with the engine off.
In WW1 it's used a little more in the radial engined planes.

[lyric1]

I'm new, so I'll bite. Why would you want to shut off your engine, except for the end of a mission?

Some people will kill the engine & glide in on you & you won't hear them until it's to late.

Personally I don't think it works but others swear by it.

[Motherland]

Some people will kill the engine & glide in on you & you won't hear them until it's to late.

Personally I don't think it works but others swear by it.

Not what I was thinking of, but...

Rotary engined WWI planes such as the Dr 1 and the Camel suffer from pretty bad torque issues, not to mention they had no 'real' throttles. Pilots used to cycle on and off the engine to control their airspeed using a blip switch.

I have the engine mapped to my throttle but it's pretty tedious to use the toggle.

[SIK1]

What kind of throttle?

[SIK1]

Some people will kill the engine & glide in on you & you won't hear them until it's to late.

Personally I don't think it works but others swear by it.

If the person you are gliding in on has poor SA it might work, I guess.

[Motherland]

From wikipedia....

Later rotaries still used blipping the ignition for landing, and some engines were equipped with a switch that cut out only some rather than all of the cylinders to ensure that the engine kept running and did not oil up. A few 9 cylinder rotaries had this capability, typically allowing 1, 3, or 6 cylinders to be kept running. Some 9 cylinder Monosoupapes had a selector switch which allowed the pilot to cut out six cylinders so that each cylinder fired only once per three engine revolutions but the engine remained in perfect balance. Some documentation regarding the Fokker Eindecker shows a rotary selector switch to cut out a selected number of cylinders suggesting that German rotaries did as well.

This is how the rotaries in game are modeled as well.

[4deck]

Some people will kill the engine & glide in on you & you won't hear them until it's to late.

Personally I don't think it works but others swear by it.

It works alot with PT's. Trust me.