In the Spit XIV it conserves your WEP for combat, because you only have 10 minutes of it total, can use it continuously only for 5 minutes at a time and needs a cooldown time of 17 minutes.
In the Ta on the other hand, such conservation isn't necessary. You have 40(!) minutes of total WEP time, 10 minutes continuous use, with only 5 minutes cooldown. I always used WEP right from the start for the climbout.
It's not necessary to conserve in the Ta but IMO there's a bit to be said for not using WEP in the beginning.
Personally, if I'm spending a lazy afternoon/evening patrolling for bombers that are making strat runs at ludicrous alt, I sometimes climb to 15-20k without WEP before turning it on.
It's been years since I was doing it habitually, but I wasn't fond of having it recharge at whatever alt you get to if you WEP from the ground. I liked having more WEP available at alt before it needed to recharge rather than burning WEP at lower alt where the non-WEP climb rate was still decent. Climbing without WEP up to 10k didn't feel like it lost as much as having WEP not available in the 20-30k range.
IE- It felt like I got more benefit out of not having as much downtime as I got up to alt and was trying to get up to speed. YMMV of course.
If the situation is a bomber at 20kish, then it's time to WEP all the way from the ground obviously.
Once I'm up to speed at alt ish I would turn it off.
You've got to work at it to run a Ta out of WEP in a sortie though.
Wiley.
