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Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: straffo on May 20, 2003, 03:24:58 PM

I was the victim of a "throttle" jam and was stuck WEP ON in my typhoon for about 10 minutes.
Now my question is how many time I can use safely  ?

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: frank3 on May 20, 2003, 03:27:16 PM

a throttle jam eh? never heared of that. ofcourse I always jam my throttle forward but stuck? no..

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: udet on May 20, 2003, 04:34:37 PM

won't WEP turn off automatically?

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: devious on May 20, 2003, 04:38:06 PM

It will.

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: WldThing on May 20, 2003, 04:44:36 PM

WEP kicks out once you throttle down, or hit the P button again..

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: bfreek on May 20, 2003, 07:38:00 PM

had a "throttle jam" with a misscalibration of my stick b4.

Unless hes talking about the booger like stuff that builds up on the throttle  lever from sweat, food particles and well...boogers , maybe thats the throttle  "jam".

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: straffo on May 21, 2003, 05:06:43 AM

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Originally posted by WldThing
WEP kicks out once you throttle down, or hit the P button again..

Yep ,I know but My throttle didn't want me to go donw and I didn't remember of the  P key (hotas is bad for your memory ;)

In this case I was using wep since 1/2 minutes then the throttle broke so I had about 12 minutes WEP but I think the typhoon don't have so much wep available !

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: MiloMorai on May 21, 2003, 05:30:31 AM

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Originally posted by straffo
Yep ,I know but My throttle didn't want me to go donw and I didn't remember of the  P key (hotas is bad for your memory ;)

In this case I was using wep since 1/2 minutes then the throttle broke so I had about 12 minutes WEP but I think the typhoon don't have so much wep available !

Sounds like you are confused about WEP.
The throttle quadrant had a wire that had to be broken by the throttle lever for the engine to go to an overboost condition, or WEP. The Typhoon did not have water injection but still could get WEP.

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: LLv34_Snefens on May 21, 2003, 08:49:23 AM

As for the reason why your throttle didn't respond, you could have accidently hit Shift-2 (or another number except 1). I have tried that once and went around with 100% power for ten minutes before I figured out the cause.

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: gofaster on May 21, 2003, 09:03:32 AM

What does Shift-2 do?  Is it some sort of command?

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: LLv34_Snefens on May 21, 2003, 11:08:49 AM

shift+# is engine selection, meant for multiengine aircrafts. Problem is that if you are in a one engined aircraft you still can switch to only control the (non-existant) second engine, and throttle changes won't work on the engine that IS there (#1).

I don't know if it's possible to change engines in all planes or it's just a bug for a few. The one it happend in for me was the Ki-61 once in the CT, but I haven't tested it in others.

PS: Shift-E gives you control for all engines again in multi-engined aircrafts.

Title: How many time of WEP for the typhoon ?
Post by: straffo on May 21, 2003, 02:12:58 PM

Damm spot on Snef !
I was playing with shift-F1  etc ... I should have made this error  !