Throttle

[WWM]

Is there any way to tell what the other guy is doing with the throttle when reviewing films or when riding with someone?  If not, how hard would it be for HT to set it up that so you could here it?

[Lusche]

Is there any way to tell what the other guy is doing with the throttle when reviewing films

No

If not, how hard would it be for HT to set it up that so you could here it?

Only HT really knows

[Traveler]

Is there any way to tell what the other guy is doing with the throttle when reviewing films or when riding with someone?  If not, how hard would it be for HT to set it up that so you could here it?

Unfortunately not.  However it does give you an airspeed , granted it’s a true airspeed,  but when the aircraft are on the deck it’s very close to indicated air speed and that’s all you care about.   You can do a pretty good job guessing as to what the throttle setting is by watching the airspeed trend and what the aircraft is doing.  Is he diving and the airspeed trend is slowing down,  Is he climbing with the nose high and again the airspeed trend is that the airspeed is dropping, very quickly or gradually. 

[TheRapier]

As the other guys have mentioned, its figuring it out from what the airplane is doing. This is as it should be. In real life you didn't get to look into the opponents cockpit and see how they were managing their systems. There is a process of deduction, which is really one of the fun parts of the game.

You get to play detective by deducing from what you see, what the pilot did. You do it long enough and you start to know what is happening in both cockpits, yours and theirs. You start to anticipate the moves and their variations and at that point you'll be winning more because you understand how it works and how it looks to both players. You can start to feed them impressions that lead them astray .

This is the same with all martial arts. When I teach fencing I hammer this home again and again. You have to be able to reconstruct what happened. If you don't, your rate of improvement is very, very, very (did I mention very?) slow. Might as well get into the habit now. Once you are in the habit, you probably won't even need to look at the film. You can reconstruct it from where you were and where the bad guy was when he shot you. You can do this because you know the starting position and what they MUST have done to get there.

Enjoy!

[uptown]

Have him email you his film