Hello Aleatorylamp,
You are inventing things at this point.
Sometimes you have to, but I believe in this case you really do not need to.
What does the actual throttle quadrant on a R-2600-13 engine actually look like?
Do any of them have the "Gated" Throttle that you are proposing?
You do realise of course that having a voluntary 90% non-WEP limitation is really no limitation at all, right?
Nothing stops the pilot from running continuous 100% power.
Perhaps that is what you are trying to do.
I personally don't like the idea because I believe that in this case WEP should have a limitation.
WEP durations vary all over the place:
The DB 601Aa engines and their derivatives had a 1 Minute Take-Off setting
The Merlins had typically 5 minute limits
The R-2800 Ws had 10 minute limits because of anti-detonant supply
The BMW 801D-2 series in later versions had pretty much as much WEP as "needed"
There really isn't a standard but from a practical standpoint, I believe there should be a restriction of some kind.
If you are really intent on doing something like a gated throttle, perhaps you should consider revising the AIR file so that the extra 10% power is controlled by the F10 key rather than a voluntary throttle setting.
Your gated throttle is really no restriction and has the same issue as the CFS implemented WEP anyway.
If you are going to increase critical altitude with WEP anyway, why not do it via the CFS mechanism?
I actually still prefer the numbers I was getting with the B-25C but mostly that is because I was tuning it to get the flavour *I* wanted.
I get the impression that your goals may be a little different.
Keep in mind that the actual flight performance is the goal here.
No one out there besides a couple fanatics will be measuring your engine output anyway.
- Ivan.
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