Mc 202's throttle

[310_cibule]

Does anybody use reversed peripheral throttle mode in Mc 202 in order to get realistic feeling of flying a real Italian crate (or French, Czechoslovak etc)? 

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

no I just fly I could care less where the throttle is or what's it doing as long as there's gas going into the engine.

[310_cibule]

I've tried today. It is hopeless and would have taken me ages to learn reacting properly in a combat for instance. It is just interesting if you imagine that French and Czechoslovak pilots (maybe even Poles but I am not sure about that) had to swing after entering the RAF in 1940. I simply cannot imagine they manage in a couple od weeks.

[ACG_pezman]

I've tried today. It is hopeless and would have taken me ages to learn reacting properly in a combat for instance. It is just interesting if you imagine that French and Czechoslovak pilots (maybe even Poles but I am not sure about that) had to swing after entering the RAF in 1940. I simply cannot imagine they manage in a couple od weeks.

I get what your saying and the crazy part is they just had to. I'm sure some probably died after escaping to England and getting a spitfire assigned, then being used in the Battle of Britain with little training time. Getting into an engagement and killing throttle when they really meant to hammer it, bringing that contact on their 6 o'clock even closer for the kill. But that is the nature of war. Thing is I feel that people forget just how awful and bad it was. I can't even fathom all the death people saw back then, makes me humble to those that fought and lived then.

 

Disclaimer*: not sure how foreign pilots were brought into the RAF, just assuming that this probably did happen. England needed pilots and a lot of mainland European pilots escaped to fight on. I'm sure someone screwed up.

[Dakpilot]

Even up until the mid 50's most performance cars (especially Italian) still  had the throttle in the centre and the brake on the right, this also led to confusion and even some famous fatal accidents in Racing of the time, I believe Stirling Moss insisted on having the layout changed in his Maserati's

 

Some older racing motorbikes can give you a moment when you go to change up and find yourself locking the rear wheel with the footbrake

 

Cheers Dakpilot 

[310_cibule]

Right p3zman. This was my point exactly.

 

I didn't know it worked this way in Italien cars. Very interesting. Thx for the info.

[310_cibule]

It never came to my mind that Italien, Hungarian or Slovak pilots faced the same experience when switching to messerschmitts or junkers. Is there any Pole who would tell which way throttle in PZLs, LWSs or RWDs worked? I am just curious.

Edited March 1, 2016 by 310_cibule