How hard you need to move throttle lever of a real WWII plane?

[bycomet]

I remember that only some Soviet aircraft in the game (IL2 maybe) have movement speed limit on the RPM control. Even if the player quickly adjust it, it moves slowly to the position. But throttle lever has no such limit. Pushing or pulling throttle lever quickly can help the player accelerate or decelerate quickly.

 

But in this video (from 10:56), it took the pilot more than 10 seconds to push the throttle to full. Is it because the lever is so hard to move, or is the pilot just operating cautiously?

 

[[CPT]Crunch]

An almost irreplaceable motor at great cost, that should answer that question.

[HazMatt]

I wouldn't count the time where he bumped up power and then checked the gauges. Seems like he got on it pretty quick after he checked.

 

From what I've read about the P-51 is that if you were to shove it to full throttle right off the bat that you couldn't keep it on the runway so that might have something to do with it.

 

Very cool video. Thanks for sharing.

[firdimigdi]

On 7/4/2024 at 7:31 AM, bycomet said:

Is it because the lever is so hard to move, or is the pilot just operating cautiously?

 

The latter, you can see he is holding it quite gingerly later on.

[R33GZ]

Imagine what would happen if you had a car with a V12 engine in the front and you just jumped on the accelerator.... that vehicle would be out of control in seconds. I bet it would be one hell of an impressive skid though 😁

[Slippery_Pete]

In real life, you cannot throttle up to the firewall on take off in a ~2000hp inline engine, the torque will flip the plane over. IL-2 does not model the gyroscopic effects of asymmetric torque and roll, so is there is no consequence to doing that in game.   The pilot in the video is simply using the power he needs to take off and nothing more. Uusually half throttle or less is all you need.  There are other sims, which do model these effects I suggest you try so you get a better sense of what's happening in the video, you can also read books written by WW2 inline engine pilots, like say Bud Anderson or Robin Olds where they talk about this.