Tucano throttle modifcation help!

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Tucano throttle modifcation help!

Postby acw889 » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:27 pm

Hi there

I've jsut got the smshed tucano pakage and ts really cool but theres jsut one problem, the throttle / power increases very slowly and is not very responsive i.e. if you go from idle to full power on a joystick it takes a few seconds to reach full power .. kind of like a jet engine does as it spools up

does anyone know how i could mod this so that the throttle is as responsive as it should be ... like in a cessna!

Thanks :)
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Re: Tucano throttle modifcation help!

Postby Travis » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:31 pm

There's nothing wrong with it, in all actuality.  It's a turboprop, which takes longer to spool up than a conventional prop aircraft.  Think "jet-driven propeller".
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Re: Tucano throttle modifcation help!

Postby acw889 » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:28 pm

I have a friend who flies them ... he has told me that it doesn't spool up and is instant, for the simple reason that if a relatively new and inexperience pilot stalls on finals then they need full power instantly, there has been one made to spool up and act lke a jet engine, but the dea was scrapped
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Re: Tucano throttle modifcation help!

Postby Travis » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:05 pm

Then it may be that the one your friend flies is not a turboprop.  I've never heard of a turboprop that functions like a piston engine.  The propeller spins up in proportion to how much thrust is created by the turbine, which takes time to spool up just like a jet aircraft does.

About how many seconds does the engine take to reach full power?
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Re: Tucano throttle modifcation help!

Postby acw889 » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:56 am

on the real thing he says its instant, on the sim version its a good 2 maybe 3 seconds ... perhaps  miss-understood .. just for reference he flies for the RAF so maybe it has been engineered deliberately to do this?
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Re: Tucano throttle modifcation help!

Postby Fozzer » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:13 am

All Turbine (Turbo-prop) engines take a while to spool up...and slow down!

Its a totally different experience to flying a piston-engined Aircraft, and requires more "type" training...!

All the Flight Sim Aircraft replicate the same realistic Turbo-prop engine lag.

Pratt and Whitney PT6, etc...

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Re: Tucano throttle modifcation help!

Postby Travis » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:40 pm

[quote]on the real thing he says its instant, on the sim version its a good 2 maybe 3 seconds ... perhaps
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