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Tucano throttle modifcation help! (Read 252 times)

Jun 11^th, 2009 at 5:27pm

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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!

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Reply #1 - Jun 11^th, 2009 at 5:31pm

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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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Reply #2 - Jun 11^th, 2009 at 8:28pm

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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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Reply #3 - Jun 11^th, 2009 at 9:05pm

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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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Reply #4 - Jun 12^th, 2009 at 8:56am

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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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Reply #5 - Jun 12^th, 2009 at 9:13am

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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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Reply #6 - Jun 12^th, 2009 at 8:40pm

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acw889 wrote on Jun 12^th, 2009 at 8:56am:

I'm betting the RAF did something different to the aircraft (turboprop afterburners? Cheesy

) that makes it spool faster. Your friend may have said it spools immediately, but I'm betting there's at least a half-second or second of spool time for it. I can't imagine there being any TP aircraft that could get going instantly. The dynamics of the assembly just won't allow for something like that.

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