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FSX Engines slow to respond to input

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Drew Daniell

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Hi all, is there a way to have the engines respond faster to the throttle input. The throttles in the aircraft themselves move at exactly the same time as I move my hardware throttles however the engine torque gauges are painfully slow to catch up or slow down. I’m referring to the Carenado F406 caravan 2 in particular. I was hoping there was a setting that could be changed to have the torque needles respond quicker to the input. I fly turbine PT6 -34s on our real aircraft daily and they respond with way less lag.
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Drew
 
Ok, this is something that is a lose-lose situation. In FSX, anything you do to increase the engine's spool rate/response will cause gross overshoots in N1/RPM values. So, yes... adjusting fuel flow gain will change spool rate/response timing... but it will also mess up and cause overshoot etc... especially during engine startup.
 
WarpD said:
Ok, this is something that is a lose-lose situation. In FSX, anything you do to increase the engine's spool rate/response will cause gross overshoots in N1/RPM values. So, yes... adjusting fuel flow gain will change spool rate/response timing... but it will also mess up and cause overshoot etc... especially during engine startup.
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Thanks for the reply. What is meant by overshoot?
 
Well, that's a "technical term" (kidding!!)... it means that when you start the engine, the N1 and/or prop RPMs will go waaaay above redline and be slow to settle back down to idle conditions.
 
Oh ok, is that the only time? I say that because our sim is used ready for takeoff and we never actually start the engines. So I’m guessing it may be worthwhile to try it if it won’t affect any other phases of flight.
 
At any time the throttle is moved quickly and the engine must spool up or down, it will tend to overshoot the expected N1/Prop RPM amounts, especially N1.
 
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