Automatic/Manual Afterburner?

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Hi all

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

When using a “fighter” aircraft (F-18 or R-Fal from CJ Simulation), the afterburner is automatically engaged when I toggle the throttle beyond about 80/90% (I own an X56 HOTAS).
Having programmed a manual control on the Hotas “POST-COMBUSTION ROCKER” to avoid this automatic rocker, it does not seem to work, the control does not run and the afterburner remains engaged.
I wish I could go full throttle without the afterburner turning on and engage it manually.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
No, I didn’t have mods/add-on

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Every time on sim load.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1.Go to a free flight with a F/A-18 Super Hornet
2.Program the" afterburner switch" command on your flight device (HOTAS…)
3.Try to use this command, switch on and off the afterburner…Unfortunately it doesn’t work.

YOUR SETTINGS

Logitech G X56 HOTAS, joystick and throttle
Keyboard : Corsair K55 RGB Pro Black
Mouse : Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless Black

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
ASUS TUF Gaming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super OC Edition

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
Motherboard : ASUS TUF GAMING B760 PLUS WIFI
CPU : Intel Core i7 12700KF
RAM : CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 32Go (2x16Go) DDR5 6000MHz CL30
SSD : WD_BLACK SN770 SSD 1 To

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There you go, I hope you can help me.

Looking forward to reading you,

Have a good flight to al

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Thank you for this report. We’ve moved your topic into the User Support Hub.

Assure that no addons/mods are used when reporting issues in Bug Reports.
Mods include anything that doesn’t come with the sim.
All issues caused by or involving third-party addons/mods should be reported to the third-party developer.

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Hi,
Thanks for your answer.
The R-FAL of CJ Simulation available on market place. Can we consider it like a mod ?

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Hey from what I can tell with some of the fighters that are add-ons/mods your not wrong calling them that is the afterburner is an action definded by the throttle position not a togglable one

one of them Ive found the Sc/DC designs f-16 has a switch you can use to disable the burner but when you go full throttle you notice it still says on the exterior full HUD the same for the engine just no burner

I’m with you it would be nice if the burners were a togglable action or another detent at the end of the throttle that a button is needed to be pushed to get thru or back haven’t been in a fighter cockpit with a burner so don’t exactly know how it should work

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Yes, unfortunately in this case, it is.
Anything that did not come with the sim is considered a mod.
Even if the issue is something caused by, or needed to be changed in the sim to solve it, it is still reported to the developer.
They, in turn, would then contact MSFS Developer Support and work through them.

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Absolutely, yes, that would be great. In terms of fuel consumption, aircraft performance, etc.
Especially since an “AFTERBURNER TOGGLE” command is already available and programmable on its HOTAS.
But it doesn’t work.

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Ask the addon developers try find the website for CJ’s they will probably have a link to a discord and you will be able to ask and get an exact answer for that plane

But yes fully agree but as the Microsoft worker said they are considered as mods so what my original response is probably the reason as to what’s going on