I set the afterburner key, but it didn’t work. Is there anyone who can tell me the setting of the afterburner in detail? Which key should I set for ‘toggle afterburner’, ‘afterburner1’, ‘afterburner2’, ‘afterburner3’, and ‘afterburner4’? And can I turn on the afterburner at the cockpit?
Use toggle afterburner. Then give full throttle and after that press the key you assigned to toggle afterburner.
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Oh, now it works. Thanks!!
How did you manage to put a fighter pilot in the cockpit? Mine uses my standard pilot avatar, which looks ridiculous!
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You can change the avatar through the General Options → Misc
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Or if you’re using a joystick you can map the toggle afterburner to the thrust function on your throttle.
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Well, I had no trouble figuring out how to turn on afterburner, but I still can’t turn it off. Pressing the toggle key again does nothing. I can only disengage the afterburner by throttling back to about 90%, the afterburner disengages then I can throttle back to 100%. Can anyone turn it off with the toggle key?
You need to reduce thrust indeed, only option to disengage the afterburner as far as I figured out.
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I have no idea, it was already there 
But I think @Neo4316 has the answer for you.
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Thanks, I will gives it a try.
Yesterday it was impossible to change the pilot but maybe the servers were just overloaded…
This is such a dumb implementation - I’ve never heard and of any modern aircraft that requires a specific toggle to activate afterburners. In just about every case, moving the throttle past a certain percentage of throttle (90% - 95% typically) will trigger the afterburners. Moving the throttles back below the trigger point will cut them off. Some aircraft with multi-stage ‘burners will have a detent and a larger range past that detent to engage increasing stages of afterburning, but there is not any kind of physical switch to specifically toggle at full-throttle to engage.
That said, the visual effect is beautifully well-done, especially at dusk or night.
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“I’ve never heard and of any modern aircraft that requires a specific toggle to activate afterburners. In just about every case, moving the throttle past a certain percentage of throttle (90% - 95% typically) will trigger the afterburners.”
And that’s precisely what you can do. Once mapped to the throttle it works great.
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You figured out how to map the Toggle Afterburner feature to a throttle AXIS or a button on your throttle?
Throttle axis, ie the throttle increase/decrease slider on my joystick.
Choose the toggle afterburner option and then just move your throttle up or down to select it. Then in the game once thrust rises above a certain percent the burner kicks in, reduce and it switches off
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I’ll have to give that a try later today - thanks for the tip.
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incorrect. They have a detent on most fighter jets in US military that requires you to press that detent then push the past military power. Though I agree in this case since most of us don’t have detents on our hotas. They should just light the cans after a certain throttle percentage.
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A detent is not a physical button.
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It could be a virtual button, though… depending on the hardware.
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This is how I made it easy to use the afterburner with a controller:
Finally in DX11, indeed it came back to normal, I think, in the moment with the PC6, in DX11 and W10. I have to try again with the F18, to know if the drop comes from the F18 or that I had a problem.
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