Hi all, curious what this indicator means in the CJ4? See similar ones in other turbine/turbo prop planes too and not sure what it tells me… Thanks!
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I rhink it references the climb detent or MCT but im not 100٪
Yeah, that was my conclusion. I dunno if it happens on the PC version but after rotation on Xbox, the throttle is brought back a notch automatically and it does denote CLB.
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Appreciate the feedback! Seems reasonable, although it seems to vary depending on altitude, so not sure that’s exactly it? But again, thanks; better info than I can figure out on my own!
I did some research. It appears to be a target throttle position calculated by the computers. A setting for best econ/power for the current conditions. It’s advisory only there is no way to slave the throttle to the bug.
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Awesome, that seems to make sense. Curious where you found the info? I was trying to do some research and couldn’t even find a good way to try to describe it to look!
Thanks again,
Jon
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Either that’s an Xbox thing, or you have an assistant setting turned on doing this. This doesn’t happen on mine on PC and I have to manually pull back to the climb detent.
I just did a google search on cessna cj4 EICAS. read thru a few documents and a forum thread. Found some pilots talking about it in regards to something or other. Sounded like it was the answer to me. Ill try to gind it and link it here.
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Must be an Xbox thing then, it’d be good to know if this behaviour is supposed to happen but either way it’s a good kind of convenience. I only use assisted rudder but the rest is all me as far assists go.
This page seems to have a good description: AVIONICS for dummies: ENGINE INDICATION ON EICAS
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Hi all, as I continue to learn more, it seems that this bug should update position to the optimal throttle/thrust/n1 amount depending on flight phase (climb, cruise, desc) and data in perf init, etc. However the bug never seems to move for me? Are my expectations wrong, or am I doing something wrong, or?
EDIT- although looking again at the link above, perhaps I’m just wrong and that is simply a max sustained N1 value, and it’s totally up to pilot management/discretion to select N1.
Thanks!
You should ask in the WT Discord CJ4 channel since they revamped the avionics (and have at least one type certified pilot on the Dev staff).
Great suggestion. As an old(ish 
) guy, I keep forgetting about discord… Appreciate it.