How To Easily TRIPLE Your Jet's Fuel Efficiency in War Thunder

[@HEATSEEKR]

That, ladies and gentlemen, is stage 1 afterburner

[@osmacar5331]

Aye

[@jonathonspears7736]

Was looking for this comment.

[@Elloliott]

As far as I know, not every plane can do this?

[@HEATSEEKR]

@@Elloliott it's very finicky with some jets. It works the best on jets with high fuel consumption like the F-14, JA-37, F-16, MiG-29, etc. That's where you'll see a massive amount of fuel savings.

[@jackcrawford4274]

I’ve always done this. I thought that was common

[@biddinge8898]

They should give WEP a percentage so you can do this.

[@dylanyeomans3842]

yea itd be nice to be able to do half after burner like in dcs

[@Acepilot235]

They do. You have two stages of afterburner in some jets. F-14 has it.

[@huntingfox3351]

@@Acepilot235 Alright, that is not quite correct. You are able to go into more than 100% on your engine, engaging your afterburner. WEP is at max 113,5% iirc. If you dont scroll up all the way, you can get between the 100% and the 113,5%. HOWEVER this is not how Gaijin has modelled afterburner stages, as this same mechanic is present in propeller aircraft, which, as you might know, do not have afterburners

[@JacKnife3705]

@@huntingfox3351 no but propeller aircraft have WEP which is why in game its called WEP. ( War Emergency Power) it wasn’t often used as it could damage the engine ( back then the engines werent as reliable as modern piston engines) and since planes had more drag and limitations back then it wasn’t always easy incase a engine goes out(not that it ever is) and the fact that WEP could only last a few minutes. Also it wasn’t available on all aircraft.

[@huntingfox3351]

@@JacKnife3705 yes and if you check the game data you can see that propeller aircraft WEP works the same as jet aircraft WEP

[@fritzbuild3r]

There is actually a hidden WEP throttle, if you set your scroll wheel multiplier low enough you can get upwards of like ten stages.

[@left_ventricle]

Yeah, from 101% opening till 110% opening.

[@chimpswag3492]

HOTAS users know this well

[@Ars_Illyrian]

Well ... there is a visible difference with the 3 stages on the afterburner. But let's say during take off and battlefield approach you don't need full power, then you can save a lot of fuel this way. But usually never use anything but full afterburner during combat.

[@richardmoore609]

You don't want to be after burning or even 100% throttle while turning in a dogfight. Dropping it to around 65 - 80% will give you a much tighter turn. Plus afterburing makes your engines hotter and increases the chance a fox-2 hits you.

[@jamaga7331]

@@richardmoore609 try dogfighting without afterburner off in a custom 1v1 and you wont get far

[@dogeness]

@@richardmoore609 this is pretty stupid advice. Below corner speed your turn radius does not decrease with a decrease in speed. It remains constant. All you’re doing by cutting throttle is decreasing your turn rate.

[@richardmoore609]

@@dogeness yeah, BELOW cornering speed. Don't let it get that low and try and break off before that. But keeping your throttle on wep for an entire dogfight is dumb.

[@dogeness]

@@richardmoore609 not getting below corner speed is a ridiculous condition to try to keep in any war thunder dogfight. With the G limits pilots in game have you will simply get out-pulled and shot down. You’re basically saying to never get in any turning dogfight whatsoever.

[@albertogiavani75]

British planes gain 101% throttle with this

[@florianbruckner3130]

All planes do

[@henlooo8135]

yeah all planes get 101% throttle but maybe ur using the harrier which does not have afterburner lol

[@albertogiavani75]

I meant props sowwy

[@SCPFoundationist]

@@albertogiavani75 Italian

[@GunsAndAmmo3]

Please censor Br***sh

[@bobbygarcia9110]

No one's talking about the greatest background song choice

[@yuno1707]

Friday night :DDD

[@IJN_Guy]

That disco battle against that dude from Osaka still pisses me off today, even though I beat him a while ago.

[@omary5439]

I was just going to say this excellent music

[@RAYY_WILD]

as an average comet enjoyer i can confirm that cutting throttle in half will greatly increase your flighttime

[@desertfalcon1539]

As a BI enjoyer, i confirm this

[@MegaJani]

@@desertfalcon1539 Oh hey, it's my dead brother

[@desertfalcon1539]

@@MegaJani mate, tf2 is far from being dead

[@RonnieMcNutt_Mindblowing]

​@@desertfalcon1539it's past dead, so far past dead that it's far from being dead

[@Dankauff]

In first person, you can see the difference between this and full burner in the fuel flow

[@murphnturph2664]

They just need to model in afterburner zones, so when you get past 100% you can scroll up and down through zones. The Tomcat has 5.

[@whitelazer5809]

they need to find another way to implement this with a bind on your keyboard, as mine are set up to have my scroll wheel as zoom/machine guns as lmb/cannons as rmb

[@j6moon15]

Yeah I’ve been using it for the MiG-29 and it’s literally a lifesaver, super useful

[@plat216]

it is implemented on the keyboard, just press Lshift once at 100%

[@flibiesssyt9822]

Man can’t wait to unlock jets, had warthunder for like a month or two and I’m 2 planes from braking into tier 3. Gonna be a lot of grinding for jets bruh but that’s just how the grind goes

[@БексултанРусланов-х5г]

month or two for tier 3? i made it in a week

[@Tyrannosaurusstudios]

@@БексултанРусланов-х5г a week i made it in 6 days

[@Alguien644]

​@@Tyrannosaurusstudios6 days i made it in 5 days

[@Tyrannosaurusstudios]

@@Alguien644 tocae

[@zazzyboy8592]

Meanwhile I push it on afterburner 24/7 so I can be as light as possible

[@petermikus2363]

Now we have up to 110% instead of wep so you can even see how much you have.

[@alphamaxDEVIL-15]

It’s easy also go higher you’ll see a difference in fuel consumption

[@gigacream5830]

Bold of you to assume I survive long enough to worry about fuel

[@Nenemon]

Now it shows exactly what percentage of WEP you are at so no more assuming is required 👌

[@Itslindy117]

This is something everyone either does immediately or never. Ive know this since 2017 when i started war thunder

[@StruggleGaming]

Exactly this trick is why i almost never use drop tanks when i can just use stage 1 after racing to a base or into position.

[@BOEING--mh6xm]

You can also tell the difference from the engines temperature And I figured out how to do this on Xbox a while ago you just go to 100% and push gently for halfterburner or full WEP and if you wanna go back to halfterburner or what I like to call it stage 1 and 2 afterburner you gotta go back to 100% from my experience

[@timkoehler]

In the Tornado cockpit you can see that the fuel flow using this method is like half of the fuel flow with full afterburner. I habe used it for the Tornado ever since i noticed that

[@norfangl3480]

If you're low on fuel and returning to base. Put your throttle down to 50%. You'll maintain good speed still but reduce fuel consumption by half

[@leef9242]

Yeah, I play sim, the f5 has a three stage afterburner, you can tell which one youre in by looking at the fuel flow gauge

[@AugmentedGravity]

Yep. Been doing this for a while now but only works on a mouse as you said. It frustrates me that WT apparently doesn’t know what an afterburner is. AB is not AB. It can be THROTTLED. Full AB(+) aka war emergency power will yes eat your fuel up, compared to normal mach 1+ AB or stage 1 etc.

[@Sparmink]

I believe they recently changed it to a percentage for afterburner so you can do this easier now

[@mlc9928]

If you use a joystick and throttle, you can use 101%, 105% all the way up to WEP. Whatever you want.

[@HunterLord458]

This video was made before gaijin added the fine tuning for all vehicles

[@mlc9928]

So was my comment.

[@robisfantasticutube]

This also works for the comet, stick the throttle to 20% for seekrit cruise mode.

[@maltesers1239]

For the record, you can do this trick using just keyboard if you want to keep your scroll wheel for something else. You just need to quickly let go of shift are going from 100 to WEP

[@jonleg12312]

you can actually adjust your afterburner from 101 to 110% (it jumps to 110% right away if you increase throttle past 100 with your keyboard). You can only see this using WTRTI for example

[@JSDFEnthusiast]

For anyone playing the J35's it's the best thing because 20 mins wet is barely anything to stick around. With half you can even reach top speed and wrip in a straight line

[@patta8388]

Going from the Marineflieger Tornado as my main jet (grinding, grinding grinding) to the Fulcrum was a painful experience in terms of fuel management...

[@Jebotito]

some jets have cockpit instrumets which can indicate how much of AB you have set. if they dont have this, look for fuel pressure, fuel consumption, nozzle mode, exhaust temp. you can see scrolling 1-1 on your mouse wheel will increase these ever so slightly until you max out

[@inoo2345]

I usually have music blasting so i just look at the fuel consumption

[@Dragon-ye8nt]

I use the same trick on the f-16. It even has a guage in the cockpit displaying fuel flow rate, which can be uaed to see the difference between thw various levels of burner. Not sure if the f-14 has the same guage.

[@xanderwusky3001]

Btw what many haven’t realised yet is that it’s not just 2 stages either. It’s many of them. I use a program that shows me some more stats like my engine thrust. You can clearly see there is many different wel settings. You can go full but also like 10 steps in between.

[@dedmajor]

Goated music choice btw

[@Drnken229]

The amount of times I need to watch my fuel is so small and when I have to, I either RTB with 50% and

[@cloudhunter2]

At a MiG-29 the throttle control lever goes like this: first 60% is dry thrust and painfully slow ass plane, and the other 40% is afterburner. In DCS i like to keep it around 80% In conclusion: they should change the throttle to be like this: 0%-80% is dry and 81%-100% is afterburner.

[@wooow35]

Probably nooones gonna see this but- also bind your scroll wheel down to your countermeasure. That way if you have IR missiles inbound, you can yank the scroll wheel down to launch flares AND deactivate afterburner at the same time. Useful if you keep forgetting to do one or the other

[@zawadlttv]

me, who was only using my scrollwheel for throttle except for when taking off where i had a bind on my pgup and pgdwn for it

[@pattonkeith]

Also high altitude flight uses less fuel since the air is thinner

[@tristainlongshot7524]

IRL it's called First stage Afterburner. most 4th gen Fighters have twin stage afterburner one is for cruise and the other is self explanatory. there are some 4th Gen that only have one stage in their afterburner but they are normally light fighters or a 3rd gen ++

[@alteration_rift1697]

me in my P-51 watching this, thinking im gonna use it some day

[@Goofyahmc]

There’s a very noticeable difference off takeoff and in fights but thats it

[@Kryoic]

I love your music choice

[@Estuardomendez13]

f15 has 5 stages of afterburner you can also jist tap the throttle button really fast to get non full afterburner

[@CanadianAlchmst]

Mouse wheel multiplier doesn't matter at all, just scroll up slightly and you're golden.

[@Eclipse-lw4vf]

I always forget I have old settings of warthunder. When I started shift and LCtrl was throttle along with mouse wheel. Didn’t realize u have to bind it now..

[@liamcarr2001]

There a setting to turn hold for wep off. Allows you to hold 101% and 105% throttle

[@The-snail-owns-my-soul]

I have the mig 21 lazuras and this helps a lot

[@Neal_131_TCD]

It's also good if you have Engines That keep over heating But still want To be fast.

[@frenchboi2046]

Bro I noticed this while playing and convinced myself i was just going insane like nahh the fuel is going down at the same rate youre just tired

[@blyatman9726]

"I will not sugar-coat it"

[@jooj_br]

you can also see your throttle amount in the live trackers of your account

[@Del80VR]

**explodes in realistic**

[@AmericaWhereisOil]

The scroll wheel for throttle has been around so long it is already to be used

[@takatokuwahara5907]

Love this trick and Friday night playing in the background 😊

[@nauticacraft]

most importantly do not be inpatient jet pilots only actually go supersonic to outrun enemy

[@MikeJones-mf2fw]

They need to add the 150 percent option that has the risk of blowing up

[@friesingcold]

Great background music

[@n1co2017]

i have it set up with my W and S keys to where i can hold it and it will do like usual or i can tap it and it will go down 25% throttle. as a mostly ground player tho i wish when you were setting the range the thing would scroll "X"m at a time to adjust more precisely.

[@the_charliecp8859]

thats the first stage and second stage afterburners on the planes, some cant do it tho

[@itodaigo3236]

I call it before burner… don’t question it

[@SABERWOLF2557]

Oh my god you're a fucking genius

[@jimbojazz6879]

There is a slight audible difference in afterburner stages as well. The Tomcat has 5, and I think the F16 has 3.

[@charmsly9506]

Haha props do the same thing u can scroll from 101-110%

[@KataIIama]

Idk how to take off

[@RonnieMcNutt_Mindblowing]

🇷🇴🇹🇩

[@magoshighlands4074]

In real life these are called Zones, the Tomcat has five distinct afterburner zones, most modern jets have 3

[@m3chgeek470]

So I actually took the money that I saved and not having to buy the title of this game and then put it down on a hotas thrustmaster throttle. With a vkb stick. Cheap but yet effective the throttle actually comes with its own Ruger paddle but I went and bought the Rutters peddles to😂 it definitely makes me feel like I get more out of this game then just using a mouse

[@avalanpenta6944]

i wish the viggen would get this. i dont have the viggen but i know it hase 3 stages of afterburner and ingame ur constantly using the strongest one

[@Jay-mq2ng]

Or… you can take low fuel and all drop tanks or just take max fuel since if fuel determines you winning or loosing , there is something else you need to work on

[@funfactor4528]

Meanwhile on console we can't use 90% of the controls 💀💀

[@Bulogan]

They have fixed the problem with a 100-110 percent

[@QeteshThePony]

This is multi stage AB, use it all the time it’s pretty good

[@opilo3339]

In Russia there is no afterburner in Russia we have the beforeburner

[@joethegeordie5032]

You can just tap shift quickly and achieve the same result without having to change binds

[@arktossgaming5936]

you ca see the difference in the cockpit, when you look at the fuel flow idnicator now schowing less pph ( pounds per hours ) consumption than on full AB Realistically this would be AB min and AB Max Or Min reheat and Max reheat depending on aircraft

[@flare9757]

So on the F-14A this would work due to it having a stepped afterburner. The F-14B does not. So I will be surprised if this works with other aircraft.

[@williewilson2250]

It's a bug, not an actual feature because it works with props too

[@Terrados1337]

some planes have a percentage above 100 instead of WEP, mostly low tier stuff and not sure how gaijin decides which plane gets which.

[@fewkite]

For f5c if you do the wep you do see the fire but when its on 100 you dont

[@AmmarAlshomali]

Oh boy i forgot i usually or accidentally scroll up or down with my mouse...

[@wolfmelon5056]

I didn't listen to indicate that I'm on halfburner, I just trust the process and hope it work 😂

[@Argsgoon]

On console you have a 110% indicator so if you tap on your throttle it will go to 105% afterburner much easier than this on pc

[@jacobjohnson2072]

There is no need for this most of us myself included dont last long enough to run out of fuel 😂😅

[@illitero]

Not being familiar with the controls, I feel that scroll wheel for throttle would be a standard binding given both frequency of use and finer precision in modulation. But...like...it's not the default? Don't tell me that mashing keys for steps in up/down adjustment is the default. That seems both slow and tedious in a warplane sim hahaha

[@NoobNoobContent]

thank you so much for the tip

[@uru2466]

Or alternatively press and hold w

[@StoFumato]

Its stage 1 afterburner, every jet with aft have it.

[@willthomas9635]

its called a 2 stage afterburner. Some jets have more. I think the mig29 has 3

[@lurtzy_]

Just dont use afterburner all the time. Its called War *Emergency Power* for a reason

[@keeganatkinson8150]

The proper term for this is stages there are four stages to afterburner

[@Pilicast]

halfterburner is just what I call it for the sake of brevity; lot quicker to say than "first/second/third/- stage afterburner"

[@smilingxassassin]

ECO MODE IN FIGHTER JETS LMAO. I'LL TAKE IT.

[@Brothafromyourmotha]

Fuel management is easy if you just dont use afterburner for 20 minutes straight

[@jdfhunter7305]

I did this a lot without knowing 💀

[@45atanner]

Yes that makes sense😂 I’ll use more power and somehow save fuel game is very realistic

[@Poisonkiller456]

If i do that i have to keep scrolling otherwise it goes down to 100%

[@frostyvr9805]

Literally just stage 1 afterburner/Mil power depending on the aircraft

[@akita989]

No the stress I get is being smashed by r27er at 100 ft from the ground like clutter just isn’t a thing xD

[@Zambezi_]

i just load a ton of fuel and use a lot of it getting to the battle full speed

[@kerimgumus9944]

I KNEW İT. ı thought i was some sort of glitch.

[@NickstaSims]

In real life if you want to consume less fuel in your jet, fly high and fast. The service ceiling for the F-14 in this instance is roughly 60,000 ft. In DCS with the F-14 at sea level you will burn at mil power (which is 100% throttle with non after burner) roughly 8 thousand pounds of fuel per hour. Up at 50,000 ft you start to burn around 3 - 4 thousand pounds per hour.

[@NickstaSims]

This is another reason why I dislike war thunders aircraft gameplay because the people like to say it's super realistic but in reality it's more like ace combat with a sprinkle of reality. Where as in DCS you get a more real sense of flight and air combat.