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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@Pilicast]

Officially this is called first-stage afterburner, halfterburner is just what I call it for brevity. Another name someone had for it was "Eco-burner" which I liked To add to the video; setting throttle to both keyboard and wheel will allow you to have both fast and accurate control options over your throttle, so you can use keyboard to quickly power up and down, and wheel when you need a specific percentage

[@agiliteka]

This is a really good tip, I've been doing this for a while, I've got the scroll wheel, but also bound to + and - on my numpad

[@minibigbox8313]

I got it by binding it on z and x like in ksp game And mouse ofc. Zoom is mouse 2

[@pyro1047]

Pretty sure this works by default on console too by doing the same thing; instead of the wheel, you're just barely nudging the left joystick past WEP. It's only really consistent when you're going straight or in a gentle turn though, as your roll axis is on the same stick and trying to keep it pushed in that exact spot as you're rolling around turning and burning in a dogfight is at best annoying, if not outright impossible.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

Holy hit didnt know afterburner was gradual

[@wruenvadam]

I only do props and early jets but this trick is great when trying to manage engine heat. Having both fast and precise control means that even when running efficient you are never more than 1 second away from emergency power. Especially useful when flying Spitfires, particularly the Merlin powered ones.

[@ProGodAris]

Fun fact everyone! Now you see clearly how much you WEP (Example : 110% WEP) So this would probably show something like: 103/105% WEP instead of a 110% let's say.

[@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

[@_jaegerboy_]

You don't really need to use afterburner that much, there's a reason why it's called emergency. Fyi irl afterburner is rarely used except for takeoffs and emergency interception, using them while in a battle is good if you know WHEN to use it and not overuse them.

[@Spectre-907]

Even then standard takeoff on the B model tomcat is just straight mil power

[@Warriorcat49]

It’s not called emergency, and there’s a reason we moved away from the “emergency” terminology like WEP. You need the extra power in a fight, and if you’re not using it, you’re going to be at a disadvantage in many cases. It is intended to be used liberally while fighting. The only time you *wouldn’t* use AB while actively fighting is when you’re trying not to get too fast (2 circle fight/managing closure rate), or if you’re already low on fuel.

[@_jaegerboy_]

@@Warriorcat49 that is correct, also i use the term "emergency" as to not confuse casual War Thunder players

[@goawayihavecommentstomake1488]

WEP stands for “War Emergency Power” doesn’t it?

[@Warriorcat49]

@@goawayihavecommentstomake1488 Yes, and we haven't used that term in aviation since piston-driven engines were in use. Afterburners, however, can technically be used for the entire duration of a flight without special maintenance inspections being required, so it's not an emergency setting. The only limitation is fuel and range. War Thunder simply uses the term for any "greater than 100%" power setting.

[@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%

[@kingghidorah8106]

me on my MiGs that got their multiple stages of the afterburner removed: 💀⚰️

[@iuploadrandomthings7783]

Me using a 29 with Stage 1

[@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

[@user-yp1cv1jt5t]

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

[@Tyrannosaurusstudios]

@@user-yp1cv1jt5t 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.

[@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.

[@veiled_x]

iv been controlling it with my mouse wheel sense day 1. i didn’t really pay attention to the fuel so that’s nice to know😂

[@alphamaxDEVIL-15]

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

[@BADBADGER18]

I also use the Y menu and shut off an engine if i need to make it back to base on a very low amount of fuel (obviously only works with 2 engine jets)

[@Nenemon]

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

[@Captain_Coleslaw]

I am glad to see you use this, ive been doing it ever since we got planes with afterburners. I call it the Eco-Burner

[@gigacream5830]

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

[@normallymute0131]

For the F-14 we have multiple stages, 1,2,3 and very small if at all difference between 4 and 5 3rd stage afterburner is the most efficient while providing the best thrust. 5th stage just blows everything out of the water

[@mauriciosanchez144]

Brother, it’s called stage 1 afterburner😂

[@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

[@charmsly9506]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@KataIIama]

Idk how to take off

[@RonnieMcNutt_Mindblowing]

🇷🇴🇹🇩

[@inoo2345]

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

[@Kryoic]

I love your music choice

[@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.

[@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

[@dedmajor]

Goated music choice btw

[@ryanhansen1296]

Imagine top tier games lasting long enough to run out of fuel.

[@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.

[@takatokuwahara5907]

Love this trick and Friday night playing in the background 😊

[@alteration_rift1697]

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

[@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.

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

I have the mig 21 lazuras and this helps a lot

[@NoobNoobContent]

thank you so much for the tip

[@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

[@Sparmink]

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

[@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

[@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...

[@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

[@blyatman9726]

"I will not sugar-coat it"

[@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 ++

[@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

[@TaGF_Tomcat]

Kinda important, the multiplier for the scroll wheel is very finicky and can be “misaligned” to the point that you skip over the first stage afterburner and go straight to a higher stage or full AB. You can avoid this by going to max WEP with keyboard and then scrolling back down to 100%, you’ll know you did it right if you see 101% the first time you scroll up. I’m not a game dev but if I had to guess how it works, the scroll wheel doesn’t move you up by 1.0%, it moves you by 1.2% or something, depending on your multiplier. Hard to notice since 1.2 + 1.2 = 2.4, which just looks like 1 + 1 = 2 when you don’t display the decimals. But 1.2 x 5 = 6, which looks like 1 x 5 = 6 in the game.

[@friesingcold]

Great background music

[@afdelta0120]

Lower stage afterburners go brrrr.

[@robisfantasticutube]

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

[@funfactor4528]

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

[@DeadlyHirsch]

you can see this with all prop planes, when you use half WEP the exhaust flames will stay the same as 100% throttle, using full WEP they‘ll turn purple/orange

[@unsaltedpeanuts1687]

One of the first things I spotted when f14 dropped. Best way to use this is when taking off, once you’ve reached Mach 1. just throttle down to 100, then back to wep by one singular scroll on the mouse wheel. You’ll save gas

[@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

[@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

[@DieErsteKartoffel]

The F-14 has a 5 stage afterburner

[@psychzach1588]

Great tip!

[@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..

[@pattonkeith]

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

[@adamlury6443]

Irl this would be a setting in the throttle that allows for some afterburners.

[@noelstefanson9600]

You can also tap the shift key INCREDIBLY fast and make it work

[@Goofyahmc]

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

[@AmericaWhereisOil]

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

[@callmecarlson58]

Then there's me who just takes min fuel, and never uses wep, and yes in top tier

[@Del80VR]

**explodes in realistic**

[@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.

[@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

[@lightningstrike5024]

ppl for get that when your going faster and at lower alt then you produce more thrust regardless and therefore use more fuel

[@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

[@S1su]

There’s actually 5 stages of afterburner in most of the top tier jets including the f-14 and the f16 U can see the difference by looking at your fuel (In the F-16 with my loadout u can fly at mach 1 at low altitude level flight only if ur using stages 2-5) I recomment to use stages 2-3 when flying straight depending on your jet’s fuel consumption)

[@Estuardomendez13]

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

[@MikeJones-mf2fw]

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

[@itodaigo3236]

I call it before burner… don’t question it

[@SABERWOLF2557]

Oh my god you're a fucking genius

[@CanadianAlchmst]

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

[@jooj_br]

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

[@Truck_Company_84]

Works wonders on the Phantoms lol

[@Neal_131_TCD]

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

[@yotamstaal8690]

It’s called multi stage after burner and you can tell it by learning the sec aproxemet waste time on your fuel gage Most modern jets have it in dule burner stages , the f14 has tripe stage so 3 stages of burner

[@the_charliecp8859]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@lucid5458]

“First stage afterburner” compared to full burn

[@jimbojazz6879]

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

[@dancomando]

Finally halfterburner

[@Garthamp]

step 1: play arcade so you don’t have to worry about fuel

[@ArclampSDR]

You can tell by the fuel flow rate metre in the plane

[@pensive7270]

Fuel consumption also tells you what your at.

[@goawayihavecommentstomake1488]

Everyone should already be doing this so that you can map pitch to W/S. You have more control when dogfighting with two inputs for the tailplane/elevators

[@OgmundrTyrsson]

Thanks for the tip holy shit

[@duskygaminguniverse3747]

Theres something awfully funny about break neck wep

[@sorrymabbad]

Hey, Friday Night, Party Tonight

[@uru2466]

Or alternatively press and hold w

[@Bulogan]

They have fixed the problem with a 100-110 percent

[@Nova-2836]

or, turn on the engine splitter and turn off one engine while letting the other stay at ~75%

[@daslynnter9841]

Or just use afterburner to get altitude then cruise to the battlefield at 80% then when in range up to 100 and when engaging use afterburner. Youre quieter and slightly harder to lock on to, can be good tactically, but primarily, if youre at alt, you dont gain much by flooring it to the battlefield, can drop to 100 and dive at -5 to somewhat keep up with afterburning jets, but you save so much in that 3 minutes before the fight starts.