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[benitomuso]

People,
              since very early times we have been flying B-25 cockpit in new flyable 4 engine planes. Later "real" heavy plane cockpits were made but we always inherited only instruments (as typical for B-17, B-24 and B-29) where for RPM and Manifolde Pressure we have only motor 1 and 2 needles.

  Except from some British 4 engine bombers made from scratch by Ranwers, even the FW-200 inherits this behaviour from the original 2 engine B-25.

  Question: do any of you have real and close pictures of the B-17, B-24 and B-29 panels to see how they were? Did they have two instruments one for engine 1+2 and other for 3+4? Did they use a single instrument with 1+2+3+4?

  Another thing is that the thrust lever doesn't move independently. Typically if you select engine 1 and adjust with Hotas it works alone, but engine 2 moves the levers of engines 2+3+4.

  Regards,
                      Pablo

[Whiskey_Sierra_972]

I add only the downloads link due the photo are big!

http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt222/waltersolito/B29.jpg
http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt222/waltersolito/B24.jpg
http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt222/waltersolito/B17.jpg

I have also other plane....if need something just ask me!!!

[benitomuso]

Thank you Walter.

  Now it's very clear, it is as I supposed and so it confirms that we have instruments wrong assigned in all these planes. There was a pair of tachometers and a pair of manifold pressure sets. Left for engines 1+2 and right for engines 3+4.

  We would have to work out the cockpits.

  Regards,
                         Pablo

[Whiskey_Sierra_972]