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

That, ladies and gentlemen, is stage 1 afterburner

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

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

British planes gain 101% throttle with this

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.

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

No one's talking about the greatest background song choice

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You brought up so many Yakuza 0 memories with that song man

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

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😂

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

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)

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

Funnily enough (despite the snail adding the actual percentage on our HUDS now) there is a visual difference if you ever switch to cockpit cam. The fuel flow will be marginally lower on 1st stage ABs compared to full AB (It’s most easily seen in the Mirage 2000Cs as they have a digital flow meter as opposed to an analog one)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 ++

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

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.

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

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

Goated music choice btw

I love your music choice

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.

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Brother, it’s called stage 1 afterburner😂

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

I have the mig 21 lazuras and this helps a lot

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

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

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.

Love this trick and Friday night playing in the background 😊

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great background music

thank you so much for the tip

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Idk how to take off

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

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

Oh my god you're a fucking genius

Lower stage afterburners go brrrr.

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

I always do this… idk how old this video is by my throttle will tell me the percentage. I always run at 105% and when I need that boost I crank it to 110%. This video probably came out before they added this tho and I would have had no idea

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

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.

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE! There is a small amount of screen shake on full afterburner, while low afterburner as I like to call it, has no screen shake.

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

Great tip!

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

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

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

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

with the su-7bmk i just use afterburner for taking off or getting the fuck away from people

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

Finally halfterburner

"I will not sugar-coat it"

There's an alternative method to get full throttling control of your afterburner. Uninstall War Thunder and get the DCS tomcat instead.

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