Well, if there was this feature i know very well why it changed!
The huge crowd of "ignition, throttle to the wall, start across the field regardless of traffic"-crowd wailed so loud that it was removed.
Also removed were the more realistic torque effects.
All so that the named above people could just so claim to fly full real and not arcade settings.
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