4.13 development update discussion and feedback

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Originally Posted by Derda508

In ´44 many rookies were trained on old, obsolete Italian fighters. In these machines you lowered throttle by pushing the lever in. As soon as they sat in much more powerful "modern" combat planes, it was just the other way round.

The French planes were also built this way - push the throttle to slow, pull it towards you to accelerate. Since the Luftwaffe also used a number of Dewoitine D.250 as fighter trainers, I could see those planes causing problems as well.

It's surprising that the Luftwaffe didn't think to fix this problem. I also have to wonder how many Free French or Italian Allied pilots flying British, Soviet or American types died because in a moment of panic they pushed the throttle the wrong way.