No, you have a serious comprehension problem. I never said you said throttle % is commonly used. But contrary to what you keep saying 0% throttle is idle & 100% throttle is max dry/military power even for the Tornado.

I am not the one missing the point.

Did I? Feel free to quote me directly on claiming throttle percentage is commonly used! If you can’t I suggest you shut up!
And as I said Tornado throttle settings are expressed in degrees, they don’t use percent at all!

The problem here is that these aircraft have a low RCS and fly very low, this in combination makes it difficult to spot them. The performance of the interceptors as such is of no concern here.

You have a serious comprehension problem. Try again…

Do you want to kid me? Where have I said that throttle percentage is commonly used? Oh nowhere you yet repeat it the third time! Why?

So why are to denying the fact then?

I’m not denying that RPM & throttle % aren’t linear, but in your anger to play the smart guy you entirely missed the point.

Thanks for the translations Arthuro. Btw AREOS should be available later this year, the testing at Mont-de-Marsan seems to progress well.

@jj,
what you left out is the “current year” dollars. What’s the then year dollars/au$?

We hear those cost claims from time to time it’s a never ending discussion until the real cost is achieved and that is when the aircraft are sold at that price. Up to date the aircraft is considerably more expensive, but it’s just LRIP.

Yes for ALL jet/turbine engines! As already posted % throttle is not very commonly used but when it is, 0% throttle is idle & 100% throttle is max dry/military with afterburner ‘throttle/power’ given as AB1, AB2, AB3…

And as already posted this is not true for the Tornado for example where throttle settings are expressed in degrees not percentage and there is no AB1, AB2… either. You have the min RH and max RH setting in an analogue range in between.

Assuming a linear corrilation between throttle & RPM…

What else, everything else wouldn’t make sense.

But the important fact is that 0% throttle is idle power, not zero power (aka engine off) & 100% throttle is max dry/military power, not max afterburner power.

That’s actually what I explained in my first reply to jj concerning that topic.