It's always been annoying me a bit that brake levers that uses notches, are still displayed in percentages. But recently I've picked up NY-Trenton route, and dang, that's even more annoying. When setting the ALP-46 brakes into "Lap" it'll display as 100%, even without any brake force actually being applied. Then setting it into "Ser" still displays 100%, as it wouldn't make any difference... pushing the lever back to "Hold" will display 0%, as if no braking force is applied. And then there's release, because apperently you can apply -100% braking force on a train? DTG Matt why did DTG reinvent the wheel, considering TSC already displays the actual stances of throttle, brake and reverser levels (the latter one relevant for trains with multiple traction), rather than taking the TSW approach of trying to fit in everything on a 0 to 100 scale (or -100 to 100 scale)? Just display "Lap", "Hold", "Rel" in the interface, and use notches in the UI for any trains that use notches. I'd consider that a lot more useful and a lot less confusing. Also no clue why the ALP-46 need an extra keyboard key press to get the brakes from Lap-->Hold-->Rel , while I can simply hold the keyboard key on the F40PH-2CAT which uses similar brakes. And the locos may actually help you with some sounds of airflow to help you distinguish between 100% or 100% braking force (pun intended, I mean between "lap" and "ser"), but in the NJT cabcar I have no audio indication of what the train is actually doing with its airflow. Oh, and for throttle, DTG is doing the opposite; it's displayed in numbers as if it were notches, even for locos that don't use notches for their throttle...
The Amtrak cabcar displays "release" as 0% (which is correct, but different from the -100% used for the NJT cabcar), but the "Initial Application" still shows a 0% on the HUD. It cannot be 0% because it is actually applying braking force. The more I think about it, the more illogical the HUD is... there seems to be no consistency, and the numbers used are causing more confusing than they actually provide information. I've learned how to drive these trains, in huge part thanks to TSC.
