Thanks for you replys, Pete, I can see you're a pretty strong believer in what you say, so i'll try to reword what I'm asking as to not offend anyone's sensibilities. So, as the pic under my name suggests, I fly on the E-3 for the Air Force, and I notice a lot of little things that the pilots do when I sit up front. For instance, after landing, on the taxi back to parking, we shut down the outboard engines (1 and 4). During cruise, the throttles are staggered to where the EPR values match between let's say engines 2 and 3 and then 1 and 4 match at a slightly lower value? Does that kind of make sense now. I'm not real interested in having one throttle control two engines on the same side, because I fly mostly jets in FS, the only four engine prop I fly is the Herc, and I'm not familiar with how they operate.
Jeff