My TM Warthog throttle has an afterburner detent, so that would work pretty well. Another HOTAS featuring this is the TM Cougar.

well we would need to pay attention to the throttle then, which would be simulating the real thing...not like its now where everybody can fly full throttle all the time, only focusing on the prop pitch....i dont mind to have the option to control it with a button, but hell i want the option to use it like it was in the real thing.
i have a ch throttle, and i cannot make it to work that way yet...has anybody achieved this?

That is very good feature, does the software allow to set that throttle travel to the game key function?...in general though, there are players who use number pad for the throttle, and so the reason the way it is in game.:)

With throttles that have the 'detent' I think it is just a physical feature of the unit and has no input to the software telling it has gone into detent, the game obviously has to cater for more varied hardware and the button is a simple and obvious way to cater for it, I think some game controllers software allow for setting up a 'ranged' controll in the profile setup wher in this case if a slider is pushed into a certain position it will simulate a button press, this might be a way for you to get your desired results.

good point, but i think that it was somehow intended to work in the game this way as well, as the output bar in the settings menu shows a output of 110%....
so i think that its supposed to work that way as well...and i seem to remember that last year i read a thread, where people were reporting that this is working in the RAF planes...i tried it back then in the 109 but never got it to work...and honestly i didnt think about whether its closer to reality or not back then...but know that i know that it should be working that way, i really want to make this working..

This happened back in IL2:1946 as well. Some aircraft you just pushed the throttle to full and you had emergency power, in some others you had to press the W key.

Another thing to keep in mind is that not all aircraft were physically setup like this in reality, so for some of them there simply is no way around the button. For example, in the 109 we should just be moving the throttle and watching the manifold pressure gauge but the Ju87 has a separate lever to activate WEP. Another example, in the Spit it was possible to just push the throttle through the gate but in the Hurricane the pilot had to pull the boost cut-out control.

In short, i agree that in some aircraft where we now have to press a button the more realistic thing would be to just push the throttle forward, but there are also aircraft where the button is the realistic way to go.

i totally agree with that Blackdog, and keep in mind, im all for options, so i wouldnt have a problem with keeping the possibility to use a button for it if someone really prefers it, but i would like to have the more realistic option as well....i dont think that it would be that hard to make for the devs...but its certainly down low in the priority list right now.