I want to document the procedures by which you can easily program the CH Products Throttle Quadrant to perform thrust reverser and spoiler deployment in FS9. I am doing this partly to help out those of you who want to learn this without delving into FSUIPC, and mostly so that I can search for these instructions in case I forget the process again in the future.What you need: CH Products Throttle Quadrant (TQ) and CH Products Control Manager (CM).What you will accomplish: Thrust reversing on equipped jet and propeller aircraft. Spoiler deployment on the flaps axis.What you will not accomplish: Individually controllable thrust reversing on each engine, a big headache messing with functions better suited for nuclear physicists, or the pain of searching for endless hours only to never get the answers you seek.Step 1: Start CH Control Manager and create a map. Call it whatever you want.Step 2: Select the TQ and then calibrate all of the axes. CM guides you through this process very clearly. Close CM.Step 3: Start FS9, go to Settings/Assignments/Joystick Axes. In the drop down, go through each of your controls and delete any assignments that are not needed (ie; throttle assignment on yoke, rudder assignment on speedpad).Step 4: Make your TQ throttle assignments in the Joystick Axes, then switch over to the Buttons/Keys tab. Select the TQ in the drop down then scroll to the "Throttle decrease quickly" (F2) command. Click Change Assignment and pull back on TQ throttle number one past the detent. This should assign Button 13. Click OK then move the slider next to the command all the way to the right.Step 5: If you have one of your TQ axes assigned to flaps, you can add spoiler deployment in the same fashion to a lower position on that lever using the same assignment technique.Step 6: Go back to Settings/Sensitivities. Select the TQ from the dropdown. Move all of the sliders under "Sensitivity" all the way to the right. Move all of the sliders under "Null Zone" all the way to the left.Step 7: Go fly.Although I have been flying FS since the days of monochrome green screens, 5-1/4 inch floppies and the Apple IIc, as well as having just completed, configged and fired up my new FS power rig, I am by no means an expert on this stuff, nor do I consider myself a technogeek (despite what other people say). I merely provide you with a quick and dirty way to get what you want out of your sim without the hassles.I hope this helps some folks out. If not, I know it'll help me one day.

You have no idea how much I appreciate your doing this! After 6 weeks in "Saitek yoke/phantom command" purgatory, I finally gave up, returned the Saitek and went back to my CH Yoke, and then bought their throttle quad, so I was already very frustrated at the outset of the installation!I spent the entire next day from dawn until well past 1:00 AM trying to get the bloody FSUIPC module to work correctly with the CH quad, and give me reversers. I was so tired BY the wee hours of the morning, (and absolutely dreading the prospect of having to ask Peter Dowson for help!) that I decided to take a shot in the dark and do a search here first.You have truly made me a happy man -- although I must admit that the CH software and documentation is only marginally better than Dowson's! Thank you for taking the trouble of documenting this so many months ago.