Hi, I recently purchased my first PMDG aircraft, the BAe JS4100, and I have a little trouble here getting my Saitek Pro Flight Throttle Quadrant to work similar to the one in the JS4100. I wonder if someone here would be so nice to help me setting this up or at least pointing out the limitations of this "bundle". Please note that I'm not a very professional sim pilot. I'm rather new to this and I'm more a causal pilot. First of all if I put the condition lever on the Saitek quadrant to 100% it only sets the condition lever of the JS4100 to 96%. Which is in fact out of the take off, landing, climb and cruise range. I tried to play with neutral position (which apparently does nothing at all) and sensitivity, which I usually had at 100%. However I noticed that if reduce the sensibility the situation only gets worse. Anyway I was unable to get the last 4% out of the quadrant. The other thing I have trouble is to recalibrate the Saitek quadrant so I get a reverse range on the power lever and be able to pull the condition lever to feather/cutoff. I just don't get that at all. I mean it must be possible to calibrate the quadrant in that way that e.g. 25% on the Saitek quadrant basically is 1% or 0% on the power lever in the JS4100 and if I go below 25% then I'm going thru ground start into reveres. Max reverse would then be 0% on Saitek quadrant. The same for the condition lever. But no matter what I do it just seem I push the 0% around without getting a reverse range at all. I don't have the full version of FSUIPC and it would be preferable if it was not necessary to purchase it to solve these things. Of course if it is the only thing I can do please fill me in as well. Other than that I will in preparation for the Q400 the guys at PMGD are doing soon change from the Saitek Throttle Quadrant to the Go Flight TQ6 Quadrant (I think you can get quite a nice setup with this one which looks familiar to the one in an actual Dash8). So if there is a "trick" to that one to set it up the same way please don't hesitate to fill me in on that one as well. I'll be grateful.P.S.: @PMDG: Please consider a panel state save utility for your "value series" of aircraft too. I kinda suck at saving a panel state thru FSX, it never turns out the way it is supposed to be. It is so nice and easy to just pick a panel state (cold and dark, electrical system energized, engines running and so on) in an aircraft configuration tool and start the flight really the way you want to.Other than that I'm happy with your newly established "value series" of aircrafts and I am looking forward to your Q400. P.P.S.: I hope I did that right with name in the signature?

Only solution would be to get the full version of FSUIPC I'm afraid. It really is worth every cent!FRED

Hi,I recently purchased my first PMDG aircraft, the BAe JS4100, and I have a little trouble here getting my Saitek Pro Flight Throttle Quadrant to work similar to the one in the JS4100.I wonder if someone here would be so nice to help me setting this up or at least pointing out the limitations of this "bundle". Please note that I'm not a very professional sim pilot. I'm rather new to this and I'm more a causal pilot.First of all if I put the condition lever on the Saitek quadrant to 100% it only sets the condition lever of the JS4100 to 96%. Which is in fact out of the take off, landing, climb and cruise range. I tried to play with neutral position (which apparently does nothing at all) and sensitivity, which I usually had at 100%. However I noticed that if reduce the sensibility the situation only gets worse. Anyway I was unable to get the last 4% out of the quadrant.The other thing I have trouble is to recalibrate the Saitek quadrant so I get a reverse range on the power lever and be able to pull the condition lever to feather/cutoff. I just don't get that at all. I mean it must be possible to calibrate the quadrant in that way that e.g. 25% on the Saitek quadrant basically is 1% or 0% on the power lever in the JS4100 and if I go below 25% then I'm going thru ground start into reveres. Max reverse would then be 0% on Saitek quadrant. The same for the condition lever. But no matter what I do it just seem I push the 0% around without getting a reverse range at all.I don't have the full version of FSUIPC and it would be preferable if it was not necessary to purchase it to solve these things. Of course if it is the only thing I can do please fill me in as well.Other than that I will in preparation for the Q400 the guys at PMGD are doing soon change from the Saitek Throttle Quadrant to the Go Flight TQ6 Quadrant (I think you can get quite a nice setup with this one which looks familiar to the one in an actual Dash8). So if there is a "trick" to that one to set it up the same way please don't hesitate to fill me in on that one as well. I'll be grateful.P.S.: @PMDG: Please consider a panel state save utility for your "value series" of aircraft too. I kinda suck at saving a panel state thru FSX, it never turns out the way it is supposed to be. It is so nice and easy to just pick a panel state (cold and dark, electrical system energized, engines running and so on) in an aircraft configuration tool and start the flight really the way you want to.Other than that I'm happy with your newly established "value series" of aircrafts and I am looking forward to your Q400.P.P.S.: I hope I did that right with name in the signature?

Unfortunately FSUIPC is the product that will give you almost unlimited freedom with your sim interface, not to mention it will give you alot more functionality for FSX in many other aspects. It's worth it's weight in $ :)JB

Unfortunately FSUIPC is the product that will give you almost unlimited freedom with your sim interface, not to mention it will give you alot more functionality for FSX in many other aspects. It's worth it's weight in $ :)JB

I use the Pro Yoke with the J41 and I also suggest fsuipc. I have good reverse, full codition lever travel from 100% to feather and cutoff.Kdub

Thanks all I am using now FSUIPC. As I

I don't have the JS41, but do use the Saitek Pro Yoke. Try checking the "no reverser" box in FSUPIC and then calibrate the throttle lever with no dead zone, i.e., 0 when the lever is at the bottom stop. (Be sure to have no dead zones in Windows Saitek driver calibration.) Then pull the throttle lever into the bottom (red) area and assign that button to F2, with repeat. Assign F1 to the button when coming out of the "red" zone.This works for me for all aircraft.Jim Harnes

I just noticed that I actually get into reverse :( but only -25%. Is this supposed to be like that? Well I think the button solution is rather faulty since you basically can

Well I think the button solution is rather faulty since you basically can

Thanks all I am using now FSUIPC. As I

I know this is an older subject. I'm just making sure I understand correctly: I have to purchase another program to use this $45 software correctly with my Saitek Pro Flight Throttle? :(I already own FSUIPC 3.whatever it is in FS9. There's a $15+ upgrade price...

I know this is an older subject. I'm just making sure I understand correctly: I have to purchase another program to use this $45 software correctly with my Saitek Pro Flight Throttle? :(I already own FSUIPC 3.whatever it is in FS9. There's a $15+ upgrade price...

No, actually you don't need too purchase FSUIPC to get it to work (altough I strongly suggest you do), but you have to use the profiler tool shipped together with the Saitek yoke.Read the manuals, this tool is quite powerful if you know how to use it.

Does anyone want to share their FSUIPC settings that they use to get full range of their Condition levers and with the Saitek Throttle Quardrant? I may have a screwy fsuipc.ini or something and may need to scrap it and start over but curious how others may have theirs set up.Thanks,

Hi DanFor the condition levers I use the prop1 and prop2 axis assignment with the no reverse zone checked in the calibration tab of FSUIPC for both the throttles and prop axis, and up to know I don

Hi Jim,I too have the Saitek X52 joystick and throttle combo, are you running the SST programming utility? And if so, are you able to recognise each of the 3 modes in FSUIPC?Thanks

Hi JohnMy apologies for the late reply, but yes I run the SST programming software (version number SST_Software_64_6_6_6_9.exe) from Saitek, alongside FSUIPC and Vista 64Bit and I can program keypress combinations in all three modes, but as for FSUIPC recognising say button 4 as three separate joystick buttons for modes 1,2 and 3 when using the FSUIPC joystick buttons tab, I am pretty sure that FSUIPC (or FSX for that matter) is not programmed to be able to do that, they will both see button 4 as button 4 regardless of what position the mode select wheel Is in, because as far as I am aware FSUIPC just scans for any joysticks present and how many buttons that joystick has, it knows nothing about the SST software or the mode select wheel, but it will recognise any keypress combinations that SST has given to the same button 4 for the three different modes when you use the FSUIPC keypess tab.I have a feeling that the answer is not the one that you were hoping for.Jim Hodkinson