I don't recall ever having issues with RT in FS9, but I can't get any of the heavies to do RT in FSX. When I hold F2 during landing, the engine sound doesn't change much, plane doesn't decelerate much, and the animation on the engines shows very little movement of the engine covers. Thinking maybe it was related to DX10 I switched to DX9. No joy. Can someone tell me what i've got to do to get RT to play nice on my system? googling didn't turn up this exact problem. mostly what I find is questions from people who don't know how to engage RT...

Hi matehave you got Fsuipc.if so you can assign a button to reverse all engines through that.Tick the Repeat while held box so it keeps repeating the button press.Also make sure that you have calibrated your throttle so that the throttle goes all the way to Idle.might be a good idea to list your hardware specs so that people can see what you are using.different setups can sometimes need a different way of solving the same problem. cheers steveI use Saitek Yoke and throttlesand assign reverse thrust to two of the throttle levers

Maybe you can check if you've set a repeat rate for that special key (which is throttle decrease) in the default FSX key command options. There should be a small slider to the right with three repeat rate settings.When setting it higher it could help. Just assuming though.

I have the F2 assigned to a button on my yoke and yes the repeat slider in the settings does make a difference. If you want to tweak the RT of a particular AC, change the line in the aircraft.cfg file named "min_throttle-limit", usually a negative number, increase it, for example in the Lear I went from -0.25 to -0.50 - big diffrence in the sim.

still not working! I changed airbus 321 to -.5 from default of -.25 min throttle limit, calibrated joystick and I still cant get a solid reverse thrust. instead, I get a sporadic, wimpy reverse thrust action and animation. #####??? oh, and I assigned a joystick button to throttle decrease along with repeat. I also tried to record what's happening with the video recorder but that doesn't seem to want to work properly. I've played FS since the back in the 80's and have never had trouble with reverse thrust before. anyone got any other ideas? After all those changes I even tried using both versions of DX--no difference between them for this issue.

Hi matehave you got Fsuipc.if so you can assign a button to reverse all engines through that.Tick the Repeat while held box so it keeps repeating the button press.Also make sure that you have calibrated your throttle so that the throttle goes all the way to Idle.might be a good idea to list your hardware specs so that people can see what you are using.different setups can sometimes need a different way of solving the same problem. cheers steveI use Saitek Yoke and throttlesand assign reverse thrust to two of the throttle levers

Hi, i've got a Sager laptop with i7 2720QM, 8GB ram, Win 64, Nvidia GTX 650M. This problem has been ongoing since I installed FSX. just in case arming the spoilers (shift-fwd slash) is necessary for proper deployment of reverse thrust, I tried that too. still get half-assed reverse thrust with almost no braking effecting. the animation shows the engine cover barely retracting and it bounces between barely retracted and closed. this occurs on all jets. it's driving me nuts!

AHA!!! I just unplugged the joystick (Logitech Wingman Extreme) which has worked on all other versions of FS I've used it on, just fine. As soon as I unplugged it, I can now fully deploy reverse thrust, from the keyboard. I did this due to someone on another forum (been googling my fingers to the bone over this issue) complaining about reverse thrust not working and someone told them they had had that issue and it was due to interference from their joystick throttle (NOT a Wingman). So....now the question is how do I fix this incompatibility? I've already done several calibrations of the joystick (not that it ever seemed to need it), but I did it just to be sure.

Finally fixed it. First of all, let me say that after unplugging the Logitech, and getting reverse thruster to work, dumb me realized that I had a CH Products Yoke sitting around. Plugged it in and went flying. RT worked like a champ. tinkerered around some more with the Logitech, installed a driver from their website, still no joy. Decided to cheat on the calibration. Voila! Success. By "cheating" during calibration of the throttle slider, I got the Logitech to work properly, because by not moving the slider all the way to idle while calibrating, the s/w compensated and that changed the output so that engines would go to full idle. If I calibrate it the way one is supposed to, it won't work. Whew!! I hope this helps someone having similar problems.