Hi

 

I have bought the yoke and quadrant as a kit and installed it on my pc over the weekend. I am having a couple of issues with the quadrant as follows which is spoiling my enjoyment and i would like to resolve them if possible:

• I am trying to use the left hand lever (with the black knob) as a throttle but whenever I push it up (slowly) nothing happens until I get to about the 75 mark and then the engines shoot upto 100% thrust – if I then move the lever down a fraction the engines go right back down again – I cannot seem to get a gentle increase on the throttle by moving the levers up slowly. I have tried adjusting the sensitivity and null zones within FSX but it makes no difference. I am sure this is not how the quadrant is supposed to work - can you advise what I am doing wrong or what I need to do to configure it correctly please ?
  
• I have assigned the flaps to the middle lever but the flaps do not extend or retract in stages – if I push the lever up to 25 nothing happens, to 50 and then 75 nothing happens – the flaps will only extend fully if I push the lever all the way up – can the quadrant not be configured so the flaps extend/retract in stages depending on how far you push the lever ?
  

 

 

I am using FSX on a Vista 64 bit PC

 

Thank you for any advice

Calibrate all the axis first.

For flaps, make sure that( in FSX) the sensitivity level is set to 100%, and the null is set to zero.

Do same for throttle.

tc

It's a while since I played around with the settings, I have two quadrants and the yoke and found that by using Pete Dowson's FSUIPC Application which kind of acts as a go between with flight simulator, you can fine tune many of your simulator settings, particularly game controllers. One of the advantages is that you can 'programme' these settings for specific aircraft eg single/multi engine. There are lots more tweaks within the programme. You can either use the free programme or purchase a licence. The latter gives you more scope. At first glance the user manuals look a little daunting but trial and error is the name of the game and like anything else take your time and play around with the settings until you have them set the way you want them. If you don't already have Pete's excellent application just search on Google and you'll find it without any problem. There's lots of tutorials around and some are quite specific to game controllers. I hope this helps.