Hello, I am a brand new owner of the C90B. As I was looking at the instrumentation, I noticed some changes from the piston planes I usually fly. In particular, the throttles ( Power Levers in a turboprop, I think), have four possible settings: reverse, grd idle, fly idle, full power. I use the throttle quadrant from Saitek, and I am wondering how to set the throttle from Saitek to match those four settings? I have FSUIPC registered version, but wouldn't know how to set the throttle axis up correctly. I would appreciate if you could help me out, and tell me how you do manage the quadrant in the C90B, many thanks in advance,

 

Enrico

So, I guess, problem solved, easier said than done!!

 

Enrico

Perhaps the link below can help. There is also a pretty inexpensive source for a C90 POH. A search of this C90 Forum should allow you to find the link. It is well worth it as it contains tables for power and RPM settings at 2,000 ft increments for Outside Air Temps (OAT) at approx 10 degree increments starting from -30C and continuing to +30C.

 

http://www.pprune.or...-throttles.html

 

Here is the link to the C90 Pilots Operation Handbook, for $5.00.

 

http://shop.kingairtraining.com/C90B-Pilots-Operating-Handbook-and-Airplane-Flight-Manual-0004.htm

So, I guess, problem solved, easier said than done!!

 

Enrico

 

Enrico, would you mind to share some details setting up throttle? I would greatly appreciate getting a solution on how to manage the "ground" range. Got nearly anything done setting up the TQ but that one is unsolved for me. I use 2 TQs and have registered version of latest FSUIPC, too.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Torsten

Yes some pics if you can would be good.

Caper and megs8888 have asked me how I set my throttle quadrant for the C90B aircraft, so here it goes; as a note, I have the Saitek throttle quadrant, one only, so 1 lever for Power Lever, one for Props Pitch, and one for Condition Levers. In this brief expanation I will only show the throttle part, as the pitch prop and condition levers set up works the same.

 

The way I set it lets me control the two Power Levers of the aircraft with the one throttle quadrant power lever I have.

 

First, open up FSUIPC, and calibrate your throttle, pitch prop and condition levers, by going under the Axis Assignment tab. After you have done that, let's see how to set the Power Lever, so that it will read the different positions we find on the C90B quadrant.

 

First thing, in FSUIPC go under the Joystick Calibration tab, and in the "throttle(direct)" section, put a check mark in the "Map to four throttle" square. Once you do that, right above you will read: "Axis mapped-see page 3".

 

 

 

So, let's go to page 3, and set the Power Levers. We will set the Throttle 1 on page 3, and that will take care of the other three levers as well. The C90B has only two Power levers, but that won't be a problem, with the one throttle on the Saitek, we will control both C90B Power Levers. If you have two throttle levers available, you'll set them by going right to page 3 of FSUIPC, and by setting of course only two of the four available in FSUIPC.

 

 

This is how I you do it: move the throttle lever of the Saitek quadrant all the way forward, and hit "Set", under MAX (remember we are working in FSUIPC on page 3, Throttle1).That should give you a value of 16383; then move the lever into a position where you want the engine to be in idle, and hit set, under the Idle position. Idle requires a range, so you decide how much of a range zone you need. I chose the idle range right above and below the 50 mark on the Saitek, and hit set on both positions.

Last, move the throttle lever all the way towards you (aft), and hit Set, under Reverse.

Here are some pictures of my throttle quadrant, where the range right above and below 50 on Saitek corresponds to Idle on the C90B quadrant, and below that 50, the Power lever will move first to the ground fine position, and then into reverse.

 

 

 

As you can see, it is very easy to set it up. Of course, you can define where on Saitek you want the lever to be on idle, it can be on the 50 mark, on the 75, just know that the idle position you decide to set on the Saitek quadrant will correspond to the idle position on the C90B quadrant. Some of you might have other controllers, the all process works the same way, set max, idle range, and reverse positions on your quadrant.

 

This is a very simple and short tutorial, I hope my explaining was clear enough. As I said before, I have only one Saitek quadrant, so if you have this same configuration, you will have to set FSUIPC to control 4 throttles, if you have two Saitek quadrants, and two throttle levers, you'll just go straight into page 3 of FSUIPC, without putting the check mark "Map to 4 throttles" on page 1, under Joystick calibration, and you will have to set up your two throttles separately.

The all set up process takes only a few minutes, and with this brief explanation I hope I helped those who are not sure as to how properly work and set idle and reverse in FSUIPC. Take care averyone

 

Enrico :wink:

Great enrich thanks for doing that appreciate it, Wayne.

Thank you so much, Enrico. That did the trick. I always tried to set the idle range too close to the detent position, but this didn't really work. In addition, I choosed the button-solution in FSUIPC for the reverse. So I selected "no reverse zone" when adjusting the levers. Great explanation! :Applause: