I found a couple of great fsuipc LUA scripts to use with the NGX for those who use hardware throttles like the saitek, think one been mentioned before in a posting, but thought I'd create a single thread and republish for those new NGX users or lucky simmers that got hardware for Christmas.

 

The first is a great LUA that allows you to easily set and control reverse thrust.

 

Basically you can assign a throttle lever so that when you bring it all the way down past the detent on the saitek throttle hardware which activates the button it puts the engines into reverse, so now when you push the levers forward you are controlling the amount of reverse thrust, so operating just like a throttle lever but controlling reverse, dropping it back to idle disengages reverse and you have normal throttle control, so it's a more realistic way of having reverse. You can map this to one lever, or two levers if you use multiple levers to control each engine. To me it's a very good way of making use of your throttles to better mirror how it be in real life just without a physical reverse thrust lever to pull.

 

Link http://forum.simflight.com/topic/69388-throttle-manager-to-allow-axis-forwardreverse-toggle/

 

Second one which comes with fsuipc and is in the LUA examples file, is a sync one. This is great for helping with correcting the issues that effect the throttle levers especially as they get older where although the physical position of two levers may look the same on your hardware, they haven't sent the same amount of travel to the sim so can find it hard to get your engines in sync.

 

Basically it monitors the engines and if they not quite synced it automatically syncs them, it still allows you to apply different thrust to each engine(say for turns on the ground etc) due to the parameters it uses for out of sync. But it's a great tool for flying manually especially approaches and not finding you have varying thrust on each engine due joystick calibration issues. Combined with the LUA above it again excellent at ensuring you apply symmetrical reverse thrust.

 

These have really enhanced my use of the NGX and hardware.

Thank you James,

 

looks interesting!

 

Robert

I could never get the throttle manager one to work consistently, many times only one engine would go into reverse and that is a very bad thing to happen, lol.

I've been using the first LUA reverse script mentioned above for the past year or so and it works really, really well on my Saitek TQ. I pull the throttle levers back to idle just before landing and then upon touchdown, pop the levers down onto the built-in lever-switches below the idle-detent to activate the LUA script and deploy the reversers. After confirming 'REV' above the N1 guages, just start pushing the levers forward and watch the N1 pickup speed - no need to go full reverse on the levers anymore as long as my speedbrakes deploy as scheduled. You get much more finite control to smoothly slow down the aircraft with less reverse thrust. After reaching about 80 or 70kts IAS, I pop the throttle levers back-down to the idle detent - with just a tiny bit of seperation so the LUA script is sure to see both idle detent events. It took me a few moments to figure out it was this idle detent event (from reverse) that stows reversers and the "REV" indicators dissapear above the N1 guages.

 

Although I haven't tried it as it's been a long time since I've flown the Queen or the MD-11, the latest LUA script version above was fixed to work with up to 4 levers simultaneously.

 

I give this LUA script my full/best endorsement possible. If you have the full FSUIPC with calibrations on the Saitek TQ's, do yourself a favor and give this a chance. It's better than having a built-in reverser zone below the idle detent like some of the older TQ's.

 

Kudos to the LUA script author - job well done!

Hi, looks interesting. Is there the same script for the CH throttle quadrant ?

Hi, looks interesting. Is there the same script for the CH throttle quadrant ?

I don't think so. IIRC, the CH TQ doesn't have the necessary toggle-switches at the bottom of the lever travel, below the idle detent. It's these toggle switches that cause the LUA script to reverse the lever calibration logic.

How do I get Lua to work in the fsx do I need Linda as well as Fsuipc. I have put in the V speed calculator for the Q400 but all it says is reading vspeeds nothing else, I have a fully registered version of Fsuipc. Any tip appreciated

Replying to reference this later on. 

Can this be PINNED please? This is an excellent little script..