As the topic suggests, I'm curious how Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog owners are setting up the power lever detents. I have reverse set successfully, but I'm having a hard time with achieving idle power. When I release the brakes, the aircraft is off to the races. I'd be melting brakes like nobody's business if I had to taxi like that in RL.

I have DISC set to 0 on mine and have the reverse set to -100. I use the little plastic thing in the throttle so that there is a detent in it that is meant for Afterburners in other jet sims I then push the throttle up to this and set that value in the DETENT field in the Majestic config panel then anything above that is max power.

It also works well for the condition lever as I have the lever position at the detent set to 900 and then above that is full prop.

Oh and just to clarify I have the left lever axis on the throttle quadrant assigned to be my throttle axis and the right lever set to prop control and the other small axis to the right of the throttles on the warthog I have that set to my spoiler axis for the tiller operation.

I have DISC set to 0 on mine and have the reverse set to -100. I use the little plastic thing in the throttle so that there is a detent in it that is meant for Afterburners in other jet sims I then push the throttle up to this and set that value in the DETENT field in the Majestic config panel then anything above that is max power.

It also works well for the condition lever as I have the lever position at the detent set to 900 and then above that is full prop.

Interesting, thanks. I'd forgotten about the afterburner gate. I'll give that a go. What is your idle detent set to?

Do you mean flight idle? I can't remember what value I have set for that but I don't need to know where that is as I think an alarm sounds when you go beneath that in flight. As for the "ground" idle for taxi-ing purposes that is the DISC detent on the throttle which I have set to zero.

Ah, there's my confusion. Yes, I was setting flight idle to 0. Thanks!

Do you mean flight idle? I can't remember what value I have set for that but I don't need to know where that is as I think an alarm sounds when you go beneath that in flight. As for the "ground" idle for taxi-ing purposes that is the DISC detent on the throttle which I have set to zero.

Would you mind sharing all of your detent values when you have a chance? I got it to stop moving forward now that I switched my focus to DISC instead of flight idle. But now I can't keep the aircraft from backing up when I release the brakes.

 

I have the control panel and FSX open at the same time so that I can see the values as I move the throttles to the various detents. But the value at the idle stop on the Warthog itself varies from 0 to ~130 despite calibration. No matter what I use for idle in the control panel (0, 100,...) the PLs drop below DISC when I pull the handles back to the stop.

I can't share my exact numbers as I'm away from home for the week but I would set your DISC to lowest recorded value on your throttle even if its a minus number and then use the reverse by setting the reverse detent on the throttle to an F2 key press via FSUIPC. I know it's a bit of a compromise but it works well with the Warthog throttle.