I think he was saying in the 777 they need to be manually deployed, whereas in the Airbus they are armed. Just the absence of a comma (,) made it sound like you still need to deploy them manually when armed on an Airbus B)

Ok, I see

Nope, no need to arm spoilers for takeoff.

Here is an RTO in the Virgin Australia T7 sim.

 

This one is better:

 

Unfortunately it seems that the NULL zone in my throttle (CH Pro Throttle) is not at the full forward/backward positions, but at the center, as if it was a joystick. If I increase the null zone in the FSX control settings, I get a wider null area at about 50% N1, while in 1 takeoff out of 2 I don't manage to avoid the thrust going to full after HOLD engages, with the throttle pushed all the way forward. On the other end, I would like to avoid the A/T override, since it is not realistic that, during a rejected takeoff, you have to disconnet the A/T before bringing the thrust levers to idle.

Bit odd. Maybe FSUICP can help. I know I'v used a thing which changes which parts of the throttle produce different vectors of axis. For instance, making the lower 50% of the throttle control the bottom 35% of thrust, and the upper parts of the throttle control more (the rest) of the thrust. I needed to do this for the Maddog MD80 because the throttle response seems a bit too twitchy at the bottom of the thrust lever range (ie a human hair width pushes the throttle from idle to 70%, halfway up the throttle is 108%N1 and then the top 30% of the throttle is nothing... so I used FSUICP to smooth that out.)

 

There may be a way to use that feature to make the top 10% of the hardware throttle movement range be the top 0.01% of the throttle response.

This is the perfect time to show that excellent video "Children of Magenta" .

 

Yay! I'm not the only one that thinks so. Great video.

 

Autopilot is only there to reduce workload, not eliminate it. The old adage of "never let the aircraft fly anywhere your brain hasn't been 5 minutes earlier" applies *even more* with the autopilot engaged.

 

Best regards,

Robin.

You are right. It is easy to get complacent.

For sure it is, but I don't think anything that we've been talking about could lead anyone to believe we can't wait to set it and forget it.  No one is talking about being complacent, we're simply chatting about included features of the auto flight.

Bit odd. Maybe FSUICP can help. I know I'v used a thing which changes which parts of the throttle produce different vectors of axis. For instance, making the lower 50% of the throttle control the bottom 35% of thrust, and the upper parts of the throttle control more (the rest) of the thrust. I needed to do this for the Maddog MD80 because the throttle response seems a bit too twitchy at the bottom of the thrust lever range (ie a human hair width pushes the throttle from idle to 70%, halfway up the throttle is 108%N1 and then the top 30% of the throttle is nothing... so I used FSUICP to smooth that out.)

 

There may be a way to use that feature to make the top 10% of the hardware throttle movement range be the top 0.01% of the throttle response.

 

Thank you, it would help a lot! I will give a look at FSUIPC and see how that can be done.

Unfortunately I was not able to find a FSUIPC section where to do the throttle smoothing. Could you help me finding it?

Thank you very much!

Unfortunately I was not able to find a FSUIPC section where to do the throttle smoothing. Could you help me finding it?

Thank you very much!

Are you using the purchased registered version of FSUIPC?

 

The free version will not allow you to utilise numerous useful features of FSUIPC, one of them being the flight controls feature.

Are you using the purchased registered version of FSUIPC?

 

 

Yes, registered version.