Joystick Autothrottle Issue

Hello,

I've read the intro and the pinned thread, so don't burn me yet (haha). :ph34r:

My issue is if I disconnect my joystick at the beginning of cruise (for safety and whatnot, my laptop occasionally moves around during cruise), and then reconnect my joystick on descent, the autothrottle doesn't work, and goes off the position of my throttle slide. I have to cycle the autothrottle arm switches to get it to work again. This only happens during descent, if I connect it prior to decent, no issues. Now someone might go and say just remember to connect prior to descent, but I have an issue where my joystick occasionally disconnects from my computer, probably a cord issue from what I found, and it is annoying. Not sure if anything can be done about that, but I thought I'd share that issue.

Also, a cool thing I seen, and one thing that I did not see mentioned, is that you cannot retract the leading edge slats at cruise. I am going to assume that this is realistic to the plane, but they won't retract until you get back down to below 10000ft. So just thought I'd share those two things, and maybe there is something that can be done about the first issue I've encountered.

-Tom H