15 minutes ago, GlideBy said:

I don't know, but from this video I get a different impression.  https://youtu.be/OguKthkuaT4?t=431

"in most cases, if we are doing a quick turnaround for example, we select second detent reverse thrusters."  So, is it most airports in some countries, or world wide, or plane dependant, wet/slippery runway, or what?

Just read the section 'noise' for the airport concerned. It usually says: reverse thrust higher than idle only for safety reasons. This has nothing to do with the aircraft, only the airport.

On some airports more than idle reverse is only forbidden at night etc.

On more item; Many operators don't allow their crews to land on runways with reported poor braking action. If you apply max reverse under these conditions and the engines don't spool up perfectly symetrical, you will get into real trouble very quickly!

Most important:  Aircraft are no spaceships! There are usually NO 'reverse thrusters' on any aircraft! 

Edited February 4, 20206 yr by FDEdev

29 minutes ago, FDEdev said:

Just read the section 'noise' for the airport concerned. It usually says: reverse thrust higher than idle only for safety reasons.

So, I guess my question is, do most airports have this rule?  Or more specifically do most airports that can handle say a 737, have that rule?  (Fixed the thrusters/thrust...)

3 hours ago, cobo said:

My cabin was build with two seats and all the components for a crew of two, since my kid at age 4 was asking o get in. finally taking control on a real plane up in the air years later.

I have wired most of switches and such as well as a tiller to this PC board. Slowly working on it.

best regards

 

Yes pretty sure it will have it, they already confirmed the sim is being build with support for home-cockpit builders.

Actually Asobo build one themself to make sure everything work correctly for custom sim builders so you will be alright.

I believe it is in their cockpit discovery video. Anyway have fun building (it is a lot of fun I have been there once..)

41 minutes ago, adino said:

Yes pretty sure it will have it, they already confirmed the sim is being build with support for home-cockpit builders.

Actually Asobo build one themself to make sure everything work correctly for custom sim builders so you will be alright.

I believe it is in their cockpit discovery video. Anyway have fun building (it is a lot of fun I have been there once..)

Nice!

7 hours ago, GlideBy said:

So, I guess my question is, do most airports have this rule?  Or more specifically do most airports that can handle say a 737, have that rule?  (Fixed the thrusters/thrust...)

Since there are more than 40000 airports worldwide, I don't know.  Justed checked a few big ones in Europe and e.g. at London and Paris reverse thrust is prohibited during night time and at Vienna and Frankfurt it's prohibited 24/7.

 

The soon to be released Honeycomb B Throttle quadrant incorporates reverse thrust levers , so I would imagine there is nothing to worry about in that regard.

I use Button 2 on my CH Flightstick Pro joystick (the centre one at the rear), and hold it down to increase thrust reverse power. I then slightly flick the throttle forwards and backwards once to disengage. Works a treat.

8 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

I use Button 2 on my CH Flightstick Pro joystick (the centre one at the rear), and hold it down to increase thrust reverse power. I then slightly flick the throttle forwards and backwards once to disengage. Works a treat.

 

Yep, thats what I used to do with my Precision Pro. 

Very similar here. I'm using the buttons on the RH side of my T16000M like on a real thrust lever quadrant. The 2 inner buttons for the speedbrakes, the center buttons for idle and reverse and the outer buttons for the flaps.

Given how airliners are becoming more and more computerised, it wouldn't surprise me if, on the next real new Airbus, you had to press F2 to activate the reversers, just like in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

18 hours ago, stewartforgie said:

The soon to be released Honeycomb B Throttle quadrant incorporates reverse thrust levers , so I would imagine there is nothing to worry about in that regard.

I made my our reversers on a Throttle I have, and yes I will be getting Honeycomb's as they release it. 

And all the flights, (maybe a couple not) I seen reverses and increased thrust at time as needed or desired by flight crew. at times I felt it was too much, but what do I know, I was not in the cockpit. This is in the USA and Latin-American countries I been at.

Argentina, Colombia, Honduras, Panama, Also USA, Canada. Just to name a few.

To be honest, I don't recall landings at  Asia and Europe. or Australia... 

The flights are long...

My post is related to MS implementing it as Xplane11 did.

Best regards

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by cobo

1 hour ago, cobo said:

And all the flights, (maybe a couple not) I seen reverses and increased thrust at time as needed or desired by flight crew.

My post is related to MS implementing it as Xplane11 did.

And the point is that the throttles never move forward when reverse thrust is increased above idle reverse.

The way x-plane does it is wrong.

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by FDEdev

Based on my visits to Manchester Airport in the past, I have a hard time believing that there was any "idle" restriction with respect to thrust reversers. Most of them sounded pretty loud to me!

23 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Based on my visits to Manchester Airport in the past, I have a hard time believing that there was any "idle" restriction with respect to thrust reversers. Most of them sounded pretty loud to me!

It took me less than a minute with google to find this for EGCC:

2.1.3. REVERSE THRUST Avoid use of reverse thrust consistent with the safe operation of the ACFT, especially between 2300-0700LT.

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by FDEdev

4 hours ago, FDEdev said:

The way x-plane does it is wrong.

x-plane doesn't specify such things, the aircraft author does, changing it yourself is also straight forward.

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Aircraft also don't use reverse thrust to stop, they only use it to reduce the load on the brakes, to help stop them overheating like:

stopping distance with/without is identical, more reverse thrust = less autobrake.

On 2/4/2020 at 9:38 PM, FDEdev said:

There are usually NO 'reverse thrusters' on any aircraft! 

Some variable prop aircraft can rotate the props to direct thrust forwards, for example the AT72 (really noisy), big tubes have cowls that come out of the sides of the jet engines, directing jet thrust forwards. There was a fault in I forget which plane where the reverse thrust engaged on one side during flight and caused the plane to crash

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by mSparks