On 10/16/2021 at 7:28 PM, 109Sqn said:

You can indeed. I use it with the Fulcrum One Yoke (and also use my Thrustmaster Airbus sidestick for various button options, along with the matching throttle's buttons).

Cool, so I assume the Alpha and Bravo each have their own USB connection and do not interconnect with each other, that is good news.

Another question:  Does the Bravo have detents? on which levers? are they adjustable? 

(I have a lot of questions since one can no longer just walk into a specialty store and actually touch these things anymore.)

1 hour ago, Mike S KPDX said:

I assume the Alpha and Bravo each have their own USB connection and do not interconnect with each other

Correct.

1 hour ago, Mike S KPDX said:

Does the Bravo have detents?

No detents, other than a 'negative' setting (e.g. for reverse thrust) on each of the 6 levers. They do have marked detents though: Nose Up/Trim/Nose Down; Flight Detent/Armed/Down; 0-45 degrees (on two levers); Flap degrees (0-40) and 0-4 & Full.

There is a 3D printed add-on for lever detents on ebay. It has a spring-loaded flap lever included. The company does a few other items at http://www.allthings3d.co.uk I may well pick one up at some point.

Are the Airbus throttles worth it? Depends on how realistic you want things. You can do everything the Airbus throttles offer with the commercial throttle set that comes with the bravo throttles. There are two switches for toga that you can mount on the throttles ,kinda neat but the regular throttles also have a toga switch. there are 4 throttles that come with it but only 2 have reverse levers(just like a real A-380), you would just use the #2 and#3 throttles for an A-320. The reverse levers actually don't do anything other than unlock the throttles so you can physically move the throttles to the rear(just like the commercial throttle set), the reverse levers are not on an axis or switch, the switches for reverse are on the reverse  movement of the actual throttle(just like the commercial set). The flap handle is neat because you have to pull up the bottom of the lever to move the lever, there are no detents, this pull up lever is on a spring with a friction bottom which causes drag on the lever until you pull it up, simple but it works, I believe the actual Airbus flaps are detented. The spoiler lever just looks like an Airbus spoiler lever, it works exactly like the commercial spoiler lever. Would I buy them again? Probably not, just too much money to do basically what the commercial throttles already do and since I just fly V.R. I don't even see the throttles when I fly.

@Daytona125 I didn't consider buying the Airbus levers for 2 reasons: 1) I have the Thrustmaster quadrant already and 2) I thought about them just exactly the way you just said.😄

 

(Well, apart from VR as I don't use it).

Edited October 18, 20214 yr by 109Sqn

I also place my keyboard on top of the units, however I might pick up something like a Rii 8 mini keyboard as a secondary keyboard when using the simulator. 
but I guess this is off topic. 

Edited October 18, 20214 yr by flyinpilot212121