Good point  Pivot...

Are you who have success on the beta branch? Or, just plain current version of the sim?

Edited December 20, 20214 yr by RichieFly
disambiguate words

If you use a program like SPADneXt or Axis and Ohs, you can assign a button press that will move the throttle into the Beta range, although you can't adjust the Beta amount like you can with an axis.

My TQ6 works fine mapped through FSUIPC.

LouP

3 hours ago, RichieFly said:

Good point  Pivot...

Are you who have success on the beta branch? Or, just plain current version of the sim?

Non-Beta, patiently awaiting the next full update..

7 hours ago, Flic1 said:

Can confirm this works great!  I have the Honeycomb TQ and have the TO-GA button assigned to "Hold Throttle Reverse Thrust'.  When at idle, just hold the button and increase the throttle!  You can use this when taxiing as well to get it into Beta just a bit instead of using your brakes. Works perfectly for a Turboprop!

For some reason this just doesn't work for me...not sure why.

Also, curious as to whether anybody knows if there is a way to use the detent on my Honeycomb TQ mixture axis, as the position for Cut Off on the fuel condition? Then moving the lever out of the detent would take the condition to low idle, and advancing to max would go to high idle.

Quick fix on my Honeycomb was to assigned button 8 as "Throttle cut", and button 7 as "Decrease Throttle".   This effects the right hand half of the trim adjustment slider only.  Both sliders used together still adjust trim as usual ... right slider only toggles beta. 

Edited December 23, 20214 yr by R1200RTPilot

Hi all,

Having a bit of a challenge setting up the reverse thrust also.

This is on my TM T16000 setup 'Hold Throttle Reverse Thrust' sort of works: to get reverse thrust I've got to push the throttle forwards, then hit the assigned button. This then applies reverse thrust at that amount. However, it only applies it for ~1 second before reverting to fwd power, and if I move the throttle then that 'cancels' the reverse and gives me fwd thrust. Pressing and holding doesn't maintain the reverse thrust, and once I've done it once, it becomes very temperamental for a few seconds before working again.

'Toggle Throttle Reverse Thrust' is slightly better in that it stays reversed. However, I still have the same issue re having to give fwd thrust then reversing that value.

Clearly, this is not quite ideal for landings.

 

Ideally, what I'd like is to reduce fwd thrust to 0%, then press a button (hold or as a toggle; I'd prefer the former, but at this stage I'd take either!) and then advance the throttle to give more reverse.

Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.

Edited December 26, 20214 yr by dfl1010

Here is what I did that practically makes the plane stop on a Twinsize bed sheet. 

I have a CH Fighterstick that I removed the Y-axis spring from and wedged a thin piece of plastic to make the Y-axis stiff.

1) Set up the Y-axis to where full movement of the Y-axis equals full movement of the Sensitivity settingis in the flight sim. This now makes it so when you move the Y-axis halfway back (50%) (centered) that throttle is zero. Then pulling back past centered (50%) activates reverse thrust.

I believe it may be important that the axis is not reversed.

But now you lose a lot of throttle travel and you want to fine tune that. You only need reverse thrust for a small portion of the axis travel and not 50% half way.

So I then

2) Increase the neutrality to 70-80 so now 70-80% of the Y-axis pullback equals zero throttle. And pullling it back further activates reverse thrust. That way you are only using 20-30 % of the axis travel for reverse thrust.

So now the reverse thruster does not activate until the axis is pulled back 70-80 %. 

 

 

Edited December 26, 20214 yr by MSFLYER5856

On 12/20/2021 at 2:21 PM, markadeane said:

For anyone with a TM Warthog HOTAS setup, I've worked out a means to set up the two independent thrust levers to act as condition lever and thrust lever quite elegantly. (if you have throttle/mixture/propeller hardware, disregard this of course!)

Unlatch the throttle link to give you independent thrust levers, go into the controls setup, map the lever of your choice to condition/mixture axis. I used the left lever because it is smaller.
Next, go into the axis sensitivity settings. Set parameters for that axis as follows:

Sensitivity- 1%
Sensitivity+ 1%
Deadzone 0%
Neutral 0%
Extremity deadzone 3% (this is the key setting to make this work)
Reactivity 100%

Then assign the cutoff gate 'button' (the one that you trigger by lifting the lever up and back) to the command for Mixture to lean.
The end result is that the axis at idle corresponds to the kodiak low idle gate, and full forward corresponds to kodiak condition lever full forward. You can then easily move between HI and LO idle without accidentally going to cut off. Then, when you want to shut down, lift/retard the lever back into the cut-off position and the engine will shut down. On start up, motor the engine and at >14% lift the lever out of the cutoff detent and the engine will come to life. Much easier that panning down to use the mouse on landing roll out!

Your exact sensitivity settings may differ, but this should get you into the ballpark. It worked for me on a brand new TM warthog but you might need to fine tune it. 

The other lever is now your thrust lever of course. Like others here, I added the thrust lever cutoff gate 'button' for that lever to the 'reduce thrust' (i.e. F2) command, so that it simulates going into reverse. As stated above, that will result in maximum reverse, which is not exactly realistic in all cases, but it makes you feel cool as all hell when you do it. 😆

For those times when max reverse is a little too showy, you can still assign one of the other buttons to the reduce thrust (F2) command, for those times when a little nuance is called for.

Anyway, hope this is of interest to any warthog owners out there. I really love this plane, the best GA release for MSFS2020 so far and I see myself putting many many hours on her.

Excellent find Mark...