Can anyone advise how to calibrate the throttles in the Fenix, where one does not want the reverse to be part of the throttle axis?

Every tutorial for calibration is about the TCA, where people are assigning reverse as part of the axis.

For us humble Saitek Throttle Quad owners; where there is a button beyond the axis, for reverse, how can we set the calibration up?

I've had lot's of trouble with this; mainly thrust levers being stuck in reverse during engine start, after multiple configurations.

I just want no reverse on the axis - surely that's possible; not every one has a TCA?!

Thanks in advance.

Edited May 27, 20224 yr by JYW

When calibrate jus skip the part of the reverse. It is actually written in the documentation somewhere 

During the calibration process, the reverse and idle positions are calibrated with the throttle left in the same place.

After you do that, to get reverse thrust...

1. Touch down, throttle on stick to idle.
2. Quick press on F1 key (this just reinsurers that you are in idle) 
3. Press and hold F2 to increase reverse thrust to max.
4. Press F1 again to return to idle.

Thanks so much guys!

I must admit, I was looking for some sort of setting to turn reverse on axis off, so didn't try just skipping those assignments.

Worked a treat, thanks again guys.

Assign a button to toggle reverse thrust in MSFS. After landing press the button, and the throttle will control the amount of reverse thrust you want. Hot the button again and you can taxi in forward thrust. 

8 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

Assign a button to toggle reverse thrust in MSFS. After landing press the button, and the throttle will control the amount of reverse thrust you want. Hot the button again and you can taxi in forward thrust. 

Thanks Bob. I seen that method on a YouTube video but, as a personal preference, I don't like moving the throttle forwards to set reverse.   I know it's odd - shouldn't matter, right? 😄 

It's all working great now, I just have all reverse configuration OFF on the Fenix calibration, and have the button at the end of my throttle 1 axis set to "HOLD REVERSE THRUST" within MSFS settings.  Works a treat for my preference.

Edited May 27, 20224 yr by JYW

1 hour ago, JYW said:

Thanks Bob. I seen that method on a YouTube video but, as a personal preference, I don't like moving the throttle forwards to set reverse.   I know it's odd - shouldn't matter, right? 😄 

It's all working great now, I just have all reverse configuration OFF on the Fenix calibration, and have the button at the end of my throttle 1 axis set to "HOLD REVERSE THRUST" within MSFS settings.  Works a treat for my preference.

 I tried your setting this morning, then I found that once set, I couldn't get out of reverse thrust>>>

Edited May 27, 20224 yr by Bobsk8

2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Assign a button to toggle reverse thrust in MSFS. After landing press the button, and the throttle will control the amount of reverse thrust you want. Hot the button again and you can taxi in forward thrust. 

Thanks Bob. Didn't know that. I put F1 and F2 on stick buttons, but I'm going to change that now. 

I have calibrated with FSUIPC, however, the same thing will work with MSFS calibration.

For the Honeycomb Bravo - Move levers to reverse position.  This is a button and set  "HOLD REVERSE THRUST" .  Pull the levers, also a button and set to "Decrease Thrust", repeat when held.  This will increase the Rev thrust.

I setup and calibrated the Honeycomb Bravo with Boeing levers without a problem. The fmc configuration worked well and reverse worked as it should.

I have purchased the Bravo Airbus throttles but can't get the reversers to work. The issue is the reverse handles on the airbus throttle do not map to a function because they are not buttons like the Boeing levers.

The Fenix Honeycomb guide is confusing regarding the Airbus levers. Anybody got the Airbus levers to work correctly?

Edited May 27, 20224 yr by MrBitstFlyer

https://kb.fenixsim.com/calibrating-your-honeycomb-bravo

Worked for me 🙂

Edited May 27, 20224 yr by PuffeB

Sorry for resurrecting this old thread. But there seems to be an issue with the FenixV2 - at least for me.

I have the Honeycomb Bravo (with no Reverse on the Axis). In FenixV1 setting up a custom calibration worked fine like described here: Leave the throttle at the zero position for max reverse, idle reverse and idle. Then the Fenix recognized the zero position as idle and there was no reverse on the axis.

But when I do the same now, the FenixV2 recognizes the zero position as idle reverse. To get idle I have to move the throttle a little forward. So now I have idle reverse on the axis and I see no way to get rid of it.

If I use the default calibration it works fine though, no reverse on the axis. But I'd like to make some adjustments for Climb and MCT.

 

Anybody else with this problem?

 

And in this context, does anybody know if the calibration is saved to a file somewhere? So maybe that file can be edited as a workaround?

Thanks!

Edited August 16, 20232 yr by RALF9636

1 hour ago, RALF9636 said:

Sorry for resurrecting this old thread. But there seems to be an issue with the FenixV2 - at least for me.

I have the Honeycomb Bravo (with no Reverse on the Axis). In FenixV1 setting up a custom calibration worked fine like described here: Leave the throttle at the zero position for max reverse, idle reverse and idle. Then the Fenix recognized the zero position as idle and there was no reverse on the axis.

But when I do the same now, the FenixV2 recognizes the zero position as idle reverse. To get idle I have to move the throttle a little forward. So now I have idle reverse on the axis and I see no way to get rid of it.

If I use the default calibration it works fine though, no reverse on the axis. But I'd like to make some adjustments for Climb and MCT.

 

Anybody else with this problem?

 

And in this context, does anybody know if the calibration is saved to a file somewhere? So maybe that file can be edited as a workaround?

Thanks!

I had that happen with V1 actually. I recently got spad and decided to recalibrate and it did what you are describing. I don't know how it remedied itself because I put it away for a day or two and when I came back, I recalibrated again and it worked.

8 hours ago, Kevin_28 said:

I had that happen with V1 actually. I recently got spad and decided to recalibrate and it did what you are describing. I don't know how it remedied itself because I put it away for a day or two and when I came back, I recalibrated again and it worked.

Thanks for taking the time to post this - and for mentioning Spad. I use AAO so I figured the issue might be related to Spad/AAO.

So I calibrated max reverse, idle reverse and idle without AAO running and only started AAO afterwards.

Now it works fine. Might be just coincidence as well of course.

Anyway this is [solved] again.