November 18, 20223 yr Hello all, I have a Honeycomb Bravo quadrant, and I am trying to consider the best option for flying an Airbus, and weighing in the pros and cons of the Airbus addon pack for the bravo vs the Thrustmaster TCA set. I initially wondered why pay what just a set of handles cost when the TM was not that much more. The. I saw you need both the throttle and addon for all controls, but still could not find definitive info to decide. Before getting into each piece of hardware itself, I want to be sure I understand how it's *supposed* to work. For this consider I am an absolute airbus noob and going by a few videos I saw explaining the throttle. - I have seen that what is used in practice mostly are the points where the actual detents are - For using reversers the same but the reverse idle and max everse positions - Would this mean the detents are the TO/GA, FLX/MCT, CL,0/Idle So 4 there and then one for reverse idel and reverse max? - while normally its those points, pilot can disengage and do manual and in that case its the range betwen 0 and TOGA? Also for idle between 0 idle and max reverse? Is that more or less right or lots of mistakes? Back to the controllers I see: Bravo pack: -No detents - no axis for reverse? - no locking levers together? For the TM: - does have axis for idle? - has the detents (does it have the 6 or just 5) For both, how exactly does the sim know you're at a detent/position? Just by percentage of throttle? Because a button is pressed at any point of the motion? Being it's more used positioned at the detents, any reason to actually need an analog axis intead of just buttons at each detent location? (Except for "manual throttle flying"?) Which would you get and why in my situation and if you can get either? Thanks for the help/info.
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