Not that I fly 'em often, but I have the Hughes (of course) and the Latécoère, and a Honeycomb Bravo. But neither MSFS nor Spad.next give me the option to control any more than 4 engines. Anyone find a way to control 6 engines with discrete axes?

 

I can only speak from the 747 perspective. I have dual Saitek TQs so even though I have enough axis for a four engine turbofan (don’t need axis for mixture or rpm), I don’t find that necessary for sim purposes at all. I just use a simple left and right side power. So in the 747, engine 1 and 2 are left throttle and engine 3 and 4 are right throttle. But that’s just me. 

For the six engine flying boat (I don’t own it), i would likely use the same technique.

I thought they were supposed to add the extras to MSFS itself. Only then will be be able to assign 5, 6, etc.

I have to resort to doing a binding in MSFS rather than FSUIPC where one axis controls all four engines.  I tried a few times to use FSUIPC to bind the left axis to engines 1&2 and the right axis to 3&4 without success on the bae-146.

I'm a simpleton with a single throttle axis, so every multi-engine plane I fly is bound to one throttle. If I need to manage a single engine I just use the mouse. 

I have the bravo and use two throttle levers, so two engines on each lever.  

So, to be clear, the problem is that I cannot choose engines 5 and 6 to assign them to anything at all. Any assignments can only go to the first four engines, whether I assign them all to a single axis or multiple axes. There's no 5 or 6 option in the settings for either MSFS or Spad.

34 minutes ago, eslader said:

So, to be clear, the problem is that I cannot choose engines 5 and 6 to assign them to anything at all. Any assignments can only go to the first four engines, whether I assign them all to a single axis or multiple axes. There's no 5 or 6 option in the settings for either MSFS or Spad.

I added above that the MSFS team was supposed to add those extra axes inside of MSFS. Until that's done, there's no axis to bind for those engines.

4 minutes ago, G550flyer said:

I added above that the MSFS team was supposed to add those extra axes inside of MSFS. Until that's done, there's no axis to bind for those engines.

Missed that, sorry.  I'd thought I saw that they did add it but I guess I saw that wrong somewhere. Kinda surprising, seeing as there's been a >4 engine plane out for months now. 

6 minutes ago, eslader said:

Missed that, sorry.  I'd thought I saw that they did add it but I guess I saw that wrong somewhere. Kinda surprising, seeing as there's been a >4 engine plane out for months now. 

Yeah, I can't believe they didn't add that yet. I know it seems pretty simple to do. I am also careful with that statement because what appears to be simple sometimes can be very complex🤣.

On 6/28/2023 at 4:23 PM, Dermot McClusky said:

I'm a simpleton with a single throttle axis, so every multi-engine plane I fly is bound to one throttle. If I need to manage a single engine I just use the mouse. 

😁👍

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An updated Version of the SPAD MSFS LVAR Bridge (v3.9) is available in <#989921926979911730>  to reflect changes in MSFS AAU2 Update

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MSFS: Engine Variables for Engines 5-8 have been added to the dataset. (No Application update neeeded, available after restarting SPAD.neXt)

https://discord.com/channels/229058021651644416/230437454279081995/1122695414546694155

Haven't tried it,  but read that.

Edited June 30, 20232 yr by Waldo Pepper

How did they do with the Mriya then?

Not sure If this helps, but I thought I would pass this one on.

 

On 6/28/2023 at 10:23 AM, Dermot McClusky said:

I'm a simpleton with a single throttle axis, so every multi-engine plane I fly is bound to one throttle. If I need to manage a single engine I just use the mouse. 

Same.