I have a reverse thrust mechanism issue and hoping someone can help.  If I start flight on runway and throw engines into reverse the mechanism opens on the engines.  If I load up at the gate the mechanism doesn't open. If I start the flight from the gate, when the plane lands at the destination the mechanism doesn't open.  Reverse thrust works as the plane slows down as it should just the mechanism doesn't open.  If I start flight from runaway and land at destination mechanism opens.  Anyone seen this before.  Doesn't matter what livery I use including the FBW liveries.  This is with a clean install of MSFS today, though issue was hapenning before the clean install. Thanks

There are various options for reverse thrust in MFS. 

Maybe you're using the one that implies that you have to press a given button and keep pressing it as you apply throttle for the reversers to move? 

I'll check my settings at home and post here.

Other option is a toggle button which simply toggles reversers ON and then as you move the throttles the reversers move and you don't touch the button. You press it again to disengage the reversers.

Some control assignments in MFS are really not intuitive 😕

The video linked bellow may help:

[TUTORIAL] How to set REVERSE THRUST in MS Flight Simulator 2020 Quick & Easy Ep. 5 | No FSUIPC7 - YouTube

 

Edited July 27, 20232 yr by jcomm

It's not that reverse thrust doesn't work, it's that depending on where the flight starts from (gate or runway) the mechanism of the reverse thrust doesn't slide back and open on the engines  

 

Reverse thrust at gate:

 

Reverse thrust on runway:

 

And the same holds for landing.  If flight starts at gate the mechanism doesn't open on engines on landing and putting engines into reverse. If flight starts on runway the mechanism opens the engines on landing when put into reverse.

 

It's a strange issue.

Don't use the UI engine indicators as a basis to see if you're getting reverse thrust or not as they're not tied to our engine model. Use the engine displays on the upper ECAM. The engine indicators are defined in the upper area, see here for a reference.

1 hour ago, Lucky38i said:

Don't use the UI engine indicators as a basis to see if you're getting reverse thrust or not as they're not tied to our engine model.

Take a look at the engines in the picture, though. The reverser sleeve isn't deploying when it's at the gate with reverse thrust selected.

Seems like the issue is he's landing in external view and even though the reversers are working, the animation isn't always happening.

I'd guess this is more an Asobo visual model issue than a FBW-fixable one.

 

Edited July 27, 20232 yr by eslader

18 minutes ago, eslader said:

Take a look at the engines in the picture, though. The reverser sleeve isn't deploying when it's at the gate with reverse thrust selected.

Seems like the issue is he's landing in external view and even though the reversers are working, the animation isn't always happening.

I'd guess this is more an Asobo visual model issue than a FBW-fixable one.

 

Without any pictures of the ECAM I can't really assess what is happening in both situation. the UI is not at all in correlation to what is actually happening to the engine.

Doesn't seem your engines are running in the gate shot. When I flew DC10s, you could extend the reversers with the engines off just by using APU air. They are pneumatic. Not sure about scarebuses and if so, is it actually modeled 

Why appying the reversers at the gate?. These are only used after landing, and it's when they should work as intended. I have mine mapped to a button on my TWCS Thrustmaster Throttle (button #2, a yellow one at the right side), to toggle the reverse thrust ON and OFF, and then it has to be released. There's another option that seemed not to work for me, that is to HOLD the reverse while moving the throttle all the way up, simulating the required deceleration of the aircraft (the two options are well described in the FBW Documentation pertaining to calibration of the controls).

The reversers do work in that when I land and put the engines in reverse the plane slows downs as it should.  I can also hear the sound of the reverse thrust.  I happened to go to external view once and saw the sleeve wasn't open.  Thought it was maybe a one off thing until I saw it again. Then thought maybe it was the livery I used was old so tried another one but same issue.  Then i thought maybe it was the SIM.  I was having some other issues not related to this that over time got worse.  Then I decided to just uninstall and reinstall the SIM to fix those issues, which it did, and thought this issue would also resolve but it did not.  So then I did further testing and found under what conditions the sleeve would move and when it would not.  It's not the end of the world just strange so thought I would post and see if anyone has seen this and knew how to resolve.  I will try to get a picture from the ECAM later and post it.  I'm also going to try the Asobo A320 and see if the issue also happens with it.

Thanks

So I did some further testing.  I tried with the default Asobo A320, from the gate and it worked.

 

I then tested FBW A320 from the gate and it too worked. Here is the pic from ECAM:

 

Wonder if the test with the Asobo A320 triggered whatever was messing up before to reset itself or something.  Hmm.....I guess we shall see.

Again, not really a big deal as reverse thrust does work and that's really all that counts.

Have you calibrate your throttle in the efb? 

Throttle is calibrated the the levers move to the where they are supposed to go.