Hey everyone,
I haven´t been flying for a while in my sim so it was time to return into flying. When I was about to taxi with my nice CRJ, I noticed, that my throttle is not responding. I checked the settings, all axis were assigned. I tried some things. I ended up having the throttle in my sim only responding after I input 50% thrust on my Thrustmaster Hotas X. Can´t figure out, how to fix this and the MSFS forum is horrible for asking about such an issue.

Hope someone here can help me out on this issue

If any screenshots or stuff like that are needed, just ask. Will try to provide every detail

Thank in advance
Paul

type game controllers  in widows search  and calibrate all your joysticks etc first thing to try !

and if that doesn't work, if I remember right that stick uses pots, not hall-effect sensors. They get gummed up over time and develop dead spots. Sometimes if they're not too far gone you can take the controller apart and clean the pots with contact cleaner, but sometimes they're just too worn out and need to be replaced.

Thrustmaster is generally in the budget stick category; if you get a few years out of most of their stuff, you're doing well. If you can afford the initial cost of higher end controllers, you'll save money over time because you won't have to replace it over and over.

 

 

Edited September 9, 20232 yr by eslader

On 9/8/2023 at 11:21 PM, sonny147 said:

type game controllers  in widows search  and calibrate all your joysticks etc first thing to try !

I think this one is not the problem. I have no problems in P3D at all. Everything there works just fine

1 hour ago, speedbirdmuc said:

I think this one is not the problem. I have no problems in P3D at all. Everything there works just fine

Then your settings in MSFS are screwed up. 

If calibration's not the issue I suppose the other obvious check is for duplicate throttle bindings. Failing that you might try deleting your current throttle binding, save, reboot the sim and do the binding again.

I've never had this problem with anything fixed-wing. But on some of the Cowan helicopters and also on the Miltech Osprey, my slider axis (collective and throttle respectively for those aircraft) has the same behavior.

I doubt the OP's issue is hardware degradation because that almost always shows up as controller spikes or no response at all. The advice to consider upgrading though is still a good idea.

You might first try to use some contact spray on the pots. "Kontakt 60" is fantastic!

On 9/17/2023 at 11:15 PM, Bobsk8 said:

Then your settings in MSFS are screwed up. 

Sure, this is the only thing to make sense.

Gonna reinstall MSFS, still have P3D as Back Up. Will report the results

5 hours ago, speedbirdmuc said:

Gonna reinstall MSFS

You will be wasting your time and bandwidth if you reinstall MSFS.
I find that the CRJ likes the throttle to use only the top half of its movement for flying.
So at centred, the throttle is at idle and I only have 50% of the movement to fly the aircraft,
just as you do.
In short, it's the aircraft, there is nothing wrong with the simulator or your hardware.
 

Edited October 2, 20232 yr by Reader