12 hours ago, eslader said:

No, he's trying to convince you that this is a desktop flight simulator and, since we can't do it the way you do it in the real airplane because the hardware/software to make that happen is out of reach for most of us, this is how we have to do it in the desktop flight simulator.

Well ... it isn't out of reach. It can be done and IS done in a desktop flight simulator by default - however 'the other one' 🙂. It doesn't work only with the TCA Quadrant, but with every joystick.

 

Othrwise I couldn't have done docking the Twotter in my Maldives video (see from 13:20 mins on). Permanently switching the axis with a button back and forth and that additionally for 2 engines ... would be a headache and basically unachievable.

30 minutes ago, flying_carpet said:

Well ... it isn't out of reach. It can be done and IS done in a desktop flight simulator by default - however 'the other one' 🙂. It doesn't work only with the TCA Quadrant, but with every joystick.

 

Othrwise I couldn't have done docking the Twotter in my Maldives video (see from 13:20 mins on). Permanently switching the axis with a button back and forth and that additionally for 2 engines ... would be a headache and basically unachievable.

That’s great and all but how does this help OP’s problem in MSFS? 

Mind you this functionality works the same for aircraft that use throttle calibrators

On 4/30/2025 at 11:12 AM, flying_carpet said:

Well ... it isn't out of reach. It can be done and IS done in a desktop flight simulator by default - however 'the other one' 🙂. It doesn't work only with the TCA Quadrant, but with every joystick.

It's still out of reach. He wants to do it exactly the way you do it in a commercial jet. So you need a throttle quadrant that lets you pull the levers down to idle, where they stop. Then a separate axis which is attached to the regular throttle axis gets pulled back to engage and modulate reverse thrust.

There are controllers out there that look like they will do that, like the Honeycomb Bravo, but they won't. The reverse "axis" isn't an axis, it's a button. So you either have to program the button to engage some degree of reverse and hope you don't need a different level, ever, or you have to program it to change the regular throttle axis into a reverse throttle axis while it's held.  But he doesn't want that.

There are controllers out there that will do what he wants, but they're expensive. Throttletek makes a great 747 quadrant where everything looks, feels and functions like the real plane, but it's also more than $2,000 before shipping and tariffs. That's not within reach for the majority of simmers.