The Hercules and Late-631 each have more than 4 engines. MSFS does not support assignments beyond engine number 4.
Please increase the assignment options to at LEAST 8 engines to cater for the Hercules which is an Official aircraft. The Late-631 will also be catered for.
12 engines would cater for a future Dornier Do X
Can we get more then four options to assign to a throttle? We have planes with six, eight, and more engines and it would be nice to set up our peripherals to use them. Thank you.
How is this not more voted on? Maybe those other planes just aren’t popular?
I thought it one of the early dev streams they had mentioned there were going to be more but I guess it never came to fruition.
Currently, only four throttle axis are available - for engines one through four.
Please add additional individual throttle axis’ in the controls UI for those aircraft with more than four engines - e.g. the Latécoère 631 (six engines) and Spruce Goose (eight engines). I.e. we need
Throttle Axis 5
Throttle Axis 6
Throttle Axis 7
Throttle Axis 8
and their related controls, just like one finds with Throttle Axis 1-4.
For flying boats that do not have water rudders, the ability to control direction during taxiing by using differential thrust from the engines on the left & right side of the aircraft is not possible for aircraft with more than four engines, as developers usually just assign the general “Throttle Axis” to Engines 5,6,7,8…etc. Thus increasing the thrust on these engines also increases thrust on engines 1,2,3 & 4, making turning using differential thrust impossible.
Whilst 3rd-party addons such as axis-and-ohs may help, one should not have to rely on such products in order to control engines.
Good point.Voted
Voted. Still trying to figure how to individually control the B-52’s eight engines or at least assign throttle 1 to engines 1&2, etc. No mention of “engine” in 2024 control options.
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I discovered that I can’t use the 6-engine Bravo throttle quadrant because the MSFS interface only allows for 4-engine use. Is there any step by step instruction for using the bravo throttle quadrant in a 6 engine configuration for the AN 225 and some other multi engine aircraft?
Unfortunately you can’t. In the AN-225, throttle levers 1, 2 and 3 act as one lever, and same goes for throttle levers 4, 5, and 6. Microsoft and iniBuilds have most likely done it this way to accommodate the fact that the majority of simmers have a throttle setup with only two lever.
It’s really annoying tho cause I would have loved to that be able to use all 6 throttle levers in the AN-225 independently, and I am sure many others would as well.
How are you assigning all 6 to a throttle lever? In the Latecoere, throttle 5 and 6 don’t respond to input so I can bind to 1 lever. Do you know of a way?
I have a bravo.
Since ancient days, FS has been limited to catering to a maximum of 4 engines - and that’s still the same today. No matter what you’re flying, you can only set up a maximum of 4 throttles for your controllers/keyboard.
But there are now aircraft that surpass that… and we can’t properly map controls for them. I think the maximum currently is the Convair B-36 Peacemaker with a whopping 10 engines?
And then there’s the Boeing B-52 Superfortress with 8.
Even in the ‘official’ aircraft line-up with have the Antonov An-225 with 6. Surely it’s about time we had the number of engines supported properly increased?
I was mildly hopeful that the 09/29/2026 release of AAU_06 - that included updates to the 12-engine Dornier Do X - might have included more throttle controls. No such luck - MSFS 2024 still only has controls for throttles 1-4, and all 12 engines on the Do X can (as far as I can tell) only be controlled with a single Throttles axis, despite their being two throttle levers in the cockpit (for engines 1-6 & 7-12). 