Having trouble adjusting ATR airbus throttle between idle and notch.Its too sensitive. TCA calibrates OK at the detents.
Need to control power on descent - currently throttle will move too quickly between notch and idle.
Tried changing to a Bravo but no luck there.
Been through all of YT calibration videos.
I have a HOTAS warthog but not tried it yet.
Can anyone advise how they stop throttle moving too quickly between detentes? Or if they can recommend a better controller?
Have you tried creating a new separate profile for your use with ATR? Then map the sensitivity curve for the throttle to be linear?
Thanks for replying.
I have created separate profile.No not created a linear one.
Thats a good idea and ill try it.I thought it might have to be non linear if detentes in it - but thats nonesense. i didnt think it through.
Thankyou
I’m not at all familiar with ATR… but do they have detents? If they don’t then linear sensitivity curve would be the way to go.
But if they do have detents, maybe you need to have a different sensitivity curve to match the detents. But do they have custom throttle calibration in the ATR aircraft?
Like I said, I’m not familiar with the ATR itself and I don’t have the ATR aircraft in my hangar so I never use it and I don’t know if my suggestion works for your case.
Yes there is throttle calib. in the ATR EFB. This working ok.
I call them detentes but they are positions on the throttle to move the levers too.
Ill try it as nothing to lose.Sensitivity must be the way to go even if its not linear.
Ill post if it works or not so others can see if they also have same issue.
Have you tried, via the ATR’s throttle calibration, to reduce the size of the detentes?
I’m wondering, if you have them set to be very wide (which allows the throttles to very easily “snap” into the detente), if that is causing the throttle’s positions between them to be harder to modulate.
If you made the detentes harder to snap to, would that give you more granularity to the throttle’s movement between Idle and Notch?
Usually, when an aircraft have its own throttle calibration, that means your MSFS Control Sensitvity curve for your axis needs to be linear with everything at 0% except for response/reaction which needs to be at 100%.
Then as long as your throttle is linear, then the ATR EFB can finally calibrate it correctly by reading the correct values from your throttle. But that means you need to manually calibrate the throttle via the ATR EFB “After” you set your control sensitivity to linear. If you calibrate the ATR EFB using your old sensitivity curve and not recalibrate it again, then it’ll still gonna get messed up.
I can confirm a linear sensitivity setting on my TCA throttle worked OK with the ATR 72. Thankyou to you both for helping me.
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