Thanks for posting. Here’s my Bravo experience:
Speedbrake (mapped to spoilers) works fine
Throttles - I can’t get these to work with FSUIPC - maybe someone more familiar with FSUIPC can help out with this. All of the throttle axes I tried either:
- didn’t move the throttle control in the sim and didn’t change the throttle setting
- didn’t move the throttle control in the sim but did change the throttle setting
- moved the throttle control in the sim, but i couln’t calibrate it with FSUPIC to be reversed (so the axis worked the wrong way around
To get around this, I bound them through the sim mappings - which is OK, but I lose the ability to just jump in the plane and let FSUIPC work out the correct controls - annoying but not a deal breaker
Reverse thrust - set up in FSUIPC to toggle on with the reverser toggle and toggle throttle cut (so it goes to zero rather than needing to move the throttle levers slightly forward when released
Set up the throttle detents using the EFB and the approach set out in the link above from @JuiceBox7535 - that was straightforward
Flaps - I wanted to use the right hand axis on the Bravo, but found that setting this to a normal axis acted simply as an on/off switch for the flaps - couldn’t find a way to calibrate that properly. So I ended up using FSUIPC to map ranges for the output from the axis to correspond to pressing buttons Flaps Set 0-5 - this works quite well actually (the flap level makes a nice chunky sound when you move it)
7 on/off switches - I’ve so far only programmed in the parking brake on these so far - will add more as I learn the plane more
Autopilot:
- AP on works fine
- HDG works fine
- NAV - works fine, but the LED on the Bravo doesn’t light up for some reason
- APR - doesn’t seem to work (although trying this on the ground
could be an issue - could be because I have no flight plan loaded - REV - similarly doesn’t seem to work, but could be flight plan related
- ALT works fine
- VS works fine
- IAS needs to be set to AP Airspeed Hold
Control knob:
ALT - doesn’t seem to change the desired altitude - definitely annoying, but not anything I can see how to fix - maybe someone else more skilled at programminh FSUIPC can help?
VS - works, changes the desired vertical speed indicator
HDG - this moves the heading bug, but for some reason doesn’t show the heading indicator text on the PFD that appears when you use the heading knob in the cockpit
OBS - doesn’t appear to do anything
IAS - changes the speed bug shown in the speed tape