FBW How do I set up just the Airbus controller throttle settings? I am not using the TCA throttle. I see the calibration page on the iPad, but it doesn’t acknowledge the throttle settings from the controller. Any help will be appreciated.
Is the throttle 1&2 axis bound to your TCA sidestick throttle slider?
I don’t have the TCA throttle connected at all, just the joystick controller.
That’s why I sidestick. It’s the slider in front of the sidestick. You have to bind both the Throttle 1&2 Axis in the sim control options into your sidestick throttle slider at the front.
Okay, I think I did that properly on the calibration page of the iPad. I’ll have to go try it out in flight.
No… 
not the calibration of the FlyPad.
I’m talking about the Sim’s Control Options. Where you bind functions like X Axis, Y axis of the primary flight controls. You have to make sure the Throttle 1&2 Axis is bound to your throttle slider in your sidestick.
Perhaps the problem isn t that clear described…
In the new dev Version from today you have to calibrate the throttle via the flypad in the cockpit. Where is a description how to do that ? My calibartaion of the TCA ends with red messages about overlapping FLY und TO/GA, so I can t use the save button…
It’s like a deadzone for the different detents. You set the lower end and the upper end of the deadszone on each detend with the EFB.
After a lot of fiddling on the calibration page, as there are no instructions, I finally got the throttle on the Airbus sidestick working. I’ll try it out today in flight. Eventually, I will try the TCA throttle. I disconnected it awhile back as there were too many problems with it. and it would not calibrate properly.
Try to reset de curve response for TCA throtle control in Msfs2020 controler page.
I’ve made a few posts in this forum on how to do factory calibration of the TCA throttle quadrant properly along with the spoilers and flaps addon. When you got it working, you can reassign the throttle binding in your sidestick slider into the brake axis instead.
Trust me, I’ve watched every video, read every post here and tried it all. It doesn’t work. The Flypad only reads Flex and Toga detents as the same, as full power, and then it reads CLB as Flex…very frustrating. I’ll keep trying as the new updated Flypad seems to offer more variance.
Right now my sidestick throttle slider is read perfectly by the Flypad.
You just need to understand how throttle quadrant is set up.
- You need to Bind the throttle quadrant thrust lever into the Throttle Engine 1 Axis (0-100%) and Throttle Engine 2 Axis (0-100%) for each left and right levers. Notice the (0-100%) this is important, because there is two distinct throttle axis settings in the control options. The Throttle Engine 1/2 without the 0-100% is a completely different bindings, so avoid this one. Make sure you bind the one with the 0-100%.
- Make sure you open the Sensitivity Curve option in your Control settings. And set them to completely linear. This means you just need to press the Reset button at each of your throttle axis in the sensitivity curve, and it will set itself into 0,0,0 point and the line will be a straight linear line.
- When you bind to this control, now you need to understand how the EFB interprets the values. Basically, your entire throttle range is set into a range of -1.00 from very bottom to +1.00 at the very top. This means the point 0.00 is the absolute middle point of your entire throttle range.
- Now let’s translate this into the detent points in the throttle quadrant. Basically we have a total of 5 detents inclusive with each ends: FULL REVERSE, IDLE, CLB, FLX/MCT, TOGA. Each of these detents ranges are equally distributed with one another. That means, the values between these detents are equal.
- We have a range of -1.00 to +1.00 that means we have a total of 2.00 values that must be equally divided into 5 detents inclusive of 0. So we can interpret this as FULL REVERSE at -1.00, IDLE at -0.50, CLB at 0.00, FLX/MCT at 0.50, and TOGA at 1.00. Each of these detents travel at 0.50 range from one detent to another.
- Now add deadzone to each of these detents. Deadzone is important because it tells the EFB at which range do the inputs coming from your hardware to be interpreted to the within that detent in the sim. What I usually do is to use the base values from Step 5, and reduce it by -0.05 on one end, and increase it by +0.05 at the other end. This gives us 0.10 of deadzone within it. That means that any movement from your throttle quadrant that falls between -0.05 and +0.05 will be interpreted to be staying at that detent.
- Add those values into the base values in Step 5, and you’ll get the Start and End point:
FULL REVERSE = Start -1.00 to End -0.95 (adding 0.05 into -1.00 because it doesn’t have a lower point).
IDLE = Start -0.55 to End -0.45 (again -0.05 from -0.50 and add +0.05 into -0.50)
CLB = Start -0.05 to End +0.05
FLX MCT = Start +0.45 to End +0.55
TOGA = Start +0.95 to End +1.00 - IDLE REVERSE is a bit special as it places itself between the FULL REVERSE and IDLE. So pick a number in between them. I personally use -0.70. And applying the same deadzone amount, that means the Start is -0.75 and End at -0.65.
- Activate Reverse on Axis. And you should be good.
This is however, the old EFB calibration method. I haven’t updated into the new Developer mode with the new calibration method, so this might become obsolete fairly quickly. But I do hope the concept is the same.
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I have done all this before, but I will try it again. I really appreciate your taking the time to explain it so thoroughly. Posts like yours are very valuable to the community. I will give it another go.
I get some alert tekst and my throtle work fine, how i get it off?