Helicopter Throttles Are Mapped to Collective Axis for All Helicopters

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: When mapping the throttle axis for the Helicopters category in control profiles, the throttle axis is mapped to the collective axis in the sim (when flying the helicopter) instead. Increasing/decreasing throttle after mapping results in movement of the collective instead of the throttle twist grip on the collective bar in-sim.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? Every time

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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  1. Open Helicopters control profile and select my collective control in the controls list.
  2. Map helicopter throttle axis to the twist grip axis on my control.
  3. Enter game, load helicopter (any), twist the throttle axis on my collective and the collective bar moves in the cockpit instead, resulting in inability to control the throttle on helicopters that support twist throttle grips on the collective.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub. Happens always as this is a bug in the controls mapping.

What peripherals are currently plugged in? Please name all of them as there could be a potential conflict. All Virpil controls. Mongoose TM3-50 Throttle, Control Panels 1 and 2, Rudder pedals, Sharka Panel, and CM50 joystick. This isn’t a conflict; it’s a bug in whoever at Asobo setup the controls binding in the sim.

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? Happens in both.

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX 4090

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? Ryzen 7950X CPU, 64GB RAM, 40TB of SSD storage.

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yes, the throttle is actually propeller and not throttle. At least in R66. if you map Throttle than the collective also moves. So there’s a programing bug defining what is throttle and what is propeller.

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This caught me out as well. But if you assign your hardware as…

Set Throttle Axis

…then it will work. :+1:

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I am having the same issue. I have tried binding it to everything in the power management and nothing works. I have no mod or add on. I just got the Virpil TCS plus for this reason and now I can not use it. There has to be a fix for this!

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I also have this issue.

This was an issue in MSFS2020 as well, but I assumed they just didn’t have everything fleshed out after adding helicopters. The fact that it migrated into MSFS2024 as well is pretty laughable. They have a specific helicopter throttle axis in the game and none of the helicopters use it.

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This is really ridiculous. I feel like it was a waste to go to 2024. Even the career mode for the helicopter are broken. Can not complete any of the training missions. I wish there was a better flight simulator out there. I guess i will just fly in DCS.

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• As noted above there are two different ways of mapping the throttle axis for helis, one works but the other controls both throttle and collective at the same time, which is a nonsensical behaviour.
This appears to be a core sim big because it affects multiple helicopters. I had the problem first in the Westland Scout.

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