Ok - I’ve seen a number of posts about throttle reversers not working and a number of other things - but most of those posts are pretty old. So I’m checking in about progress with several issues. I’m coming back to MSFS after abandoning it for a number of months (for the fourth time), hoping that there wouldn’t be as many issues. And installing the FBW320neo hoping that it had some decent cockpit textures. Oh well…back to X-Plane shortly, but before I go…
I have not tested this with other aircraft as I don’t want to waste any more time than I already have, but with the FBW320neo I have several issues.
- The throttle reversers are not working at all. I’ve configured the Bravo Airbus controllers as shown in several different videos and it doesn’t work. In fact pulling the throttle past the idle detent causes weird behaviors like increase in throttle?
- The Bravo trim wheel doesn’t seem to be configurable for…trim. Huh? I’ve configured a switch on the Alpha yoke for trim and it doesn’t work. Also the trim wheel seems to be continuously moving slightly forward no matter what’s happening.
Brian,
Could you please specify what exactly you are doing? „Several different videos“ doesn‘t help much to understand what you do. Explain it please.
The last thing I know is that the FBW airbus has a control configurator in its tablet and when I used it around Christmas it worked well. I‘m also not sure what you want ro do pulling the throttles past the idle detend? It‘s not a detend, it‘s the end of the axis. What comes below is a simple button.
Also nothing but a button (two in this case) is the trim wheel. If you attempted to bind them to any axes you will have problems of course. But there is absolutely no point to assign any trim to an airbus addon, you don‘t manually trim these aircraft ever. The only time you might use this control is to set the THS to its takeoff position. You can usw your mouse for that, binding buttons like the trim wheel will only cause trouble.
Did you configure the throttles in the FBW A320 flypad settings section.?
If not, that may be the cause of your i ssue.
Hey guys - thanks for your help. I’ve never had to use a configurator for controller mapping, and none of the 3-4 tutorial videos use that either. But I’ll explore that first.
I have the reversers mapped as switches as the throttle moves past the idle detent. Anyway I’ll check the configurator.
Thanks again for responding.
And yes - the FlyPad configuration solved my issues! I’m curious if something has changed in either the 320 or the sim since none of the videos I watched - all reliable sim folks - talked about this. Oh well - got it working and that’s the important thing! This aircraft is very cool - unlike all the default and initial 3rd party aircraft I’ve tried - the cockpit textures, shading etc are quite realistic, and no issues with the flight dynamics or inoperable important avionics. Not too surprising I guess - it takes years for really good X-Plane aircraft to be built.
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If they were older vids, that was probably why.
The configurator was added (I’m guessing) 6 months or more ago now.
Also not sure why assigning an axis or button to trim is going to cause a problem. I guess if you’re trying to use it inappropriately that’s one thing - but just mapping it to the Bravo trim wheel is going to be an issue?
So now I’m actually finished configuring and now I’m flying. My Bravo throttle is not behaving - in 1/2 inch of throttle movement it goes from idle to TO power. In the MSFS controller mapping section for this it shows full travel over the range of the throttles - so not sure what’s going on.
Hold off - I just discovered a Bravo configuration section in the FBW documentation - I’m hoping that will fix things. The problem is that there is a disconnect between the way the Bravo works, the way MSFS works, and the 320. So it’s complicated…
I have to check my Bravo configurations for trim keybindings. The Bravo trim wheel is used for most of the GA aircraft only. For airliners, jets, and some GA aircraft I map the rightmost lever for trim. This gives more trim “accuracy” for the electronic trim.
Did you calibrate the throttle in the fly pad (not just the reversers but the actual throttle settings)? It took me a while to figure out. I think you move the throttle to where you want it to be, like Idle, then tap the idle button. Move throttle to CL, then tap CL button and so on. Sorry if you already knew that, but it drove me nuts for a bit till I figured it out.
Yeah - I get that. I’m still working with this. I just realized that the FBW Bravo documentation does not cover the Airbus pack - just the original levers etc. So I will need to experiment to see if I can get anything that syncs the physical controller with the FBW sim with the MSFS2020 control mapping. Wish me luck! And yes - the FlyiPad is definitely part of the picture - but everything has to be in the correct order etc…X-Plane mapping took 2 minutes. I’ve spent 4 hours on this already. Aaarrrggghhh. I think part of the issue is that there are so many issues with MSFS2020 - fixes, bugs, enhancements, etc. that getting one important thing fixed can take forever. It gets lost in the chaos.
Ok - the information that FBW provides does not reference the Bravo Airbus throttle pack - which is different in several important ways - but is not covered. There are several different tutorials on this - but they give different, contradictory instructions - and none of them work. The FlyPad configuration does not play well with this hardware and software either, and none of the documentation or tutorials deal with this properly. In the midst of that - all of a sudden all exterior scenery has become white haze. Periodically the sim dies or freezes. So - bottom line - I’m done. I thank you for your assistance but I’m back to X-Plane and DCS - again. I hope they get things sorted out in a few years. The scenery is fabulous, but the rest of it sucks.
I don’t really like whiners, but I have to say that I am one with regards to this sim. Every time I try to use it I spend days trying to configure and fix things and then wind up extremely disappointed and frustrated.
The only thing different for the Airbus pack are two additional Buttons on the Thrust levers.
Which you can assain like you want or like in real world.
One should be Toga, i guess.
Also keep in mind that reverse on the Honeycomb is not an axis, it’s a Button
Yes - actually TOGA is a point on the throttle axis. The side buttons are assigned to the reverser function in one scenario. Anyway - bottom line - it’s not true that the only thing different is the buttons - the reversers work differently as does the TOGA etc. And as I mentioned there are three different pieces to this, actually 4, and they are not in sync with each other. Anyway after hours of experimenting, researching etc. I’m done. Other problems with the sim as well so it’s not worth it to keep banging my head against the wall. Thanks for your advice.