For those who are eagerly anticipating the arrival of their Bravo quadrant, I wanted to share some good news that my order direct from Honeycomb arrived today! I was in the very first wave of orders, got super lucky getting my order in before they sold out.
My first impression is the build quality appears to be fantastic. Very nice resistance on the throttle and nice detents for things like the speedbrake and GA reverse thrust. It is much lighter than the Alpha yoke.
Unfortunately, my first testing of the quadrant didnāt go exactly as anticipated. While FS2020 easily detects the quadrant, Iām not sure if it recognizes how youāve configured its setup. I tried a 2 engine commercial setup and FS2020 did not recognize my flap, speedbrake, or throttle inputs. I was hoping that FS2020 would autodetect my setup since each accessory seems to have a USB-like connection, but I am now wondering if we need to manually configure the quadrant depending on its setup? Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah, the default setup is completely useless. It defaults to a prop twin, so throttle x2, prop x2 & mixture x2. But they have left and right backwards! Right engine controls left engine, and left controls right!
Thereās no automatic detection of the control configuration, so youāll have to make different profiles for single/twin/quad, prop/jet etc. Then remember to select the appropriate profile for the aircraft in use.
Despite all of that, itās still an amazing unit.
Awesome, thanks for the reply. I just tested it again in a single prop config and was still having issues, so this clears things up. Iām going to have to do a deep dive to setup the profiles now, looking forward to testing this baby out once it actually works properly!
Same exact issue. Except I set mine up for a single prop and started on the runway with my mixture in, but the game slowly pulled the mixture out until the engine died and I couldnāt do anything to prevent it. To fix it you have to push up the second āthrottleā and the second āmixtureā up for the game to let your plane operate correctly. Doesnāt matter if you have the second throttle and second mixture handles installed or not. I just put the plugs up and recovered them with the rubber. Seemed to work fine without messing with the controller settings. I hope an update helps make these handle configurations work better.
Iāve been working on this myself and have pretty much got it figured out. I had the same initial problem as you, UnquietOrb62, and fixed it by doing the following:
-Go to power mgmt to change mixture, propeller, throttle
-Select mixture/propeller/throttle 1,2,3,4 axis
-Click on the joystick axis thatās pre-set
-When a pop-up appears click on the joystick axis and then move the respective lever you want to set as default, this will then appear in place the box
-Click Validate
-If there any buttons selected for throttle/mixture/propeller increase or decrease, select the preset button and then hit clear current input and then validate. I think this is whatās causing the levers to move without your input.
On another note, has anyone figured out how to setup the commercial flap lever and speedbrake?
Iām having trouble finding the speed brakes listed in settings. How did you find them? Also, do you mind explaining how to set up an axis for control as opposed to a button? Thanks
Think I read, you must download the driver package from Honeycomb. New software update in game will fix some of these issues on the 23/24th of December when itās released.
There are several good videos on how to configure the TQ on YouTube, so I would suggest watching some of those as well.
I have not received mine, (9/2/2020) so not sure when itās getting here. According to e-mail, 3rd week in December or so. Regardless, as buggy as the game is now might leave in box for it to catch up with the hardware. Also purchased new JS from Virpil, and it also may stay in box (well not really), for same reasons above. I am going to configure them both for FSX since it works quite well, in fact, much better than this SIM.
They were hidden for me. Go to filter, select āallā, then go to secondary control surfaces. You want to assign the speedbrake to āspoilers axisā, donāt select reverse axis. For flaps, same thing, but assign the flaps lever to "flaps axis (-100 to 100%), again donāt select reverse axis.
Man, youāre not kidding.
This thing was supposed to be setup for GA by default.
Throttles were mapped to wrong engines (2-1 instead of 1-2).
Prop Pitch and Mixture were mapped backwards (blue to red, and red to blue).
They were also mapped 2-1 instead of 1-2.
The Vertical Speed button on the AP was mapped to something else entirely.
Look, am I missing something here?
I mean, I know that Asobo has never done a flight simulator before, but reallyā¦ did they map these defaults? I canāt wait to see what the LEDās on the annunciator panel actually do.
They are in thereā¦ right?
