Logitech/ Saitek Throttle Quadrant Jitter / Twitching

I only fly the XCub with the performance mod, and occasionally one of it’s several variants.

I’m on a RTW, trying to touch wheels to every country it’s possible to reach by the real aircraft. So far I’ve landed in 98 countries and flew over 1 (no airport), flown 119 legs, logged more than 25,000 miles, stopped or turned at more than 375 waypoints/airports, and been in the air for more than 230 hours.

When I finally get back to my home airport, I’ll worry about learning another aircraft.

Not dependent on the aircraft since he tried in the options settings.
Yeah my vid shows the saitek yoke, coz the saitek controller is connected to it, in fact as it should be.
Are you using your throttles with a different yoke ? I don’t think so since they need to be connected as it is a special cable. If you don’t it seems like a hardware issue, nevertheless a very good setup once working :wink:

Hi.

Yeah, I’m using the Saitek/Logitech throttle with the Honeycomb Alpha Yoke. It’s a nice (and relatively sensibly priced) setup, jittering aside.

Hi, I don’t think that is quite right. I have both X Plane 11 and MSFS 2020, and since last MSFS update I cannot calibrate and program my Saitek Throttle Quadrant both on Throttle and Mixture. When I fly X Plane 11 my quadrant reacts perfectly as it should. And my Saitek Flight yoke system is about 6 years old. Any thoughts and ideas appreciated. But no way can I use my quadrant in MSFS at the moment???

Microsoft Flight Simulator has huge issues with controllers.

The same controllers that work fine in Digital Combat Simulator (DCS), and X-Plane 11, and half a dozen other flight simulator and flight combat games, have jitter only in MSFS.

And while MSFS has a variety of configuration and calibration options, none of them do anything, least of all so called “reactivity”.

For an axis that is mostly left at a ceneter or extreme point, you can set a deadzone at max, min, and center, but for an axis which should not be twisting around and jerking all the time, there is no “average of four readings” or “minimum change 1%” that could be tweaked. While some axis really need super fine control, others really need to not twist around all over the place.

And while none of my throttle axis are jerking in X-Plane, all of them jerk around a lot in MSFS.

If MSFS let me write my own plugin to manage inputs I’m sure I could add a bit of averaging and best-effort sampling that would cure all this jitter.

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You could try this with joystick gremlin or similar software.

I fixed most of my issues with a jitter plugin and some of these recomendations:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hotas/comments/hqyx3b/getting_the_most_out_of_your_noisy_sliders_and/

Just bought this from Amazon brand new and same issue, all throttles are unstable and jitter.