My TCA quadrant isnt in the right position after recallibrating

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I needed to recallibrate so my TCA addons would work, they are working fine now but it broke my quadrant in the process. here are my detents starting with TOGA all the way to Full Reverse

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Okay, here’s a few thing to check.

  1. Make sure you have installed the latest driver and firmware from the Thrustmaster support.
  2. Update your throttle quadrant firmware to the latest version that you have downloaded.
  3. When you follow the steps of the calibration process, there’s actually a missing step.
    Instead, you calibrate each detent the following way. (The one in brackets are for the Spoilers and Flaps addon if you have them attached).
  • Both throttles to TOGA (Spoilers Up, Flaps Up) Press the two red buttons.
  • Both throttles to FLX/MCT (Spoilers 1, Flaps 1) Press the two red buttons.
  • Both throttles to CLB (Spoilers 2, Flaps 2) Press the two red buttons.
  • Both throttles to IDLE (Spoilers 3, Flaps 3) Press the two red buttons.
  • Both throttles to FULL REVERSE (Spoilers Full, Flaps Full) Press the two red buttons.

You have to press the two red buttons 5x. Once for each detents, including the IDLE and Full Reverse. And if you have the spoilers and flaps addons attached, make sure they’re following the throttle position before you press the two red buttons. This will help the spoilers and flaps axis positions to the calibrated as well.

Once that’s done, check the green bar in the Thrustmaster Quadrant Control Panel. You should see the green bar to move correctly from TOGA to FULL REVERSE through each detent starting from FULL to EMPTY.

As long as this is done, your Quadrant is calibrated properly.

Then in your MSFS control panel, the white bar will behave according to your sensitivity curve. If your sensitivity curve is set to be fully linear (Reactivity at 100% but everything else at 0%) you should see the white bar to move linearly as well. If you use the Default sensitivity curve from the default profile, you should see the white bar moves at different rates depending on the detent.

Note that if you are flying on the FlyByWire A32NX, your sensitivity curve must be fully linear, this is because the EFB FlyPad will be handling the throttle positions and calibrations. But if you are flying the default A320neo or the Headwind A330-900neo, you need to use the sensitivity curve from the Default Profile, so that the detents can be matched.