Any tips or tricks for getting reverse thrust to function? Everything else works great for me…well as great as one can get with limited options and sliders, but for the life of me I cannot get any reverse thrust. Riding out this antiquated tech until I can get my hands on a honeycomb throttle
Oh and if it makes any difference this is not the standalone throttle, its the one that has to be plugged into the Saitek yoke…been running my Honeycomb as a main yoke and the Saitek on the floor next to the desktop…a clunky system but it works for now
I don’t have a Saitek Hotas but TM instead. You have to assign a button to “toggle reverse”.
You would go to “idle”, push the button and then push back the lever. I believe that with external software like FSUIPC you could achieve a more realistic behavior.
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That makes sense…
I am used to XPlane picking up on the bottom part of the throttle so if I got to idle and pushed down a bit it would automatically trigger reverse thrust and was banking on MSFS being able to do the same
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I have set button D to toggle reverse but it only works when the throttles are back at idle… pull back to idle, press D, open throttles in reverse… when ready to stop reverse, throttle to idle, press D, now in normal again.
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I have the buttons under the axis set up as throttle decrease, that way when you activate it it will go into reverse. The ‘toggle reverse’ function is a bit hard to activate sometimes
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I too would like to live in a world where the middle notch of my thrust lever would mean “idle”.
I use the TM Hotas and set thrust reverse to one of the buttons on the throttle. So after touchdown while at idle just hit the assigned button and advance the throttle to the level of reverse thrust I want, when I have slowed enough throttle back to idle hit the button again and have forward thrust.
If you have the X-56 like I do. I use the slider lock thingy on the throttle and bind it to the Reverse Thrust (Hold) key.
That way, I can just pull my throttle back to idle. Slide in the switch and push my throttle forward to engage reverse thrust. Then I just pull it back to idle again, slide the switch to off, then push forward on my throttle to use the forward thrust again.
It’s the one labeled SLO in this pic.
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I set mine with a button (Buying Honeycomb gear now)
If only we have a negative zone in the throttle that has a spring mechanism. So pulling it back will engage the reverse thrust but with a heavier resistance from the spring. When you take your hands away from the throttle it’ll snap back to the idle position due to the spring.
If you’re talking about a single Saitek throttle quadrant then I use the bottom indent on the prop axis, set in the controls so that it acts like a shift key for reverse (can’t remember which option this is but I’m pretty sure it’s not the ‘toggle’ one). This feels a lot more procedural and easy to manage to me as you have to bring the prop lever right down after retarding the throttle and then add throttle again to achieve reverse thrust. Once you flip back up out of the indent, you are back to forward throttle.
im using the X52 Pro. And i have a Button on the Throttle to switch to Reversethrust
Yeah thats how I have it set in Xplane but MSFS is fighting me in getting the same settings
