TCA Throttle Quadrant with FBW 320 Dev

[NeoKingRthur]

Yeah, then there’s something wrong with your calibration. If you calibrate it properly, the dot will travel from corner to corner when you move between full reverse and Toga. The CLB detent would the one where the dot is exactly in the middle.

You might be missing a step in your hardware calibration.

Note that the Thrustmaster Official Calibration guide is actually missing a step. You start by doing the same process as stated, but when you get to the step where you have to move the throttle and Press the two red buttons, you have to do it 5x instead of the 4x that the guide said (the brackets are the position for the spoilers and flaps addon):

1. Throttle TOGA (Spoilers Up, Flaps Up) → Press Red Buttons.
2. Throttle FLX/MCT (Spoilers 1, Flaps 1) → Press Red Buttons.
3. Throttle CLB (Spoilers 2, Flaps 2) → Press Red Buttons.
4. Throttle IDLE (Spoilers 3, Flaps 3) → Press Red Buttons.
5. Throttle FULL REVERSE (Spoilers Full, Flaps Full) → Press Red Buttons.

Once that’s done, continue with the rest of the steps to save your calibration settings.

When you open your Thrustmaster Control Panel. The throttle bar should be filled smoothly, starting from empty at the Full Reverse, and slowly and smoothly fill up as you move the throttle to the upper detents until on TOGA, it should be completely full. This is how you can tell the calibration is correct.

With a correct calibration, the MSFS Sensitivity curve will show correctly as I said above. And the EFB Throttle calibration should work.

[simonbb56]

Have done the Thrustmaster Official Calibration a dozen times (5x instead of 4). When open in the Game Controller Thrustmaster Flight Control Panel Properties the green gauges is in the middle(Throttle Quadrant is at Reverse Full) moving to TOGA is ok. At Reverse Full (X and Y Axis) it must be empty or green gauges move to bottom. At Control Sensitivity the dot is in the middle when throttle is move to Reverse Full. All this could be the reason why i could not calibrate in EFB. Almost give up now with Airbus TCA Quadrant.

[NeoKingRthur]

Usually the first time you open the control panel (or the sensitivity curve), it will always revert to the middle by default. You just need to slightly move the throttle around for the quadrant to feed into your PC which will instantly change the green bar.

Just move it slightly to get the input going, and place it on the CLB detent, which your green bar should be in the middle.

[simonbb56]

Very thankful for help and advise..When open control panel (Sensitivity) the dot is in the middle.
If physical throttle is move to CLM it will move down but when throttle is move to Reverse Full it stay in the middle. it should move up.
In Game Controller Thrustmaster Flight Control Panel Properties the green gauges is in the middle (physical throttle is in IDLE) but when throttle move to Reverse Full it stay middle, move to TOGA it ok(all green) I attached the print screen for yr info..

[NeoKingRthur]

Okay, so the problem here not from MSFS. MSFS is getting the same input from your thrustmaster.
If from the Thrustmaster control panel can’t get the green bar to empty when you pull the physical throttle to full reverse, then there’s only two possible cause. Either:

1. You have calibrated your throttle incorrectly, or
2. You have a faulty hardware itself.
3. All of the above

This is what your control panel should look like when you have a working hardware and calibrated properly:

Physical Throttle on FULL REVERSE position:

Physical Throttle on IDLE position:

Physical Throttle on CLB position:

Physical Throttle on FLX/MCT position:

Physical Throttle on TOGA position:

[simonbb56]

Yes, that what it should be..I guess i have a faulty hardware issue here. It not the TCA Quadrant cos when i used my Extreme 3D Pro joystick slider as a throttle it work fine from Reverse Full to TOGA.
I’m trying to delete everything connected with TCA Quadrant Airbus Edition and maybe reinstall at later date.

[NeoKingRthur]

I don’t think it would matter, because when you do factory calibration, the setting is stored within the throttle firmware inside the hardware itself. It’s not stored in some setting on your PC. So if you’re doing the wrong calibration, it’s stored in the hardware, if you have a faulty hardware, then it’s in the hardware as well.

In the end, you might need to reach out to thrustmaster support to get help, or perhaps the store you got it from for a return or a replacement.

[simonbb56]

I have done many time factory calibration, follow exact instructions/procedure (5x red buttons) so it can’t be wrong i guess. So now more or less confirm i’ve a faulty hardware.

[NeoKingRthur]

Maybe but we never know.. I’ve been in IT service industry for so long that I know when a customer thinks they’ve done it properly based on a manual guide, but when they show me what they’ve done, it’s still the wrong way to do it. But I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt and just say you have a faulty hardware.

[simonbb56]

Neo4316, finally i got the TCA Quadrant Airbus Edition working again after careful and slow calibrating the quadrant. Now the sensitivity curve can move down and up and the green bar if move to Reverse Full is empty.
Now the problem is calibrating the EFB in Development version. After Reset and throttle move to Reverse Full the blue bar stay as per picture attached. Could u help me with the correct way to calibrate.

Have follow the video on this but still can’t get it right.

[NeoKingRthur]

Okay, before enabling independent axis, just turn that off. If you calibrate them properly, you don’t need independent axis since both throttles will be at the same value.

From your screenshot, you’re actually halfway through doing it correctly.
What you need do to is keep an eye on that bar. In your screenshot it’s currently empty. I assume your TCA quadrant is currently positioned at Full Reverse. I know because I can see in that text under Axis 1 Current Value -1.00. This is the value that your Full Reverse throttle represent, and it’s reflected correctly in the bar that it’s empty.

All you need to do is click the button labeled “Set from Throttle”. This will bring the two white lines to drop down to -1.00 and -0.97.

Then you move your TCA throttle to somewhere just below the IDLE detent. Then on the EFB calibration page, click on the Reverse Idle on the center menu. Then press the Set from Throttle Button again.

Then you move your TCA throttle to the IDLE detent. Then on the EFB calibration page, click on the Idle on the center menu. Then press the Set from Throttle Button again.

Now as you move your TCA throttle, you will notice the blue bar will start to fill the same way as the green bar fills like in your Thrustmaster Control Panel. The current value being shown above it, also moves according to your TCA throttle position. And everytime you press the “Set from Throttle” button, the white bar will move into your current throttle position taking the value from the Current value and addin ± the range being shown.

Just keep on doing this for the rest of the detents, CLB, FLX, TOGA, and so on. Until everything is set. Then press Apply, then Save & Apply.

Eventually, if I predict this correctly, your values and the position of the white lines for each detent would be:

Reverse Full = -1.00 to -0.97
Reverse Idle = -0.73 to -0.67
Idle = -0.53 to -0.47
CLB = -0.03 to 0.03
FLX = 0.47 to 0.53
TOGA = 0.97 to 1.00

I personally set the range value from 0.03 to 0.05. So I can have more deadzone which allows me to avoid accidental movement from my throttle, and also to keep the calibration values with nice round numbers.

[simonbb56]

Still having problem with the TCA throttle somewhere below the IDLE detent. When Reverse Idle is clicked there is no blue bar. The current value also does not moves. After IDLE to TOGA the blue bar is moving ok.

[NeoKingRthur]

So the current value and blue bar does not move when you move your TCA throttle below IDLE? So when you move your throttle from IDLE to FULL REVERSE, there’s no movement at all with the blue bar or the current value from the EFB?

If you can, can you record some screenshots again on what the EFB calibration page looks like for every position in your TCA quadrant throttle?

Can you reset your TCA Quadrant into the Default Profile, and press the Reset in the sensitivity curve again? We need to make sure you’re bound to the correct Throttle Axis (the one with 0-100% on them) and that the sensitivity is fully linear as well.

[simonbb56]

1. Sensitivity curve after reset to Default setting
2. Throttle Axis (0 to 100%)
3. When open calibrating page in EFB (Reverser On Axis is ON and Independent Axis is OFF.)
4. Reverse Full
5. Reverse Idle- Throttle below the Idle detent. ( No blue bar) after Set From Throttle. Current value stay at -1.00.
6. When throttle move to Idle (Blue move up)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   print screen- 13,14,16,21,22,23.

[NeoKingRthur]

@simonbb56

1. Sensitivity curve after reset to Default setting
2. Throttle Axis (0 to 100%)
3. When open calibrating page in EFB (Reverser On Axis is ON and Independent Axis is OFF.)
4. Reverse Full
5. Reverse Idle- Throttle below the Idle detent. ( No blue bar) after Set From Throttle. Current value stay at -1.00.
6. When throttle move to Idle (Blue move up)

1. Sensitivity Curve looks correct.
2. Throttle Axis is correct.
3. This looks okay.
4. Your Reverse Full screenshot looks good. And that’s correct.
5. This one is weird.. It looks like your physical TCA throttle movement isn’t giving input in that zone.
6. The Idle point seems weird though. Like it’s too high on the value. But you forgot to press Set from throttle in there, because the white bars are still below the blue bar which is where your physical TCA quadrant is positioned at if it’s currently positioned at IDLE.

Any reason why you have Dev Mode active?

[simonbb56]

Giving up on the EFB calibrating for now.
Dev Mode is on cos it is ON in General Developers setting.
Will play using Independent Axis which is working (IDLE to TOGA only).
For Reverse Thrust will use button 5 & 6 on the TCA Quadrant.

[NeoKingRthur]

@simonbb56

Dev Mode is on cos it is ON in General Developers setting.

I mean if you’re not doing debugging, or creating addons and scenery fixes or testing things out. Turn off DevMode in the General Developer Setting, a lot of issues can come when you’re on devmode because they’re not used for general flying. Even flight logs are disabled when you have DevMode on. They’re used for testing and development purposes. Maybe the dev mode is preventing you from calibrating it properly.

I’ll share you my throttle configuration file, that way hopefully that can serve as a base for you to start on.

[simonbb56]

Thank you for the info. I’ve OFF the Developer Mode.

[NeoKingRthur]

See if you can copy and paste this whole thing into your ThrottleConfiguration.ini file inside your Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\flybywire-aircraft-a320-neo\work folder:

[throttle_common]
reverse_on_axis = true

[throttle_axis_1]
reverse_low = -1.000000
reverse_high = -0.950000
reverse_idle_low = -0.700000
reverse_idle_high = -0.600000
idle_low = -0.550000
idle_high = -0.450000
climb_low = -0.050000
climb_high = 0.050000
flex_mct_low = 0.450000
flex_mct_high = 0.550000
toga_low = 0.950000
toga_high = 1.000000

[throttle_axis_2]
reverse_low = -1.000000
reverse_high = -0.950000
reverse_idle_low = -0.700000
reverse_idle_high = -0.600000
idle_low = -0.550000
idle_high = -0.450000
climb_low = -0.050000
climb_high = 0.050000
flex_mct_low = 0.450000
flex_mct_high = 0.550000
toga_low = 0.950000
toga_high = 1.000000

[simonbb56]

Neo4316, it appear that my Throttle TCA Quadrant Airbus Edition is back working again.
Many thanks for your help and hope u can assist in future problems.