Hey Guys, maybe u can help me out… this is a thing that makes me not playing the game.
So i started with a Flight Hotas X had so much fun with it and yea… really… than i thought yea i wanna have an upgrade!
Now i sold my hotas and only have my TCA now… with my Hotas i could fly all planes … Cessna, A320… just all from small to large… it was very universal. But now i dont have fun… everything seems messed up with throttle and controls in general. (i have all drivers)
Maybe u can give me a good setup for the TCA that works with most of the planes “okay” or “well”… would be awesome…
sorry no native speaker here - so i hope u understand what my problem is.
thanks in advance
Hi!
I did this and solved all my problems:
MSFS 2020 & TCA THRUSTMASTER Calibration - YouTube
Hope this helps you.
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hey! thanks for the fast answer!
i will watch it! but is this a general setup for a320 too? i mean does it work for all planes well?
thxs
This is to calibrate the controls only and apply for all planes, but most of my problems were related to improper calibration. Generally, it will work with all planes without need to customize too much, the only thing I did was to rebind some keys on the joystick. I think MS/Asobo are still working on the feature, so you can assign for each plane a specific configuration for the controls.
oh okay thank u! yeah… my concern now is that i cant fly cessna nad fenix 
You can make copies of your set-up .You customize each copy for the plane of your choice and name them accordingly.save all before exit!! when you plan a new flight ,let’s say with the A320, you then go to controls,scroll till you find the copy you named A320, activate it with the mouse and save this choice.This will then become the active setting for that plane. If you want to fly with a Cessna 172 you have to repeat the process and select the related custom setting you previously saved.
You can make many copies.Difficult to have a standard setting that fit all the planes perfectly.
No, I don’t have the Fenix. I only use on the default A320 and other GA planes.
okay, but it works pretty well? a really small plane vs a320? sorry i am so interested
Yes, works fine. No issues, flying the Islander, Kodiak, Turbo Arrow, C310R and others.
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awesome, i come home from work in 2-3h… then i’ll try it
Thanks a lot, i will do it also here, i have the Officer one, withour the 2 adds-on on the side but i suppose it is working in the same way for this calibration ?
Yes, works in the same way.
so u have the same problems? nice to know that i am not alone
Ahh, no, not exactly… i think my calibration is ok, but anyway i will do it as described in the video, will be better
My problem is that i don’t get any way to move the view of instruments, normally i thought that the small joystick on top of the main one should move views, but no… For external view its moves it, for instruments it don’t
i guess its a matter of assignment of functions to buttons, and maybe i did some changes on the default conf… so i should first come back to the real default, but when i reinstall all the TCA driver i still have my previous settings i guess… i don’t knwo where to delete them to get back the real default ones…
edit : but after some search i see that i have this folder named Fenix in my download folder, and this one seems linked with the TCA settings ! i will delete it and reinstall TCA !
I think it’s difficult. Simply because different aircraft behaves differently and different aircraft handles differently as well.
I don’t recommend a good setup for “all” planes. On the contrary, I would recommend to create separate control profile for each type of aircraft. Then when you switch different aircraft, you just need to switch profile to the corresponding aircraft and all your bindings and sensitivity curve will all be good to go.
yeah i get that, sounds right… but do you have good profiles?
my biggest problem is the sensitivity or something i think…
when i fly the cessna 172. the throttle doesnt even applie till the middle of te tca thrust leveler… and the its just to sensitive… or other planes it just feels weird…
Yeah, I have a pretty spot-on profile depending on the aircraft. I have one setup for FBW A32NX, PMDG 737, A330-900neo, and F-35 Lightning II. All on the same Thrustmaster TCA set.
You also need to take into account the type of commands that you bind to. Throttle Axis, and Throttle Axis (0-100%) behaves completely different. So while one can work well with one aircraft, another aircraft will need to use a different binding.
I don’t fly Fenix or the Cessna 172, so I don’t have control profile for them set up.
Yes, sensitivity is important, and this is why having separate control profile is crucial. Because sensitivity curve will be saved on the profile level. So when you want to fly on the A32NX for example, you need a linear sensitivity curve with the throttle bound to Throttle Axis 1 or 2 (0-100%), then manage the detents using the EFB Flypad calibration.
But on another aircraft like PMDG, I need to use a different Throttle Axis command and a different sensitivity curve saved as a separate profile.
For Cessna 172, while I don’t fly it at all. I would expect you need to bind one lever to the normal Throttle Axis and the other lever to Mixture Axis. And have the corresponding sensitivity curve as well.
It took me hours of setting up, trial and error and testing to see how each aircraft behaves. Then try different commands, and test it again. Until eventually I have the right setup for a single profile for a single aircraft. When I want to fly another aircraft, I do the entire process all over again. But I only need to do this once at the very beginning.
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sounds like a lot of work, but it will be worth it i hope… would be cool if there are people out posting screenshots of there profiles
It’s a good idea, but the thing is. Everyone’s different. I can share you my screenshot, but when you follow the binding to the letter, you might end up not liking the way I set it up, and you end up changing things according to your own flying style anyway.
So while on one end, it might be beneficial to have some kind of an idea on how other people set up their profiles. The other side of the coin is that you might see different people setting different control profiles and their own bindings that’s completely different from another person for the same aircraft. And that makes the different variety of control profile a lot more confusing than being helpful.
Because it’s very subjective. The way I do it may not fit well with your flying style, and vice versa too.
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