NOTE: This guide is outdated! It was made before stable versions had the ability to calibrate the controls. Use EFB calibration utility instead of messing with curves.
TL;DR: Use sensitivity settings bellow to easily hit A320 thrust detents with Honeycomb Bravo with Airbus Throttle Pack.
So I finally received the Airbus levers for my Bravo and I played around with it a bit flying the FlyByWire A320. I tried to set it up in such a way that the “detent” markings on the physical thrust lever and throttle quadrant match up with thrust detents in-game.
By which I mean when you put the lever in this position:
it put’s the in-game thrust lever to the Climb detent:
With the next one going to FLX/MCT detent and the last one obviously to TO/GA.
It took quite a while to get just right. The issue is that markings on Bravo aren’t quite to scale, in fact the first “detent” is about half-way of the lever’s travel, while the real detent is more towards the end. It makes sense why they did it this way, because the unit has quite a bit less travel that the real thrust lever and so the lines would end up being really close to each other. Anyway with a bit of tweaking I came up with these settings:
Sensitivity (-): 0 %
Sensitivity (+): 62 %
Dead Zone: 0 %
Neutral: -70 %
Extremity Dead Zone: 0 %
Reactivity: 100 %
(note that your unit might differ slightly, but this should at least get you close enough)
The downside is that you lose a bit of resolution towards the bottom half of the thrust settings. However through the nature of A320 this only comes into play when you decide to disengage autothrottle and hand fly the landing. From what I’ve seen the general SOP for landings is to keep autothrottle on and the thrust lever in climb detent up until you’re ready to flare and chop the throttle altogether.
But that’s not to say you lose all precision, it just takes a bit of getting used to. The bottom half is completely linear so you have a pretty good control over the power settings during taxi and low power operation. And having the ability to quickly hit the FLEX power on takeoff and then reduce precisely to Climb power, without having to look at the in-game throttle quadrant is totally worth it in my opinion.
I hope somebody will find this useful and save some time fiddling around with settings.
