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It’s been around too long to remember.
I wasn’t sure whether to classify this as a bug or a wishlist item, as I’m unsure if this was an intentional change or something that has just largely gone unnoticed. For now, I’m classifying it as a bug, but any admins can feel free to move it if they feel it is better suited elsewhere.
For some time, it has been impossible to toggle reverse thrust unless the aircraft is on the ground. This works fine for airliners, or any other flight where there is plenty of runway. However, this makes it nearly impossible to fly any turboprop into extremely short runways. In these situations, reverse thrust must be activated immediately upon or just prior to touchdown, else landing would be impossible.
There are also instances where a “Beta Decent” may be performed to rapidly loose altitude at a slow rate. This is common in the PC-6 Porter.
These, what I assume are safeguards, need to be removed to allow use of reverse thrust at any point in flight. It may be helpful for some, but the flip-side is that it also hinders some scenarios where it needs to be activated at a moment’s notice.
I am really surprised that this has not yet (at least to my knowledge) been acknowledged by anyone. There must not be as many doing STOL ops in turboprop aircraft. Even though we have a default Porter now. 
Report sent to Zendesk. Posting here for redundancy.
I believe I am able to toggle reverse thrust in the Cessna Caravan for example, but I think it only works by accident due to the way my binds are set up.
Reverse thrust, in general can be toggled. But only when you are firmly planted on the ground. If you need to activate reverse thrust the second you touch down, and the wheels are not fully on the ground, it will not engage. Thus resulting in a go-around.
It will usually work if you make a good landing on pavement, but off airport, forget about it. You’re lucky if you get it on the first attempt. Pretty much kills the off-airport experience.
I’m talking about engaging reverse thrust in the air. I’m 99% sure I can already do it on my setup. I will have to test more later and get back to you.
Ah, gotcha. Yeah, definitely let me know if you can and what your setup is. I tried both the prop and throttle reverse thrust toggles and axis with no luck. Also deactivated the spoiler hotkey, as this was something mentioned on the Milviz Porter, but it seems to be unaffected or unrelated to this.
Very few aircraft allow reverse thrust in the air (it tends to overspeed the prop and wreck the gearbox on the turbine) but in real life you can still do it, just with a $100,000 repair bill and a forced landing.
Some more sophisticated aircraft may have a lock out but things like the Kodiak rely on the pilot not being stupid enough to do it in the first place.
Hence, even though it is a very bad thing to do in most aircraft, it SHOULD still be possible to do it in the game, ideally with engine damage modelled as well
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It’s certainly wonky, and that is why I said I think it only worked for me by accident. For example, toggle reverse thrust does not even toggle reverse thrust in the Caravan, it toggles the prop feathering lever instead… I have binds set for throttle to zero % and then reverse it from there, but some more about it is probably still wrong.
I am upvoting this because I think something definitely needs to be fixed. There are also other topics related to this that I’ve commented on before.
Even Porter is not actually permitted to go below the detent in flight. With it the beta descent, as accurately depicted on the Milviz Porter, happens with the throttle at the detent or very slightly forward from there.
Right. Maybe I wasn’t clear enough in that statement, but adding reverse thrust would normally blank out the tail on most all aircraft, as far as I’m aware. In 99% of cases, reverse thrust would never be used in flight, only on landing.
NEED HELP!! I am having an issue in the A320 Neo where my thrust reversers are randomly deployed. Also, whenever I move my throttle up to taxi and go back to idle the thrust reversers deploy. Anyone know why this is? Please help!!
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im thinking this might be a bug or something i have this issue too, never had it before. very annoying im using the logitech quadrants
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