VelocityOne and Kodiak - program reverse thrust/prop feather and condition lever correctly?

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I’m running on Xbox, but this question applies to folks using the Turtle Beach VelocityOne system on PC as well. I’ve seen YouTube videos that explain how to achieve reverse thrust with the throttle lever detents on jet engine aircraft; these started popping up shortly after the yoke updated a few months back. I can’t make heads or tails of how to carry this knowledge over into the prop and condition lever detents though, especially since some of the bindings are named cryptically.

I can remember, I believe, a Huddison video on the A320 which explains that one action needs to be mapped on press and another on release. Can anyone help me figure out these mappings so as to unlock the full functionality of this plane and this yoke? Thank you!

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This video shows you in nice easy stages how to setup the detents on the yoke:

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Didn’t see this video somehow and now I feel dumb. Thank you! Pretty much exactly what I was looking for.

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Kodiak condition lever:

Using the Turtle Beach VelocityOne controller, here is my sensitivity graph for the condition lever for the Kodiak. With this extreme profile, the high idle, low idle, and cut off, will be set near the 100%, 50%, and 0% settings.

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I actually have the condition lever adjusted so that sticking my ring finger in the ‘gap’ is the exact position for idle, with a few points of dead zone to make it stone stupid simple to hit it, being you can’t map it to a detent.

Another cheat with the Kodiak is if you have reverse setup in the detent(per SimHangar setups-which is the base of most of mine), the aircraft has no true ‘beta’ range for decent, being an MSFS thing. Bring the prop lever back to 1/3-1/2 rpm to slow you down on approach. You’ll have the right amount of drag and still enough response to decend in the 70-90kt zone without being so twitchy. Emulates the top of beta range pretty well.

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For what it’s worth this is what I use for the turboprop condition lever. High idle is in the top half of axis travel (50-100 range). Low idle is in the bottom half (0-50 range). Cutoff is only with the detent button.

So in practice, I have “three spots”: top (high), bottom (low), detent (cutoff).

Here’s the axis sensitivity. “Decrease mixture” is mapped to detent button press; “Increase mixture” to detent button release.
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