Classic British Flight Sim

Hi chaps,

I dug out my old Saitek throttle quadrant last night to try it in MSFS. When I Calibrate it in the “joystick control panel” in Windows, it’s fine, but in MSFS, the X and Y axis behave like a switch. Z is detected correctly. When I move X or Y forward it’s “on”, backwards it’s “off”.

Are any of you using one of these in MSFS? Is there a trick to setting it up?

Thanks

Hi Ben I still use the Saitek quadrant, but only the 2 outer levers, for flaps and speed brakes. Throttle is taken care of with the Thrustmaster Airbus quadrant. It works fine for me in Msfs. I can check the bindings I use and get back. I think it's the 0 - 100% one, but not sure
Dale

Cheers Dale. I use the HOTAS throttle, but thought I’d try the quadrant and assign 1+2 to X and 3+4 to Y, then use Z for the speed-brake. This used to work in FSX and P3D, but for whatever reason MSFS, while allowing me to assign X & Y as axis, treats them like a switch. Really odd.

No its not the 0-100 % axis. I use that one on the thrustmaster.
Dont see why the same axis cant work with the throttles

You don't have any other throttle bindings do you
While preparing the control menu to take the screenshot, I found several more bindings for flaps and speed brakes for the non existent Tca quadrant add on. The Tca must populate the control menu itself on initial plug in. I wonder why the flaps and speed brakes are sometimes weird
Dale

Found this thread… The guy used DIViewer to change the range and it works a treat. Looks like a great utility actually.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/lo ... m/534045/9

Sorry to bring up such an old thread.

One of the levers on my Saitek is properly dead now and the middle one is a bit jumpy. At £65 for a new one, its a budget controller, but I don't know if the latest itteration is any good. I like that its quite compact and inexpensive
The Honeycomb Bravo looks really good, but a lot more expensive and a lot more desk space. I've been reading all sorts about whether or not they will actually produce them again and I'm a but nervous about support. The CH one looks very dated these days, but I know some of you have said that they are pretty bullet proof. Anyone got current thoughts, particularly if you've bought the SAITEK PZ45 Pro Flight Throttle Quadrant Flight Controller in the last couple of years?

Hi would be cautious about getting the Honeycomb right now, seams they are having some corporate chaos, read more here.

https://www.sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/ ... ve.163254/

I also have a Saitek throttle quadrant and often pull it out when I need all three leavers for a prop aircraft. I finally put my trusty Logitech extreme 3D out to pasture as the USB cable was getting very flaky as I think there is a short in it. I replaced it with the Thrustmaster T16000M FCS HOTAS Lots more buttons but not quite as very complex as the Saitek X65 (Which I just tossed as it inexplicably stopped working). So far I really like the Thrustmaster T16000M, I am still trying to figure out the best way to program all the buttons.

I seriously considered the Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Edition, and probably would have gotten it if I flew modern airliners more often. Not as cheap as the Saitek throttle quadrant, and if the saitek matches the way you like to fly I would get it again.

I bought a Honeycomb through Amazon and glad I did, for I found it of disappointing quality wise and the thing refused to calibrate properly so it was sent back the following day with a full refund.
So I ended up getting a Saitek X56. It's OK but I do mourn the demise of my faithful X52 which I had since 2005. I do have the three lever quadrant and another one which came with the Cessna Yoke. They are cheap and neither calibrate correctly. I would avoid them.

Thanks guys. I've taken the plunge and ordered the Saitek quadrant, if its no good it can go back, but I'm hopeful. It should be here on Monday. I'll let you know how it works out. It should be fine for prop flying and if they ever release a Trident or Tristar it will be perfect... I live in hope