Throttle axis calibration and use
Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 10:41 pm
It is me again, still having an odd issue with completely uneven travel of my two throttle levers. I set the values manually in the axis.cfg file, as I followed Chris' advice with the TQ6+.
What I noticed is that the left throttle lever in cockpit moves differently. The two axes are at the same point in cockpit and in real hardware at idle, which has the tooltip value 64 or around there in my setup. However, when I move the hardware levers together, the two sim levers move at different rates. below idle, the right lever in sim moves faster down, so I enter reverse earlier on the right engine. It is as if there are different curves and that the right axis is not linear, as it also advances to full throttle faster. The two levers stop at the same point at both ends of travel, so the upper and lower limits are fine, there just seem to be uneven rates of lever movement.
Now the oddest thing I noticed: You can delete all the values for the various detent stops completely for Throttle2, but it STILL WORKS... as if the sim is not reading those values at all and just using the Throttle1 values. This means I cannot effect any change as to where Throttle2 should be stopping on the detents...
Try it out, delete the Throttle2 settings if you have a twin-lever setup like a TQ6 or something. I would be interested to hear what you find.
Andrew
What I noticed is that the left throttle lever in cockpit moves differently. The two axes are at the same point in cockpit and in real hardware at idle, which has the tooltip value 64 or around there in my setup. However, when I move the hardware levers together, the two sim levers move at different rates. below idle, the right lever in sim moves faster down, so I enter reverse earlier on the right engine. It is as if there are different curves and that the right axis is not linear, as it also advances to full throttle faster. The two levers stop at the same point at both ends of travel, so the upper and lower limits are fine, there just seem to be uneven rates of lever movement.
Now the oddest thing I noticed: You can delete all the values for the various detent stops completely for Throttle2, but it STILL WORKS... as if the sim is not reading those values at all and just using the Throttle1 values. This means I cannot effect any change as to where Throttle2 should be stopping on the detents...
Try it out, delete the Throttle2 settings if you have a twin-lever setup like a TQ6 or something. I would be interested to hear what you find.
Andrew