Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - CH throttle quadrant problem

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Posted onPost created on January 10 2017 18:44 ET by Peter Keenan

Dear All,

Up to Christmas, my flight sim set up included a CH Yoke and Rudder Pedals and the system works well (I use FS9). With the Yoke, I use the levers to control the engine speed, spoilers, engine mixture, etc. with no problems. For Christmas, I had a CH Flightstick Pro stick and the CH throttle quadrant as I find it difficult to fly aircraft smoothly with the yoke particularly in pitch.

The Flightstick Pro stick is great, but I have a major problem with the throttle quadrant.

The throttle quadrant is recognised by Windows 7 (it appears in the devices and printers as a 'HID-compliant game controller' - when I go to properties , it's listed correctly) and I can calibrate it with the CH Control Manager v4.55. In FS9, I use the FSUIPC to set the controls for all the CH devices including the throttle quadrant, and the quadrant is recognised and I can set the controls to axis throttle set and axis spoiler set.

However, when I then use the throttle quadrant in any aircraft in FS9, the throttle quadrant levers are not not functioning properly as I can't use them to control the engine speed, etc. There just seems to be two positions for the lever set to control the engine speed - idle and maximum power over the speed range. The same applies with the engine mixture lever. The only thing that does work are the switches which I use to control the flaps/the landing gear, etc.

When I go back to the CH yoke, its levers work fine and I can smoothly control the the engine speed, spoilers, engine mixture, etc. without any issues at all.

I've tried many different things including calibrating the throttles in FS9 by enabling the joysticks function, thereby bypassing FSUIPC, but I always get the same result - i.e. the levers are not functioning correctly.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions as I'm stumped as to what to try next.

Best regards,

Peter Keenan

Peter Keenan

Captain, B737-800

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