Has anyone else had problems setting up their Thrustmaster throttle quadrant?

I setup a new config in MSFS2024 similar to what I have for the Fenix products, mapped throttles 1 and 2 to throttle 1 (physical) axis and 3 and 4 to throttle 2 axis.

In the aircraft the throttles would only go idle or toga, wouldn't stop anywhere in between. Set the physical detents and clicked ln the relevant detent button in the EFB, saved, but still no change. Set the configuration to manual, adjust the throttle curve to around 0.85 and redid the detent setting - seems to have worked, but would be interested in others experiences.

I had this issue with a Virpil VMAX throttle which I have a 3d printed Airbus style detent/gate function fitted. I spent 90 minutes yesterday trying to make it work. Turns out that they dont like you using the INVERT AXIS function. Toggling it on and off and recalibrating in the EFB finally got it sorted.

I am unable to activate thrust reverser lever with my Honeycomb Bravo. How do you do to make it working?

Pretty sure its covered in the manual, you can find it in the root folder for the aircraft

11 minutes ago, Andy B. said:

Pretty sure its covered in the manual, you can find it in the root folder for the aircraft

thanks, I have read the manual, it makes no reference to the Thrustmaster quadrant, and covers calibration in about 1 paragraph, hence why I am looking for people's experiences. - do you have any to share?

I have detents on my levers so it just works once calibrated, so there is proportional reverse area on the same axis. With the bravo you will need to assign them the same as all aircraft with reversers do with that hardware i.e. As the button is pressed when the throttle lever is pressed all the way down you Hold/Repeat the decrease thrust assignment to turn on the reversers, then when you move the bravo lever up a little out of the bottom detent you send the throttle cut assignment once.

Hola,

I have the honeycomb bravo, but I am unable to calibrate the four thrust levers (or only one). The plane detecs fine the joystick (for guidance and tiller) and pedals and flaps lever and spoilers on bravo but they do not move for asign the detents (fully manual config ON)

Any help appreciated.

Emilio Casalduero

I have the Bravo TQ quadrant with the Airbus lever pack. I cannot get this to operate correctly after mapping the controller in MSFS2024 and calibrating it in the EFB. I do not have any mapping for the reversers - just the axis for the throttles. When I move the levers back to idle (not past the detent) the reverser levers pull up and reversers engage. When I push the levers forward, the reversers start disengaging, and complete disengaging at the climb position (without the throttles moving forward), then once disengaged the throttles start moving forward. So basically the idle position is nowhere near where I calibrated it and the reversers are engaging without any mapping in MSFS2024. What?

Please have a look to the procedure attached.

TCA-A340.pdf

Try turning the invert axis option in MSFS 2024 on or off and try recalibrating after following the advice in the above PDF. I had already tried all of that but the throttles jumped from full reverse to the climb detent completely ignoring the manual throttle zone for the Airbus. Once I toggled the Invert Axis option off and on again then it started working properly after I calibrated again. I don’t have 2020 installed anymore so cannot test it there.

OK - I followed the instructions in the PDF, and tried toggling the reverse axis. I think the issue is that on the EFB, when the Bravo levers are in the idle position, the raw values are -1 - not close to zero as I believe it should be. They don't hit zero until somewhere around the climb detent. I'm leaving for a while - will check back in in a few hours. Thank you for your help. BTW - I tried swapping out the Airbus lever for a regular Bravo lever - did not change the behavior.

Yes I noticed the same thing that’s what lead me to messing with the invert option. Once that sanity checks you will then find that after calibration (IDLE, CLIMB, MCT and TOGA) it will work as expected.

18 minutes ago, brianprice49 said:

OK - I followed the instructions in the PDF, and tried toggling the reverse axis. I think the issue is that on the EFB, when the Bravo levers are in the idle position, the raw values are -1 - not close to zero as I believe it should be. They don't hit zero until somewhere around the climb detent. I'm leaving for a while - will check back in in a few hours. Thank you for your help. BTW - I tried swapping out the Airbus lever for a regular Bravo lever - did not change the behavior.

Just for the sake of checking : Did you first calibrate the bravo in the Windows Joystick utility ?

I have not - but I have been using this controller for years with a couple of dozen different aircraft with no issues - and really don't want to change anything that would affect them. Also as I said I tried checking and unchecking the reverse axis parameter to no effect.

Hi there,

I think I have a similar/ the same issue with my honeycomb Bravo. My setup: FS2024, TM TCA Airbus Edition (left handed), HC Alpha (without config), HC Bravo and Logi pedals. FSUIPC is available but not configured to process anything from the joysticks.

The config is basically the one that works on all other Addons, but on the A346 it behaves odd. If I set the hardware throttles to idle, the EFB Reads -1 and the VC throttles are on max reverse. If I advance the hardware throttles to about 75% forward, the EFB reads +0,5 and the VC throttles are on Idle with Reverses ybout to be closed. If I push the hardware throttles a bit further, the VC Throttles jump to toga power setting.

The Bravo is well calibrated and looks good in the FS2024 hardware check page thingy.

I tried to chenge the axis from engine1 to engine 1 0-100% (I hope that is the correct translation). The behaviour was the same, just the axis was inverted.

I also tried to various settings from the EFB - all having no effect.

Any additional Ideas?

PS: Flaps and spoilers work like a charm.

3 hours ago, Andy B. said:

Try turning the invert axis option in MSFS 2024 on or off and try recalibrating after following the advice in the above PDF. I had already tried all of that but the throttles jumped from full reverse to the climb detent completely ignoring the manual throttle zone for the Airbus. Once I toggled the Invert Axis option off and on again then it started working properly. I don’t have 2020 installed anymore so cannot test it there.

Also my throttles were "not jumping from full reverse to the climb detent completely ignoring the manual throttle zone'. The

Alright then - came back from lunch and moved my throttle levers forward - and nothing happened except the reversers moving forward. Went into the msfs controller settings to check to make sure everything was ok, which it was. Then pushed the throttles forward and everything is working normally. I haven't implemented reversers yet as I did not want to complicate things, but I'm inclined to just use the F2/F3 keys for that. Except that they don't work....

Yes - sounds exactly like mine. Have no ideas what 'fixed' this, and the raw data still says -1, but the reverses and throttle movement is normal now.

One thing I'm not sure about - sitting on the ground moving the throttle back and forth, the throttle annunciator on the ECASis on TOGA no matter what. But the throttles are moving, and thrust is generated normally. Have to check this out while taking off and climbing etc to see what's happening there.

And as I said, I still need to implement the reversers - but don't want to mess with anything more at this point.

One question for support - it appears that the calibration process is only for one throttle? How does that work....

Switching axis reversion on and off has not helped.

Here some screenshots, I hope they help the staff to sort something out. I just moved the engine 1 lever - engines 2,3,4 behave the same way.

Hardware Idle

Hardware 50%

Hardware about 75%

Hardware about 75% + a little bit

Hardware 100%

Martin - your scenario is very similar to mine. Mine is working now (have not implemented reversers) after fiddling around with looking at MSFS mappings, changing the Reverse Axis parameter several times. Something in that process reset the system. Unfortunately I cannot remember the exact sequence, but clearly from my and others experience- the Reverse Axis seems to be at least part of it. And something that Aerosoft needs to figure out. It’s not user error.

Hi Brian,

thank you for your input. I allready threw all reverser config over board, but the error persists. So I am going to wait and hope there is someone having a look at before weekend ends ;-)

Well I'm in the air, I followed the instructions in the PDF from Simware, but it's pretty much the same as what I did earlier.

7 hours ago, SimWare said:

Please have a look to the procedure attached.

TCA-A340.pdf

Hi, I raised a throttle calibration issue yesterday in this forum (one of the first few raised) which hasn't been replied to by aerosoft yet. The PDF doesn't help as I already did that when I first loaded trhe A340. My issue is calibration between IDLE and CL.

Hi there,

I got it sorted out. After following the attached guide step for step (allthough setting the reverse option feels odd) I made my throttle setup work. Set the axis to reverse mode and then set the IDLE - CL _MCT - TOGA steps and save them. Afterwards my setup worked. Important is also the reverser toggle switch. I somehow switched to reverse mode and then the throttles again only changed the reverser, not the throttles. Aftrer assigning a joy button to this function, everything worked fine.

So for the working setup I assigned the four engine axis to the according engines and activated the "inverse axis". Then allthough the virtual throttles were not in the expected place I started to save the IDLE - CL _MCT - TOGA positions and saved the config. Then it worked.

Happy landings

Martin

On 3/13/2026 at 8:57 PM, brianprice49 said:

but I'm inclined to just use the F2/F3 keys for that. Except that they don't work....

Did you activate the F2/F3 keys in the EFB ?