Setting up the throttle quadrant on a Honeycomb Bravo?
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Could someone please help me to correctly configure my Honecomb Bravo throttle (levers only). This is my first attempt at configuring a complex GA aircraft and I'm a bit confused - sorry. I have the flap axis and condition levers correctly set up but the adjacent propellor lever stops and will not push back through its gate nor will the throttle lever drop back into the Beta Range. Also, what do I bind the red power lever on the left of the quadrant to?
I am keen to teach myself to operate the aircraft but would greatly appreciate help with this as I am stuck.
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Some of these things are beyond the ability of the baseline sim to bind and require external software, such a Mobiflight (which is free), FSUIPC, Axes and Ohs, or Spad.Next (which are not free to varying levels).
For the main throttle axis, you can get away with using the Throttle 1 Axis (0 to 100) binding in the sim. This gives me full range of motion on the throttle, from full power through reverse. I don't have a Bravo, personally, but I have seen people on here recommending binding the button at the bottom of their relevant axis to Throttle 1 Decrease, On Press with Input Repetition, to help get fully into the reverse position. If you do that (and I do that same technique for flying with the PMDG 737 or any jet with a reverser, just not with BS turboprops), make sure to bind Throttle 1 Increase or Throttle 1 Cut to that same button, but mark it as On Release. That way, when you remove your level from that rear detent, it should move the throttle out of reverse and to/near idle.
For the propeller lever, Propeller 1 Axis should give a full range of motion other than the feather detent. To use that, I always have to bind the button at the rear of my axis to Propeller 1 Axis Decrease by a fixed value, usually 30 or 50, and this is done with FSUIPC. On release of the button, I have Propeller 1 High Pitch bound in FSUIPC, so moving my axis from the rear detent moves the virtual one to the lowest point outside of the feather detent.
The Manual Fuel Control level will have to be done wholly outside of the sim. The variable for that will be in the back of the Caravan manual, and you will likely have to do some math to normalize your axis inputs from 0 to 100 instead of the usual -16384 to 16383 range. It's simple enough but the process will vary (for most of these, actually) depending on the software you choose to use.