Question on kicking out of afterburner

[dburne]

Oftentimes I see in the Hornet my virtual throttle in the cockpit will just kick out of afterburner to full mil power with me not moving my physical throttle. Is this normal, ie are there certain conditions that maybe cause this?

Pretty sure it has nothing to do with my throttle, I have viewed the axis moving in testing it and see no odd behavior. I recently got a new CM3 Throttle and pretty sure it was doing it with my Warthog throttle previously as well. 

 

Thanks for any clarification on this,

[HammerUK9]

Shouldn't happen and have never experienced this. ATC mode does backdrive the throttles briefly but you can't engage it while in AB.

 

Tried disconnecting the throttle and using Numpad +/- for a bit?

[dburne]

Ok I think I have found and corrected the issue.

Normally I check for this but I guess I missed it on this one. I got both a new throttle and a new VKB Ultimate Grip in recent weeks.

The Ultimate grip has a twist axis, which I have locked as I don't use it.

 

Did some checking this morning, and turns out DCS had assigned the twist axis on my VKB Ultimate Grip to Thrust. And the axis was showing slightly turned to the left, so that I am sure was conflicting with my left/right thrust axis I have assigned to my Virpil CM3 Throttle.

Will be flying later on this morning but am confident this issue will be resolved for me. Duh, after all the years I have had DCS I should know better by now lol.

 

Edit: Yep that was it. All is good now.

 

Edited January 25, 2021 by dburne

[LTRMcrew]

ah the wonderful dcs update random bugs...