Orion 2 Throttle Afterburner Setting

[brettt777]

Okay, I finally got my vibration working on my F-16EX stick, now I need to figure out the afterburner setup. In DCS, if I move the FA-18 throttle up to the AB stop, it goes to 100%. But if I push it past the stop into AB, nothing happens. No afterburner at all. I have calibrated the throttles in SimAppPro, but not absolutely sure if I did it correctly. During the calibration it says to move the throttle from idle to max. Does that mean as far as it will go including past the AB gate, or just up to the AB gate? And the AB calibration says move both axis to the AB at the same time. So that means actually past the gate into AB, correct? If I do all this correctly, am I suppose to see any kind of indication when I go past the AB gate? The way I have it now, when I put the throttles to max, i.e. right up to the AB gate, the throttle test indications show them going to max, 100%. When I go past the gate into AB, I get no indication that anything changed. What am I missing here? When I try to set the AB position in the FA-18 throttle settings, nothing happens. It shows no indication at all when I go to AB. What am I doing wrong? I am sure this is just a setting somewhere. The SimAppPro manual is rather vague about many of these procedures...

[speed-of-heat]

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DCS: Detent Calculator Spreadsheet & Software v1017 by JC of DI and Bailey (digitalcombatsimulator.com)

 

[nick_thain]

Hey @brettt777,

I know this thread is pretty old, but I had the same confusion recently with SimAppPro and figured it out, so I'll drop what I found here just in case:

• The 'Max' in SimAppPro is NOT what you would normally call 'Mil'; it's the absolute maximum top of the throttle axes.
• The way I found this out was by just looking at the Orion 2 throttle; it's clearly labelled next to the throttle axes.
• I then recalibrated the Rx and Ry axes, this time pushing them both past the 'Mil' detent all the way to the top.
• I then recalibrated thre Afterburners bu pushing both throttles past the 'Mil' detent to the top (which I think makes no sense, but whatever).
• When I then tested the throttle axes in SimAppPro, they looked nad acted like they should.
• Same goes for DCS; before, the 'Mil' detent acted as 100% in the controlls settings when editing the axes. Now they behave as you'd expect.

Hope this helps yourself or anyone else!

Cheers, Nick          

[MustangSally]

My pinned post explains everything

[nick_thain]

@MustangSally Ok… I’m not seeing the pinned post here though. Just trying to help this guy in this thread.

[MustangSally]

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/245531-aligning-ab-detent-and-throttle-calibration-how-to/

 

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Edited February 27 by MustangSally

[nick_thain]

Yup,

Knew about your pinned message @MustangSally.

Given that your pinned message was posted Sep 2000, @brettt777's question was posted 3 years later in May 2023, and @speed-of-heat's response was not focussed on WinWing's SimAppPro, I thoguht I could be of some use.

Thanks for piling on. 

[MustangSally]

In fact posted in Sep 2020 and it still works IF you follow the instructions. A lot of users cannot be bothered reading and wish to be spoon fed.

Edited February 27 by MustangSally