Keybind for reverse thrust?

[DreamingInfraviolet]

Is there a way to assign a reverse thrust button? Right now I'm really struggling with binding it in such a way that the plane doesn't fall over backwards when I zero my throttles.

I've a Honeycomb Bravo throttle, which works like this:

* There's an axis from 0-100, with no detent in between.
* There's a detent at 0.
* Below 0, there's no axis, but button signals are sent (e.g. for reverse thrust).

So I want to bind reverse thrust in the following way:
* 0-100: No reverse thrust, normal forward thrust.
* Button signal sent: 100% reverse thrust.

Is such a binding possible? I tried to find bindings to activate reverse thrust, but can't find anything.

Thanks!

[Indianajon]

You need to advance the throttle to 100 and back to 0 once you have done that it will pull back into the reverse thrust. You can do it before you turn the engines on. I was having the same issue and realised this is how I fixed it

[H60MTI]

That's the issue a lot of us are running into right now since there is no "idle" on the bird, just PLA position. It goes into reverse automatically once that PLA goes below a certain number.

[Nereid]

I would like a button that has to be pressed before a throttle goes into reverse. Yes that's not how it works in the real plane. But because some do not have detents for that, it would solve some troubles. I'm using my 4 levers on the Virpil SharKa-50 and they do not have detents.

Maybe an option in the specials page?

Edited 1 hour ago by Nereid

[Indianajon]

I found that it starts to shake and there is a change in sound once you pass the idle position into the reverse thrust. I don't have a detent either and have found it fairly intuitive after a little playing around.

[Jester986]

On 11/28/2025 at 10:42 AM, DreamingInfraviolet said:

Is there a way to assign a reverse thrust button? Right now I'm really struggling with binding it in such a way that the plane doesn't fall over backwards when I zero my throttles.

I've a Honeycomb Bravo throttle, which works like this:

* There's an axis from 0-100, with no detent in between.
* There's a detent at 0.
* Below 0, there's no axis, but button signals are sent (e.g. for reverse thrust).

So I want to bind reverse thrust in the following way:
* 0-100: No reverse thrust, normal forward thrust.
* Button signal sent: 100% reverse thrust.

Is such a binding possible? I tried to find bindings to activate reverse thrust, but can't find anything.

Thanks!

I’d like to see this too

[shagrat]

Almost every other heavy airliner with thrust reverser in "that civilian Flightsimulations" uses the concept, of an option to use the normal throttle axis, from 0-100% and in the 0% position you press (and usually hold) a "Reverse Thrust Button", now you can use the full 0-100% to control reverse thrust.

Is it realistic, like in the real aircraft? No.

Does it make sense with the equipment we have in flight sims? Hell yeah! 

This should at least be an option.

The majority of the throttle hardware I got my hands on, until now has either no detent at all, a (virtual) "button" detent you can program, or a physical detent at maybe 5% of the travel, so it's maybe 2% travel left after pushing back into the detent...

[III_Nick_III]

This is exactly what we need. I've brought it up with someone in the know and they were just being belligerent about it and calling me an idiot however, so don't hold your breath.

[AusGoose]

We have had a lot of feedback about this, and we are looking into it.

So those in this thread are aware, we went through a lot of discussion internally as the development progressed on how we would do this. We settled on the two options in there presently, and we were waiting to see where the consensus was before making more changes. The suggestions have been noted, we are looking into it.

FWIW I'm a warhog user, I don't use auto reverse (I don't find it good for me, just how I fly). I just use the engine diagnostics page to keep myself out of ground range in flight, when at low power. Since yesterday, I also made myself a physical 'detent' for my warthog, which so far works well. It only took a few minutes to fashion one from a plastic shelf stud, dropped in to the slot under the middle detent cover.

Cheers

[Swagger897]

Having better luck with just setting the slider to 0.0 and not having any reverse at all. I'm not going to bother with using reverse until some sort of solution can be found.

DCS's control UI is one of the best, however, users are almost always overloaded on keys required unless multiple modifiers are used, to which such modifiers then take up available key presses. This sim is simply not designed to have reverse thrust modeled. 

[Buster0083]

2 hours ago, AusGoose said:

We have had a lot of feedback about this, and we are looking into it.

So those in this thread are aware, we went through a lot of discussion internally as the development progressed on how we would do this. We settled on the two options in there presently, and we were waiting to see where the consensus was before making more changes. The suggestions have been noted, we are looking into it.

FWIW I'm a warhog user, I don't use auto reverse (I don't find it good for me, just how I fly). I just use the engine diagnostics page to keep myself out of ground range in flight, when at low power. Since yesterday, I also made myself a physical 'detent' for my warthog, which so far works well. It only took a few minutes to fashion one from a plastic shelf stud, dropped in to the slot under the middle detent cover.

Cheers

I can make it work quite well with the auto reverse and my Virpil CM3 throttle; I use the finger-lift detent at the bottom end of the range and I can tweak that in "ground mode" of the auto-reverse function to kick in right at the detent. Perhaps for users with similar setups, it would be useful to have the same slider available for the airborne range too, so that we can set it to stop at the bottom detent and not have to use the finger-lifts to get into flight idle while airborne. A nice to have though, not a need to have, it works quite well as it is.

[Jenrick]

Only complaint is make the detent setting persistent so I don't have to change it on every flight.  Besides that works just fine for me.

[shagrat]

vor 6 Stunden schrieb Buster0083:

I can make it work quite well with the auto reverse and my Virpil CM3 throttle; I use the finger-lift detent at the bottom end of the range and I can tweak that in "ground mode" of the auto-reverse function to kick in right at the detent. Perhaps for users with similar setups, it would be useful to have the same slider available for the airborne range too, so that we can set it to stop at the bottom detent and not have to use the finger-lifts to get into flight idle while airborne. A nice to have though, not a need to have, it works quite well as it is.

Do you have a screenshot? What settings in DCS axis tweak, and C-130J settings?

I still struggle to find any usable setup, and consider deactivating the damn reverser and wait for a proper "Reverse Thrust engage" button, like in every other aircraft sim that has a reverser.

I appreciate that the ASC team put a lot of effort in "other ways" to more accurately reflect the real controls, but honestly, the "well established solution", may be "well established" for good reason.

[dahui]

9 hours ago, AusGoose said:

We have had a lot of feedback about this, and we are looking into it.

So those in this thread are aware, we went through a lot of discussion internally as the development progressed on how we would do this. We settled on the two options in there presently, and we were waiting to see where the consensus was before making more changes. The suggestions have been noted, we are looking into it.

FWIW I'm a warhog user, I don't use auto reverse (I don't find it good for me, just how I fly). I just use the engine diagnostics page to keep myself out of ground range in flight, when at low power. Since yesterday, I also made myself a physical 'detent' for my warthog, which so far works well. It only took a few minutes to fashion one from a plastic shelf stud, dropped in to the slot under the middle detent cover.

Cheers

Would you mind to provide a picture?

 

 

I also would like to have the option to use 100% Physical Travel of my throttle on the warthog and map a button for the Reverse (Like the Throttle is on the Warthog). And that as an option to choose in the special options. (I understood that you have to set it up currently everytime you load a new flight in the Kneeboard?)

[Arecibo]

On 11/28/2025 at 5:42 PM, DreamingInfraviolet said:

* There's an axis from 0-100, with no detent in between.
* There's a detent at 0.
* Below 0, there's no axis, but button signals are sent (e.g. for reverse thrust).

I use the Turtle Beach Velocity One and it behaves the same. Agreed, It would be great if that button could be mapped to reverse thrust.