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You can buy the Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant at the Aerosoft store, and soon also via X-Plane.Org. The Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant cost approximately 249,99 Euros including VAT. It seems that when using Windows 10 and X-Plane 10.51r x, there’s not much difference then what I’ve seen on the Mac. That said, the moment I start Windows X-Plane, and connect the Bravo Throttle Quadrant for the first time to my iMac, you need in the same way as with macOS X-Plane, calibrate the six levers by moving them over their full travel. After that’s finished, the different Honeycomb pictures can be found with their switches, buttons and the levers. Since I only have macOS and Windows X-Plane, I wasn’t able to test the Honeycomb Bravo Quadrant with Linux. The following are only recommendations from Honeycomb Staff for the 7 Toggle switches as a guide, you can assign the toggle switches as you wish, in this example we will use the last 2 switches; I followed @Rmag’s excellent YT tutorial on configuring the Bravo ( 5 configurations for Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant in MSFS 2020. - YouTube). His tutorial is based on the PC version, which treats the Bravo as a separate peripheral, with the result that the axis and button numbering is different from the XPC version. The XPC version treats the Bravo as an extended switch and axis space of the Alpha. One consequence of this is that in the Options>Controls Options screen the device is illustrated as the combination of the Alpha, Bravo and Charlie (rudder pedals) devices, with none of the buttons or axes numbered. There is currently no correct numbering documentation.

A few days ago, I was messing with my configs and I realized, there are a lot more advanced setups you can do with the Bravo buttons and switches. This post is a configuration guide for the Bravo switch/button panel that I’ve set up to provide me quite a few extra controls in my hand. My bravo lights stopped working for some reason, first it was the auto pilot light , then the gear light stopped, now none work. I tried the christmas tree app to test the lights and this is what I got, I dont understand any of this, any help would be appreciated. To set up the Bravo Throttle for your Cessna 172 or any basic single engine prop, we will be referencing the control layout as depicted in Fig 1. The contents of this AFC_Bridge” folder has to be copied to the X-Plane plugins folder. It contains a Windows exe file as well as a macOS app file. What does is actually do? It offers a separate program that can be started without having X-Plane running, but you need to have the Honeycomb Alpha or Bravo device connected. to your PC or Mac. As of this writing – January 2021 – after several attempts I finally got Aerosoft AFC_Bridge program working with macOS Big Sur, but what said, only after several attempts. The following config setup uses switch combinations for the controls - so please be careful while assigning. It is a pain to set it up initially (mapping mistakes take time to fix and remap), but was well worth it for me as the end result is super useful. Anyway, enough talk, let’s start tweaking!Some words about the Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant. It’s heavy and feel durable and professional although it’s from plastic, but I said that before, you’ve got plastic and plastic however, they can feel as rubbish material or as professional components which is the case with the Honeycomb hardware. As written in the previous section, I managed to have a functional Honeycomb configuration app with Big Sur and followed the steps to make it the default profile as well as loading it in X-Plane. I noticed that with the Zibo loaded in a cold and dark situation, that I didn’t see the annunciator lights as expected, but it turned out that once I selected from the X-Plane Plugins – Honeycomb – BFC_Throttle menu “Reload Bindings”, the Zibo.json file was loaded and now, I have most of the light on the Bravo Throttle Quadrant illuminated. And of course, not only that, but also all the functions related to the Auto Pilot. Added "Master" LED functionality, so all LEDs can e.g. stay off when there is no electricity available I assigned the rudder axis to the yoke roll axis (in addition to the ailerons), and the brakes to the yoke pitch axis (in Addition to the elevator), which eliminated the need for rudder pedals until the Charlie unit becomes available. The thrust levers can be configured for small single- and multi-engine planes with separate flap switches. For use in an airliner you can choose a configuration with two or four thrust levers, levers for spoiler and flaps. This will then also allow you to control the thrust reverser.

CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll The Bravo Throttle Quadrant is designed with a highly configurable reverse thrust design. Conclusion The whole Bravo Throttle Quadrant feels heavy, no, better to say feels solid and made of durable components. I mentioned this before that the main housing is similar to the Alpha Flight Controls except for the front part. The plastic throttle, prop, mixture, thrust, flap and speedbrake levers are all made of plastic, but look and feel solid and realistic. Next, what when I use another add-on twin engine GA aircraft like the Nimbus Islander or perhaps the Just Flight/Thranda Duchess 76 or the Thranda Beaver? Keep in mind that when it comes to the AP assignments that this could make a difference if the AP is dedicated modeled by the developer. That said, I did first a flight short test with the Nimbus Islander. It seems that all assigned AP functions work with this aircraft, but when I tried to do the same during another flight with the Just Flight/Thranda Duchess 76, the basic functions like FLAPS UP/DOWN lever and GEAR UP/DOWN handle worked, but the AP didn’t respond do what I expected. This is probably due to different assigned X-Plane AP commands versus the default AP commands.

A few design flaws also stop me from recommending these more enthusiastically. Namely, the depth of both controller modules compared to most desks, and the fitting mechanisms which have never inspired much confidence in me. Please Note#: Certain updates from Asobo have caused issues in the past with customer profiles. If after a World Update (WU) or any other major update to MSFS causes issues with a previously working profile, you may have to delete these and create new profiles from blank. We do apologise for this, but it is currently out of our control. If we do find that certain changes are required after a WU we will update this guide accordingly. The only problem is, of this writing – January 2021 – I hardly could find at the X-Plane.Org or at the Aerosoft forum, dedicated Airbus json files. The only json file I found was for the ToLiss A319/A321, but no sign “yet” for the FlightFactor A320 Ultimate, the JARDesign A320Neo or their A330, the RW Designs A330, but for sure, the will come.

I depends a bit on how you start up your aircraft, but I assume you did it the same way as I thus with a cold and dark situation. Then you can see one of more annunciator lights illuminated on the light panel in front of the levers. How many and which lights are ON, that depends on the aircraft type you chose. When you’ve applied electrical power to the aircraft, you’ll also see the green LANDING GEAR down lights. Some words about the lights at the annunciator panel. You can’t assign these yourself, so you have to accept what’s illuminated and hope that this is correct for the aircraft you’ve loaded. With so many buttons and switches available, and in many cases the same button to provide a different function through the use of another button as a modifier, it seems the choices are nearly limitless. Out of the box, there were a few minor software issues, and a few things that needed to be configured that were not documented in the included literature. This led to multiple uncontrollable crashes initially, and made me wonder if the unit was defective. (It wasn’t, it just needed to be properly configured) I’m not exactly clear on what you are trying to achieve. If you want to tune COM1 and COM2 you can select the radio on the logitech panel and just tune it. Clearly noted in the English (and for sure in the German and French too) manual is that when you follow the cleaning instructions of the 3M Micro-Suction, you can be use on and on. In other words, there’s no need to keep, once you’ve placed the mounting plate with the 3M Micro-Suction to the table, it mounted on the table. When you don’t need the mounting plate for a while, then follow the instructions in the manual, reapply the plastic covering to preserve quality and condition of the 3M Micro-Suction.Important: Before you uninstall the old version, please be sure to export your profiles to a save place! CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll

I created the separate profiles needed for the different throttle configurations i. e. GA Simple Single Engine, GA Complex Single Engine, GA Complex Twin Engine, Commercial 2 Engine, Commercial 3 Engine, Commercial 4 Engine, TBN930, etc. Fixed bug with wrong indexing for "sim/flightmodel2/gear/deploy_ratio" in default Bravo throttle profile (gear LEDs) I have actually stopped using MSFS common controls for all button behaviors. I find it easier to just look at the aircraft’s model behavior file and see what event is getting triggered for a button and set the correct value externally through simconnect. What can I add to this Summary with such an in-depth review of the Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant? Honestly, I don’t know. I sincerely hope you enjoyed this review. I can tell you that it was an honer that X-Plained.Com was able to review this piece of Honeycomb flight simulation hardware. It tried to cover every part, section or whatever was needed to write an unbiased in-depth impression.CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll When you connect the Bravo Throttle Quadrant while X-Plane is already up and running, a popup window appears that tells you that new hardware is detected. Not just new hardware, no, it tells you that the Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant is connected and needs to be calibrated as is needed with all connected hardware. Once you’ve calibrated the six levers by moving them over their full travel, the calibration process finishes. There are only 2 control surfaces we need to setup on the Bravo Throttle for a GA style aircraft, this will work for single, complex and twin prop aircraft. A robust dual-mounting solution will keep the Bravo in its place with 40lb of tensile strength. Installation It would be great if we could keep this thread alive with input from the community as to their configs so that others may benefit. I know I’m not using my hardware to the fullest functionality and with some imagination (and time configuring) I could do a lot better. I also hope to someday eliminate the in game ATC and get onto VATSIM. If/when I do it will obviously free up all the buttons/switches I’m currently using for ATC.