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Further steps aren’t needed. As Eugeny Romanov from JARDesign said to me “it should work out of the box” and I can confirm that this is correct. However, a couple of things are different compared to what I saw with the ToLiss. Advantage of the JARDesign aircraft is that no other software or script is needed to get it working with the TCA equipment except from the steps above to perform. Everything is working as expected, no, as I had hoped for, including the SPEEDBRAKE ARM mode or it’s better to say the GND SPLR ARM mode, but it took a bit more effort to get it so far, at least, when you compare it with the previous discussed aircraft. Iconic Airbus Quadrant controls including trim, landing gear, autobrake, rudder trim and parking brake, for total immersion Ho ho, no worries for those who like to fly the Airbus A340 from JARDesign or ToLiss. You can use the Thrustmaster set also for the Airbus A340 Series by setting a switch on the lower front of the Throttle Quadrant to 3 / 4 engines but be honest with me, a much better solution in my humble opinion is …… buy an extra TCA Quadrant Airbus Edition and mount it in-between. Then you have 4 dedicated engine throttles.
Airbus replica feeling action buttons and 4 axes on the Quadrant for a multitude of possibilities in flight The operation of the thrust reversers is very nicely made. The lever in front of each throttle can be lifted and with the throttle in the IDLE position, you can move the throttle into the yellow arc area. Just in case; you can always lift the reverse lever, even when the throttle isn’t in IDLE, but that has no function. In real the reverser levers aren’t operable as long as the throttles aren’t in the IDLE position.Replicas of Airbus airliner controls (A320neo type), feel realistic sensations when using the throttle quadrant’s buttons, detents and other controls — just like a real aircraft captain. I personally find this a better way then seen with other hardware simulator developers who offer a large knob. The reason I bring this up is that turning such a knob goes much easier with the disadvantage in my humble opinion that you can easily over-tighten the friction while the way you do it on the Thrustmaster TCA equipment, you have a tiny tool to add more friction in a more gently way and prevent over tight the mechanism.
Hidden underneath the throttle quadrant you find in a small plastic bag and a leaflet with on one size in very small letters the warrantee information, environmental protection info, and where to get additional manuals, drivers and software. This all in different languages. The PARK BRK lever normally has ON and OFF text on the sub pedestal panel, but in this design there’s not really space for that, so Thrustmaster left that out. The PARK BRK lever works very simple as it is now; when you can read the text PARK BRK then you’ve released the parking brake else the brakes are SET. Quadrant Part I : Throttle Alignment Calibration
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Hold on, what about GA aircraft or other twin engine commuters and commercial aircraft? I didn’t test all available default or other manufactures, but overall can be said that for most aircraft all assignments work out of the box, at least all default X-Plane commands. And yes, I’m also aware that when you have a GA aircraft with a PROP and MIXTURE lever then you run into problems, but I may assume that when you decide to buy or bought already the Thrustmaster TCA flight equipment, you’re not going to use it with GA aircraft, right? The markings near the SPEEDBRAKE handle, the throttle levers and the FLAP handle are unique for the modern Airbus aircraft. The Captains set may be initially mend for twin engine Airbus aircraft, but you can also use it with 4 engine Airbus models like the A340-500 from JARDesign, the A340-600 from ToLiss or the older A380 from Peters Aircraft. You can use it with these aircraft as it is – don’t forget to select the switch from ENG 1&2 to 3&4 – or even better, buy an additional quadrant throttle set and place it in-between the Captains set. Automatically integrated into the game Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (sold separately) on Xbox Series X|S and PC Join us from 8:00 P.M. (CET) on the official Microsoft Flight Simulator Twitch.tv channel to discover the new Airbus range compatible with Xbox Series X|S and PC! Led by our ambassadors and the great MFS team, prepare yourself properly to fly over the clouds aboard your Airbus airliner. It’s much like the Thrustmaster wheel family in this respect. But perhaps even better in this case as you could remap the throttle to do… something else. Planes aren’t exactly short of controls to map.
These are the small differences I noticed. Not a problem since the function works, but it is slightly different then in the modeled aircraft. Overall I can say that it works very well and when you’ve programmed as I tried to show you in our video the A320neo first, it will work also for their A330. There’s no difference except then that the throttles and their markings on the pedestal are different then on the A320.It may not look all that high-end, but its motion is extremely smooth and the moderate spring-based lets you make fine-grain movements with total confidence. In case you’re wondering why Thrustmaster called it the “Captains” set while no new components are added. You have individual TCA components, you have the Officers set and now also the Captains set. The difference between the Officer and Captain sets are the add-on quadrant components. This way of assigniment clearly doesn’t work. I don’t know why this happens but we can solve it as mentioned in a previous post, thus by assigning via the input list. However, this is different for the Windows firmware update software. For a common reason Thrustmaster doesn’t has any firmware software for macOS since Mac isn’t really a platform for games according to Hercules Thrustmaster. I do agree that Mac isn’t a gaming platform, but I don’t think that X-Plane is a game, but it’s a highly sophisticated flight simulation program and standard available for both Windows, macOS and Linux. Perhaps a firmware update will also be available for macOS in the near future. Connecting and Configuration : macOS/Windows
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