KenR

I'm happy to report that I have successfully programmed my throttle quadrant button 21 to engage the thrust reverser. I did this by selecting throttle decr from the pull down menu in the buttons tab. All is well now. Thanks for the help.

I verified that Win 8 recognizes the yoke (control panel/devices & printers) and I can actually go into its settings and properties and find that the throttle (axis Z) does move into reverse (button 21). On my PC I have a total of 10 devices and one joystick device. So far so good. In game, I go to options/settings/controls/calibration tab - controller type pull down lists three items 1. Saitek Pro Flight Yoke, 2. Mouse yoke, 3. Mouse look. I then click on calibrate/properties/settings/calibrate, and run through the game device calibration wizard. Going through this wizard is where the problem is because the wizard doesn't allow movement past the detent, thus no reverser. I know it worked on my XP machine but I repeat myself. I understand your comments about not needing the Axis Assignment tab to calibrate the axis, but you didn't explain why that tab does not recognize my yoke. Shouldn't it? So I'm back to relying on FSUIPC to remedy this situation. I tried to follow the instructions for calibrating the joystick as mentioned previously but with no success. So any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

FSX does recognize the Saitek yoke but not the throttle quadrant although when calibrating within FSX I can calibrate all axis and buttons on the quadrant. So if FSX recognizes it then doesn't win 8 also recognize it? So if There's a compatibility issue between Saitek and Win 8, and therefore FSUIPC doesn't recognize the throttle quadrant (in the Axis Assignments page), can FSUIPC program my throttle to go into reverse thrust?

I just registered the latest version on my FSX machine. I'm also using Saitek Pro flight Yoke System and throttle quadrant. I just recently bought a new PC with Win 8.1. After installing FSX and SP 1 & 2 I copied over all my aircraft, AI aircraft, and scenery files from my XP machine. These file are rather large since I've been simming for many, many years. Until now I've been using the unregistered version of FSUIPC (thank you). But with a new PC I decided to do the right thing and register. So here's my problem. My Saitek throttle will not go into reverse thrust on this PC. It worked fine on my XP machine but not on the new one. After reading the user guide I thought I could use the joystick calibration feature in FSUIPC to overcome this issue but it's not doing anything. When I go to the Axis Assignment tab nothing is being shown (all greyed out). No Saitek anything. I pressed Reload all Assignments and Rescan but nothing happened. So I guess until FSUIPC recognizes my stick it can't calibrate it. All I really want is to get my throttle to go into reverse thrust. I contacted Saitek tech support and they were no help. If you can help with this I'd appreciate it. Thanks.