Night Rider

Sorry I took so long to reply to your reply, Pete. Thanks very much for your response. I had finally got it to work reliably. What I ended up doing is using the CH Throttle Quadrant Control Manager to see what "phantom" buttons were "pressed" when the throttle levers were retarded beyond the detent position. Those "buttons" were used to activate the reverse thrust by editing the device.cfg file and using your documented list of variable names corresponding to actions peformed in FS. to activate reversers 1 and 2. THEN, to eliminate the zero position chatter (uncertainty) in the throttle levers I used the Control Manager again to put in the dead zone (I found that a dead zone value of 7 works the best for me). After all that is when I used FSUIPC to map throttles 1 and 2 to use 3 and 4 engine jets. I think that if CH had done a better job of documenting how to use their throttle quadrant (in fact, all of their controls that I've seen), I would have had a much easier time getting it to work correctly. The quality of their controls seems very high - it's a shame they don't make them easier to understand how to program.

Gary, If you are still monitoring this forum, can you let me know what edit you did in the FS9.cfg file to make the reversers work on the PMDG 737? I too, have been experiencing the same problems with the PMDG that you have, even up to this day, and I don't know what PMDG has done to repair them. By the way, Pete, In case Gary isn't monitoring this forum anymore, can you help me with this? I just registered your FSUIPC (v3.50), and if nothing else, I'd like to get the reversers working when I bring the throttle levers back beyond idle detent.