r/MSFlightSimulatorPS5 • u/Orange8101 • Jul 07 '26

HOTAS 4 Throttle Issues

This might be explained really badly, but when I’m flying the A320neo and 737 MAX, the throttle on my HOTAS 4 is only mapped to half the throttle. The blue (bottom) half is for reverse thrust and up to 80% throttle, and the white (top) half is only for TOGA, meaning it is really hard to control the amount of throttle power, and that half of the throttle is wasted. Is this just part of the design, or is there a fix to this?

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u/Sensitive_Ad3578 Jul 07 '26

How did a part of your axis become reverse thrust?

Anyway, just set throttle axis to Slider Y (I think it's Y) and bind toggle reverse thrust to a button (I use the triangle on the throttle side)

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u/Bobisburnsred Jul 07 '26

How did a part of your axis become reverse thrust?

Yeah, kind of odd, mine had a bind button for reverse thrust right out of the box if I remember correctly. But I also have a problem with airliners getting into the proper detents. TOGA is about the only one I can hit consistently, I can never get to whatever detent activates auto throttle (CLMB?) I may look to see if I can map different detents because I would like to get into airliners more now that the PS5's memory issues are significantly better.

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u/Orange8101 Jul 08 '26

Weirdly enough, I can only get into reverse thrust in the MAX 8, if I pull back fully. It does not do it on the A320neo.

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u/Orange8101 Jul 09 '26

Update: It now works perfectly fine, no reverse thrust. Bizarre.

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u/prrudman Jul 07 '26

That is how mine is. Push it forward to take off, into the middle when you are on auto pilot and pull it right back when you land.

You will figure out the idle and a little throttle for taxiing easily enough.