CH Products Throttle Quadrant USB (300-133)
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Customer Review: Functional Interface
Summary: 4 Stars
This item lives up to the description indicated. It's very easy to use and adequately simulates real aircraft control.Customer Review: Good Product But Horrible Support
Summary: 3 Stars
I was very excited ordering this product, amazon delivered it very quickly and i was very happy that it arrived much earlier than i expected. After i opened the box i arranged the axis nobs according to the setting i wanted and plugged it in. My first delema was when i took out the "software" cd and found that the highest OS it has is windows XP, sadly my OS is windows 7 64bit. So i went to CH's site and downloaded the closest one i could find which was for vista 64. Well, i installed the software and my throttle was detected and it seemed ok. I do not own a registered version of FSUIPC so i had to manually set the reverse thrust, so far it was ok....
Suddenly the settings went haywire, the first throttle jumped 50% up at idle and then slowly everything else went wrong with the throttle axis. I immediately contacted their support and they replied in about 2-3 days asking me for my sensitivity. i tried replying to that person on the next day (friday) and i kept getting "undelivered" emails. so i tried again next tuesday and my message went and i havent heard any reply from them even until today, if it wasn't for the CH forums that i found after a long search, i found someone that had a similar problem and followed the solution then it started working properly.
So yeah if you are using Flight Simulator X and windows vista 64 or windows 7 64 you are very likely to get that problem. Solution is to just run fsx and go to "calibrate" then click on the CH throttle and do not calibrate, just click on the top left tab then click "Set to default" and then click ok and close fsx. After that go to the CH control software and then calibrate it there and then run fsx and it will work fine.
For the reverse thrust you can just assign "throttle (Decrease quickly)" to the button that is activated below the minimum of any of the axis or just buy and register FSUIPC and you dont need to assign anything.
Customer Review: software
Summary: 3 Stars
I have had the CH throttle quadrant, the CH flight pedals, and the CH yoke and they make a great cockpit for flight MS Flight sim. and other war bird sims, but the throttle quadrant has a few issues. i love its many switches that i customize through in game options, but the software it came with sucks. every time i reboot my 2008 Toshiba laptop (which is built for this stuff) the CH control manager is not responsive and shuts off. This would bother me, but i don't really care much for out-of-game programming but this is something one must know before buying this product. I haven't found out how to enable reverse thrust or switch the colors around even with my little time on the software. maybe it is just my gaming laptop of 2008 but it did not work out so great for me. i recommend it, only on the basis that i don't care about the software. If your serious, get it, its the best on the market.Customer Review: Performance matching.
Summary: 3 Stars
The CH Throttle Quadrant 300-133 is very good in software matching. The Working in Windows 2000 and XP has gone well. The thing in this unit to work on is the through gradiant in control during landings. The need for more gradient to through ratio is necessary for matching flight control throttle during landings. It is better to use auto throttle and switch this one on during landings and taxi and takeoffs. The buttons tab set of 12 at front of unit need to be spread out and labeled to make them effective and more usable. Hitting one during play is possible and can trigger and option not wanted at that moment.Customer Review: Its the only thing going :(
Summary: 3 Stars
The levers are actually pretty small. Not very realistic at all. It was VERY difficult to calibrate. I had to resort to google to find out why some of the assignments (reverse thrust) didnt work properly until I adjusted the factory default settings. I guess I was lucky to run across a thread with someone else having the same problem.
I use it for FS9. Its the only thing going at a reasonable price so what can you do? I reccommend it, but its not really that great. I'm not going to rave about it.