Orinks wrote:I haven't had a need to use the throttle manager. Could we control the sim AP speeds as well?
The throttle manager is for aircraft that do not have auto-throttle, but also works with those that do.
At this present time the simulators do not allow control of the auto-throttle installed into aircraft so they are accessed in the normal way on a per aircraft basis due to the different engines and power to weight ratio and so on.
I'm using the Ideal Flight Throttle Manager almost exclusively now, which works on a four second cycle and uses a learning technique to assess the power. It's not perfect but works well, better with lower power aircraft due to acceleration of high power jets for example. It can also be used for taxi and parking speeds for normally sighted users.
At the moment I'm improving the Assist functions and catching some caveats and bugs in there. I'm also including a checkbox window for the setting of the AP functions to go with the controls that set the altitude hold, vertical speed, and the others. Setting DME 1 or 2, AP Master on/off, Heading hold on/off, Nav hold, Approach hold, back course, Altitude, NAV/GPS, maybe some others...
Other improvements are in there to smooth over the use of the new functions. I'll be putting more in the Help (F1) system.