Honeycomb Bravo Throttle - Base Profile - MSFS (PC/MAC)

The Following guide is a base setup for standard GA Aircraft. While this guide features recommendations from the Honeycomb Staff you can change this to whatever you feel comfortable with. Please reference the images below for button & axis names for MSFS. You can use the base of this profile for any other GA aircraft with only modifications to the throttle, mixture & prop axis', the Autopilot panel will work with the same setting's for all GA and some jet aircraft.

#Please Note#:    Certain updates from Asobo have caused issues in the past with customer profiles. If after a World Update (WU) or any other major update to MSFS causes issues with a previously working profile, you may have to delete these and create new profiles from blank. We do apologise for this, but it is currently out of our control. If we do find that certain changes are required after a WU we will update this guide accordingly.

Fig1. The Single Prop setup

Fig 2. Button Numbers

Fig 3. Axis Names

 

To set up the Bravo Throttle for your Cessna 172 or any basic single engine prop, we will be referencing the control layout as depicted in Fig 1.

In MSFS, open the control options and select the Bravo Throttle from the list at the top. Once you have the Bravo selected go to the bottom of the page, select 'pre-set manager' and click 'New Profile' - I recommend naming this - 'Test Profile Single Engine prop' - Once you have completed this setup you can duplicate the profile and rename it to the aircraft type and make any modifications you deem fit. You can also use this as a base profile. On the left side, please ensure you have the assignments selected to all.

THROTTLE SETUP

1 - Throttle

Under the power Management Tab, select Throttle and scroll down to locate 'THROTTLE 1 AXIS' to this you can assign 'Joystick L-AXIS Y'

Depending upon your system, if you notice the throttle inside the simulator is reversed to your hardware, you will need to check the 'Reverse Axis' box under the assignment name. Note this will also apply to the mixture and in the case of the fixed pitch & twin engine fixed pitch the propeller levers

2 - Mixture

Again under the main Power Management tab, open the Mixture tab and scroll down to locate the 'Mixture 1 Axis (-100 to 100%) to this assign 'Joystick L-AXIS X'

AUTOPILOT SETUP

From the main tabs open Autopilot;

Assignment Name                                Button Number                         Function

Toggle Autopilot Master                                             8                             Turn's the Autopilot on/off

Set Autopilot Airspeed Hold                                       7                                  Engages IAS/FLC Hold

Set Autopilot VS Hold                                                 6                        Enables Vertical Speed for climb/decent

Toggle Autopilot Altitude Hold                                   5                                       Engages ALT Hold

Toggle Autopilot Localizer hold                                  4                           Engage LOC capture for Approaches

Toggle Autopilot Approach Hold                                3                                Engage the ILS or GPS Approach

Toggle Nav1 Hold                                                        2                       Engage LNAV for FMS/GPS/VOR Navigation

Toggle Autopilot Heading Hold                                  1                      Engage Heading Select for Manual navigation

To use the rotary knob on the left to select the instrument you wish to use (i.e. Airspeed, Altitude, Vertical Speed etc...) open the Flight Instruments tab and assign the following;

Select VSI Bug                                Button 20

Select Heading Bug                        Button 19

Select Altitude Bug                         Button 21

Select Airspeed Bug                       Button 17

Next, open the main Radio Tab and open VOR

VOR OBS                                        Button 18

To increase and decrease the selections above, you will use the rotary knob on the right

Open the Miscellaneous Tab

Plus                                                       Button 13

Minus                                                    Button 14

The following are only recommendations from Honeycomb Staff for the 7 Toggle switches as a guide, you can assign the toggle switches as you wish, in this example we will use the last 2 switches;

Autopilot;

Yaw Damper On                                     Button 44

Yaw Damper Off                                     Button 45

Instrument And Systems;

  - Anti Ice

Set Pitot Heat                                          Button 46

Pitot Heat Off                                          Button 47

Flight Control Surfaces

There are only 2 control surfaces we need to setup on the Bravo Throttle for a GA style aircraft, this will work for single, complex and twin prop aircraft.

Open the Flight Control Surfaces tab;

 - Control Trimming Surfaces

Elevator Trim Up (Nose Up)                      Button 23

Elevator Trim Down (Nose Down)            Button 22

 - Secondary Control Surfaces

Increase Flaps                                          Button 15

Decrease Flaps                                         Button 16

Landing Gear

Gear Up                                                           Button 31

Gear Down                                                      Button 32

Congratulations, you have successfully configured your Honeycomb Bravo, you are now setup to fly single engine General Aviation aircraft such as the Cessna 172 or 152.

Please see our other guides for Complex, Twin Prop, Twin Jet & Quad Jet aircraft.