Additional features include a general aviation autopilot, annunciator lights and a switch panel. The trim wheel and undercarriage lever can also be seen in this shot. Mounting Perhaps this will be modified by kavster as soon as he has time. But the good news is that the Auto Pilot left-hand and right hand selectors on the Bravo are copying information to the ToLiss Auto Flight FCU (Flight Control Unit). That said, when I enter a speed, altitude or heading, it can be seen on the FCU. You and I need to keep in mind that for example the Zibo 738 and other add-on aircraft aircraft have complex Auto Flight systems. With these Auto Flight systems and the belonging MCP or FCU, it’s not always possible to cover every caution light on the Bravo or the Bravo Auto Pilot section. Summary I have a dual installation of XP11 & 12 (till all my addon aircraft are compatible). After an initial frustration I managed to make the XP11 profiles work in XP12, but it is a bit quirky. Here's how I made it work: Clearly noted in the English (and for sure in the German and French too) manual is that when you follow the cleaning instructions of the 3M Micro-Suction, you can be use on and on. In other words, there’s no need to keep, once you’ve placed the mounting plate with the 3M Micro-Suction to the table, it mounted on the table. When you don’t need the mounting plate for a while, then follow the instructions in the manual, reapply the plastic covering to preserve quality and condition of the 3M Micro-Suction.

As written in the previous section, I managed to have a functional Honeycomb configuration app with Big Sur and followed the steps to make it the default profile as well as loading it in X-Plane. I noticed that with the Zibo loaded in a cold and dark situation, that I didn’t see the annunciator lights as expected, but it turned out that once I selected from the X-Plane Plugins – Honeycomb – BFC_Throttle menu “Reload Bindings”, the Zibo.json file was loaded and now, I have most of the light on the Bravo Throttle Quadrant illuminated. And of course, not only that, but also all the functions related to the Auto Pilot. It supports both A: variables and L: variables. Putting the technojargon to one side, if you want to make the MASTER WARNING and MASTER CAUTION lights work, you need a tool that can read L: variables from MSFS. AFC Bridge doesn’t support L: variables. What’s most important and something you and I would expect, is that all the AP related switches and levers (remember, only for a 4 engine jet aircraft) are correctly assigned. There’s an additional row of switches in front of the levers. These switches are not yet assigned to anything, so you’re free to use them for your own. Of course, you’re always free to change other already assigned switches, or knobs to what you prefer, but basically it should be left assigned to the most logical switch, knob or lever. When you select for example the commercial four engine configuration, then all levers belonging to this are correctly assigned. I just got my bravo throttle quadrant today, and use it with my Alpha Yoke. Before I got the bravo, I had throttle, mixture, flaps, trimmmapped to the toggle buttons on the yoke for the C152 so far. Tonight I moved them to the Bravo and and no issues when using the axis. This week I will be mapping the C172, King Air, and CJ4. BBL provides a number of significant improvements over the original Aerosoft/Honeycomb Bravo Lights driver:Yes, of course, the Auto Pilot section on the Bravo Throttle Quadrant is different then the MCP in the modeled 738, but it’s right now more important that you can enter via the Bravo your IAS, HDG and ALT. That said, with the loaded Zibo.json file you can set the left-hand knob to ALT, HDG or IAS and with the right-hand rotary knob you increase or decrease the value which is visible on the MCP in the sim. During climb and initial cruise level, I was able to control the aircraft Auto Pilot with the help of the Bravo dedicated Zibo.json plugin and I can tell you, that it works to my satisfaction. On Last Note ….. Airbus Models The Bravo is made to be highly configurable and can be set up to replicate the controls found in any number of aircraft types, including four-engine airliners. Additional Features on the Bravo IMPORTANT!) I ran the honeycomb-configurator.exe from INSIDE the newly copied AFCBridge folder in XP12 plugins It is possible to replicate the throttle layout of complex single-engine piston-powered aircraft such as the Cessna 182 Skylane or the Piper PA-28 Arrow. I have tried probably about 30 different profiles and manually built them out, tried modifying the default, and I get nothing. Every other button works as its assigned, but these levers are really throwing me. Absolutely does not work out of box. And yes, I did delete my other throttle and assigned this as default

The whole Bravo Throttle Quadrant feels heavy, no, better to say feels solid and made of durable components. I mentioned this before that the main housing is similar to the Alpha Flight Controls except for the front part. The plastic throttle, prop, mixture, thrust, flap and speedbrake levers are all made of plastic, but look and feel solid and realistic. It is correct that X-Plane 11 uses for specific hardware only 1 joy file. However, with this basic joy file you can create several user profiles and assign them to different aircraft. I’ll give you an example about this in the coming paragraphs. The problem is that the Bravo Throttle Quadrant has many switches, levers, knobs of which most can be configured within X-Plane but when it comes to the annunciator lights, the integral AP lights, the GEAR lights, for hose you need the Aerosoft AFC_Bridge configurator.We have been made aware of a video by the YouTuber SimHanger, which details the full config process. That’s a good point. It’s supposed to work out of the box and I think it does that very well to some extent (better than I would have hoped anyway), but unfortunately as you go deeper there seem to be issues here and there.

I hope I can find the right words for this, it looks like that the top layer of the base unit – same as with the Alpha Flight Controls – is covered with a rubber coating which gives a kind of anti-slip look. Perhaps it’s not rubber, but to me it looks gorgeous. Also applicable for the Alpha unit and the same for the Bravo unit, the model or size of the throttle quadrant feels OK as well as the durable switches and knobs. The Bravo Throttle Quadrant – Part III

This works really well for interacting with the Bravo's lights. Unfortunately, if this is running, various other programs like A Pilot's Life and Pilot2ATC can't connect with the sim. Oddly, some other programs like Navigraph Charts will still connect. Hopefully this can be fixed, because other than that it's a lot better than the default Honeycomb bridge. When you’ve connected the Bravo Throttle Quadrant to an USB receptacle, you won’t see any LED lights in the front as we know from the Alpha Flight Controls. The only integrated lights I’ve seen are those from the landing gear, the annunciator light unit and the AP related buttons. Although I haven’t seen the throttle quadrant itself yet, the two boxes with different levers in it means that you can transform the throttle quadrant for any General Aviation aircraft or for “officially” Boeing look like commercial aircraft. I write on purpose “Boeing” look alike since the throttle levers, FLAP lever handle and speed brake lever are typical for Boeing aircraft, but don’t be disappointed when you’re an Airbus virtual pilot. The Honeycomb Aeronautical team is working on that and can be bought as an add-on for your Bravo Throttle Quadrant to give it an Airbus look like.

Yes thank you for taking the time to confirm this. From my research and attempts to map it, it does not seem possible direct from the Bravo to MSFS 2020 without a third party tool which I want to avoid. The encoders are simply dual push buttons that need to be assigned to functions like any other button. Microsoft Flight Simulator worked straight out of the box and there was no need to install any drivers as they are part of the simulator. Many of the controller assignments in MFS were automatically loaded, so it appears there are already some aircraft profiles in place. It is still early days but according to Honeycomb, more aircraft profiles will be made available moving forward. It is still of course possible to create your own custom profiles within the simulator.

And as mentioned earlier in a post, if I import the file or I copy one and rename it in the file structure it works. If I create within the configurator from another setting and rename it, all bindings are gone. Transair Flight Equipment, Hangar 9, Faraday Business Park, Solent Airport, Spitfire Way, Lee-on-the-Solent, HampshirePO13 9GA As others have said here, this is a no-brainer. If you have the Bravo Throttle, you really need this. I've had my throttle for a day and I've already made several changes to the annunciator panel. Seriously, if you read the instructions and can understand boolean logic, you can do it. In the configurator I went to Profiles --> Import Profiles and I imported the profiles I needed from the honeycomb_profilesfolder inside the XP11 AFCBridgefolder Suppose you turn the selector knob on the left-hand side to VS (Vertical Speed) you can increase/decrease the VS value with the right-hand knob and of course, the X-Plane aircraft will correspond in accordance what you select. And last but not least, there’s an AP button on the far right to engage/disengage the AP.