Jacques wrote:Styggron, It's not the control lock, its the parking brake! I haven't tried the emergency brake, Paul. I could take it out for a test to see, I guess.
I still do not have this problem, however. I know it is maddening, but if you have your hardware throttle anywhere but full back you can press F2 and F3 all day and the throttles will never move over the ramp. And unless you press and "hold" F2 and F3, the levers will not move far enough to travel over and back across the ramp.
If, for some reason you can't get the throttles back into the normal range, make sure the throttle is full back, let the Strat stop, pull the parking brake and release it, then move your throttles forward.
Hello Jacques
I know it is the brake but the first time I tried the parking brake did nothing but the
control lock *did*. When I used the control lock it made the throttle stutter. This time though, it was jammed and not clickable. I tried the brake still to no avail.
Respectfully, people keep repeating to press and hold F2 and F3, and use F1, and to have the hardware throttle full back,
we have done this. I need to make this perfectly clear.
It does not work for myself and from his posts, does not seem to work for Piper.
Only thing I did not try is turning the engines off.
I'm not going to try another 3 hour flight because if it happens I will really get upset. I'll jump in now and run some more tests. I'll slew to a landing point, do a landing and see if I can make it happen again but this time as you say "let the strat stop" and by that I gather you mean the engines, ie by moving the red levers to minimum.
Thank you for weighing in to try to help, it is indeed a MOST frustrating issue.
I have contacted A2A as I would feel much more confident if they would weigh in on this thread. What scared me is another person on this thread saying it is a well documented issue (or words to that effect) and thus I am surprised it is still there. Yes bugs are hard and if you can't replicate the issue even harder but the facts remain, this reverses is still an issue for some and it is really marring our enjoyment of this excellent product.