All,

    First of all let me introduce myself my name is chris and i am new to these forums. I have a question i am running fs2004 on a amd althon 64 fx-53, geforce fx 5900 256mb agp card and everything runs smooth except i have never not even once been able to use reverse thrust, i have downloaded several planes that are capable of using reverse thrust i was just owndering if anyone else has had this promblem or if they know how to fix it

thanks,

     Chris

thanks anyway

I fugured it out it was my keyboard i had recently bought a web keyboard with like a million keys and it uses the f-keys for differnt functions so i had to re-mapp those thanks for the help though

ok thanks it worked for a couple minutes now it isn't working anymore so i don't know what is up

ok i figured it all out there is a button on my keyboard that turns on my f-keys and turns off my office keys which are the sam keys just the can be either so now it works

Welcome to the board.  

I'd suggest a simple 101 button board. Those fancy internet keyboards are often more trouble than they are worth. There isn't much you can do with them that you can't do with a simple keboard. It's just a tiny bit more effort but not enough to kill you. Also many of the fancy keyboards run a driver on your system that eats system resources and tends to be unstable causing problems and conflicts with other programs.

Or even better yet get a good joystick that allows you to map functions like reverse thrust to a joystick button. If you can afford it that's the best way to go. I've never regretted getting a Saitek X-45. I have my reverse thrust mapped to a button on the throttle.