Motorized Throttle needs N1 signal from MCP at TOGA

[hermann2441]

Hello from Austria,
I hope you can help me at a small issue with my Motorized Throttle:

- FS2020
- B737 PMDG
- Autopilot V2 OpenCockpit

When i press the TOGA-Button the levermotors should start with the N1-LED from MCP.
But this LED does not lit!
It only comes, when I switch on the AP1 and/or AP2. But for take-off i miss it and so the levers can not run to takeoff position.
Can you change the Code please, that N1-LED on MCP comes together with the AT-Switch when I press TOGA and w/o waiting for AP-Switch?

In Addition I can tell, that with B777 everything is ok, because when pressing the TOGA-switch the SPEED-LED on the MPC lits. And it is for the leverstart equal if N1 or SPEED comes.

PS: The N1-sign in PFD lits, while N1-LED in MCP does not. I think that both should lit together.

Dear Roar, i hope you can help me in this case and I Look forward for your replay.

[hermann2441]

I am in contact with PMDG and they told me, that it's no issue, that the N1-LED does not lit.

He wrote:

There is a world of difference between the 777 SPD function and the 737 N1. One is MCP SPD the other is FMC Thrust.

Sorry, old mind has a slow response: Boeing philosophy is that you tell the airplane what you want and the airplane uses the FMA to tell you what you are getting. If you have an indicator of N1 mode then it should be bound to the FMA thrust mode such that it illuminates when N1 is the active thrust mode. An illuminated switch on the MCP means that you can toggle that function OFF (Note the APP mode switch is not illuminated in approach mode, you cannot toggle approach OFF