How to Freeze the Axes on Flight Stick Throttle so They Can Be Mapped in Game Settings

[Noah_24]

So I have a thrustmaster 16000m FCS HOTAS and whenever I try to map anything to the throttle, the throttle will auto-map it's sliding axis because the computer thinks that because the throttle isn't in dead center, that I am purposefully giving input on that axis. Is there some sort of way that I can freeze the axis of the throttle because it is impossible to find dead center, and every time I try to map one of the buttons it maps the sliding axis instead?

 

[cryoburner]

Perhaps try recalibrating the throttle, and leaving it in the calibrated zero position while assigning the other controls. That stick apparently has its own programming software, so you might also check if there's some option for dead-zone adjustment in there, or to set the throttle to only the positive axis, so that it's at zero when pulled all the way back.