Nick Cooper wrote on May 24^th, 2013 at 10:35am:

However, I found that if I use the F2 key to apply the reverse thrust but use just a very small amount of throttle to cancel it, reverse thrust is cancelled but the engines do not stop. I don't have any fancy hardware, just a keyboard and a venerable Microsoft Sidewinder precision pro that has seen better days.

Me too on all counts.
Except that I have an MS Sidewinder FF2 that has seen better days, but still works quite well. ;D