AKC130FltEng

I've done word searches on different drives and gone to any location I could possible think the FSUIPC6.ini file would be located. But I have yet to find it. I've uninstalled FSUIPC5 and installed v6 a few times now and still I have yet to find this file. Its being created though. Profiles are being saved but I want to import my v5 profiles over. Any help? I'm running both P3Dv4 and v5. Will note, per page 6 of the manual 'Note that, as of FSUIPC6, the FSUIPC documentation is now installed in a subfolder of your windows Documents folder, called FSUIPC6.' The .ini file is not located here on my installation. The only file in that folder is 'add-on.xml' Further Edit: It seems that my .ini file for P3Dv5 is located in my Modules folder for P3Dv4 not in the above mentioned folder. Reviewing the Text string in the 'add-on.xml' It points to that directory. I'm just going to go out and say it. But this is a bad bad idea. In about 4 or 5 months when everyone moves on from P3Dv4 and uninstalls it this folder will no longer exist. I like how you have the default FSUIPC folder located in Documents now but to redirect to P3Dv4 isn't the way I would have gone in this respect. Just my input as it doesn't actually match what the manual says. This is for anyone else whose been scratching their heads tracking it down as well.

Yes you can do it that way. Make sure you follow the steps precisely and make sure you have the latest one. 1.3 or something. I honestly stopped using my Saitek throttle quads earlier today. And I stopped using the reverser buttons on them years ago as I found them just to sloppy and always triggering just from taxiing. So what I did was setup one button on my joystick to enable that plugin and then ran the throttles up. If you wish todo it that way it is not described in the readme but its easy todo. Select the button you want to use in the Button assignment table. Select for FS Action. Scroll down to LuaToggle ThrottleManager. Make sure you select the Toggle one. There are like 9-10 options. Set it to parameter 1 click okay and exit FlightSim. Open up FSUIPC.ini and find the entry that looks like this. 54=PA,8,CL3:T,1 -{LuaToggle ThrottleManager}- the ,1 at the end is the parameter. Copy paste that line 2 more times and change the parameter to 2 and then 3. The parameter assigns the engine. Should look something like this when your done. 54=PA,8,CL3:T,1 -{LuaToggle ThrottleManager}- 55=PA,8,CL3:T,2 -{LuaToggle ThrottleManager}- 56=PA,8,CL3:T,3 -{LuaToggle ThrottleManager}- Open fs. Press that button you should hear a ding. If you don't something isn't setup right. All done. I have it setup on my 777, ifly 747, pmdg 747, md-11 and works fine on all of them and more convienent than a seperate axis for the reverser. Now you should be able to setup a spoiler axis and a flap axis on your quadrants. since you freed up 3 axis assignments.

Give it a shot like that see what happens. I still suggest trying the Throttle Manager Lua though. It will allow you to just turn your throttle axis into the reverser axis by a press of a button.

Change the calibration also. You want a deadzone from the max and minimum setting to get away from those jitters also. The manual describes how to calibrate everything. The most I can tell you is move the throttle axis just a bit out of the detent Set the minimum. Advance it all the way then pull the throttle back just a bit and set the maximum. Now you will reach the minimum and maximum throttle setting before you get to the stops and should take care of the rest. the MD-11 does have a something inbuilt to prevent you from going full reverse to soon after touchdown. So that might be something also yes. The nose wheel on the MD-11 is supposed to be on the ground before applying reverse thrust.

After you did my suggestion whats your calibration and delta look like? You can look into the Throttle Manager plugin. I tried it out a few days ago and its awesome minus its incompatibility with the new PMDG 747.

I'm not going to claim to be an expert. But I have the Saitek setup and its constantly jittery like that. Increase the Delta size on the Axis Assignment page. I used 420 seems to mellow out the jittery inputs ALOT. Also make sure you have a decent dead zone for the rerverser. No need for it to be hyper sensitive to go into reverse so even a knob width of a dead zone will make sure Rev is triggered while your taxing around. Todo the delta its easier to do it in the ini file to get an exact number or Scan the axis you want then press the Delta button move the axis very slightly then press delta again. Keep doing that until you get the result you want.

I haven't tried this on any other airframe. But I got it to work on the PMDG QOTSII. That being said. When I got to reverse and I increase the throttle to its Max position the aircraft lunges backwards from a dead stop to about 120GS in about 10 seconds or less. I noticed however in the aircraft modeling itself that the lever reaches its maximum reverse position and I'm still able to add more fuel to the fire after this. I would think that 100% of the physical throttle movement would equal to the maximum reverse region programmed into the simulated model if that makes any sense. [Update] Tried it out on the 777 and didn't have any uncontrollable issues. Guess next up is to just try a normal reverser assignment on the 747 and see if it does it there also. https://youtu.be/-zqmcJ_cRmM

Thanks for the fast reply Pete! I honestly didn't even know about the User Contribution section. Guess I wasn't paying much attention. But if this is what you are referring to this is exactly what I'm wanting to do. Will look into it. As regarding to my statement about how we fly an actual aircraft I'm not referring to the door position. I'm referring to Engine Spool (N1/EPR). Reverse is most effective at higher speeds. So after landing we get into reverse and around 80kts we feed the reverse levers up to the Reverse Idle position. This is just past the lever interlock. Once the N1/EPR come to idle we stow the reverse levers. Right now if you use the Throttle Cut/F1 command and you were rocking max reverse the sim acts just like the aircraft would. The reverser stows and the engine is still Spooled up from reverse thus providing forward thrust until the engine settles in at Idle. So what I wanted to be able todo was reduce the amount of reverse thrust before I go back to idle. I hope that makes sense. Its so much easier to demonstrate than to explain. Brian

I can't seem to find any documentation to support this feature so just in case I'm missing something I figured I'd ask. Is there anyway possible to have a key/button press that will switch an axis assignment? What I have is a the Saitek Throttle System. What I would want to do is once I reach idle hit a button and switch the assignment to a reverse thrust. This would imitate pulling the thrust reverse levers up as in the aircraft the levers are locked in place when reverse is pulled so there is no need for the thrust lever at that particular time. I've tried assigning a different axis on a joystick and did not like the result. I currently just have a button press holding F2 and when released presses F1. But that's not realistic either as the engines are spooled up, dropping out of reverse that fast will have a negative impact on braking performance. When we land a aircraft and rip it in reverse we gradually come out of reverse. In fact we go to Reverse Idle til about 60kts then we go to Idle thrust. Is this a possible function to setup or am I just hoping for to much?