solvingdm

Well Pete, it seems that I could have mistaken this turbulence (that you suggested) as joystick chatter. Probably because I've never been a real pilot, I assumed that turbulence could not affect my plane to such a degree, but come to think of it, I was flying those light cessna props. MY WRONG, Pete! So, after deactivating the turbulence I realised my mistake. :roll: This problem, well, actually my ignorance, has been bugging me for ages, and its amazing that originally, I suspected turbulance, but foolishly rejected the posibillity that it could have such a severe affect on an aircraft! :oops: So, thanks very much Pete, and since you asked, joystick chatter, to my understanding is where, if you leave the plane in straight & level flight, all trimmed, and not touching the yoke/joystick that the plane can spurodically roll or pitch without one actually even touching his/her controls. I think these symptoms are also reffered to as "input spikes" or something like that. I had read about this on the Flight sim.com website, which, along with those 'flattening batteries' & 'non-sync. clocks' led me to your website. So, thanks again! :D

Hi there, I have recently purchased a registration key to access all the features of FSUIPC, mainly to correct the joystick chatter problem. My joystick chatter problem only seems to usually occur under 4,000 ft when global weather is downloaded from jeppessen. But not only do I get abrupt directional changes, but all my dials in the cockpit are madly swinging around all over the place. :? After setting the options for eliminating joystick and axis spikes under the miscellaneous menu (of the FSUIPC Module), I still experience these most annoying problems. I tried to calibrate the joystick with the FSUIPC module (after I had, with the default FS 2002 calibration screen) increasing my "dead" zones, and still, the problem was not solved. For information, I am using FS 2002 with a Logitech ATK 3 joystic. Please note: that when I clear the weather, this seems to be the only thing that stops the problem, but as soon as I download it again, the problem comes back. Now, as I understand it, FSUIPC is designed to enable outside programs to communicate with FS 2002. I presume the jeppessen downlode site is considered an external program that controls the weather features in FS 2002. Now, I do not know much about axis (all those big + & - numbers) but I do know about the threshold dead zones and stuff! Please, is there anyone out there who has had and/or has dealt with this problem, who can give me some advice or a solution to solve this most irritating problem!