radialben

Hi Paul, I don't think it's necessary to do all that extra work just for the sake of authenticity. The system works fine as you've designed it and, as you say, power settings on individual engines can be controlled once reverse pitch is selected so I'm happy. Thanks for taking the time to help me out, it's much appreciated. If I can make it all work maybe I'll build you a quadrant as payment :D thanks again Ben

Hi Paul, sorry, I suppose my question was a bit ambiguous. What I meant was is it possible to set it up so that you can select reverse pitch on each engine individually? I would guess that Lockheed didn't go so far as to give flight crews the ability to adjust pitch settings in reverse but my understanding of the setup they used was there was a master lever that governed pitch (and thus engine rpm) during normal flight with four toggle switches to allow individual tweaking of each prop to ensure correct synch (to avoid the dreaded wah-wahs!) but the pilot selected reverse pitch using the secondary levers mounted on the throttles. If this is correct then that is what I would like to emulate, if possible. cheers Ben

Hi Paul, thanks for your reply, always good to meet another piston fan :D I've set up the macro as you suggested (thanks for the clear instructions. I'm computer illiterate so you need to use words of one syllable or less with me) and it works just as you described, although I've discovered that my axis callibration was out on my throttles so closing them to idle wasn't cancelling the reverse pitch selection. Recallibrated and away we go, perfect. One question: is it possible to modify the macro so that you can control pitch on each engine individually? Thanks for your help cheers Ben

Hi Pete, can you tell me if there's any way to set up FSUIPC4 (for FSX) so that you can select reverse pitch using a button push/switch? The reason I ask is I'm fooling about with a home-built throttle quadrant for four-engined propliners, specifically the Lockheed Constellation. Using FSUIPC and my quadrant I can do everything I'd like to do except the reverse pitch:(. I know you can designate a sector of an axis as reverse thrust or even a completely separate axis as such but I can't get either to work with the Connie, although I'm not particularly concerned about that as I would prefer to use a button etc. I don't know if you are aware, but Lockheed used a secondary lever on each throttle to activate reverse pitch when needed. I've been playing around with a flight model of an L 1049H which uses a simicon on the panel to do the same thing. This works fine in the sim but I thought it would be cool to mimic the Lockheed setup using a microswitch somehow. The odd thing about it is I'm not sure how they're getting the simicon to do it's thing because there's no designated keystroke in the FS control setup menu specifically for reverse pitch and I'm not savvy enough to know where to look next. Anyway, if you have any tips or suggestions I'd be keen to hear them. cheers Ben P.S. thank you SO much for creating FSUIPC; quite possibly the best bit of software ever written!