mldavis2

I think that is an excellent idea. I much prefer using FSUIPC for setting calibrations. I'll give it a try. Thanks again, Pete, for your advice and effort!

One quick follow-up here, Pete, in case anyone else is fighting an illogical controller problem. After "fixing" the problem by deleting the FSUIPC.INI file and letting FSX rebuild it, I encountered exactly the same problem again on the very next flight. I tried deleting it again but no luck. I deleted the FSX.CFG file and let that rebuild, no luck. Finally after surfing the net I ran across a situation in which there was an axis conflict between a CH Pro Throttle and the CH Eclipse yoke. So I went back into FSX and looked at axis assignments. What I found was that, for some reason, the X-axis for ailerons had been assigned to the X-axis of the CH Pro throttle, of which there is none, of course, the throttle being a Z-axis. So by deleting the axis conflict in the Pro Throttle, I was able to regain control of the x-axis ailerons with the yoke. The real question now is why did those assignments appear for the Pro Throttle, and why was it able to assign functions to a non-existent axis? I have no idea, but now I sure know what to look for !!!

Sorry for the late reply, Pete, but the forum was down for several hours when I tried to log on. You are, of course, right. I deleted the FSUIPC.INI file and eliminated the problem. Two questions remain of only passing interest since the main goal was getting FSX back flying. First, I do not recall going into FSUIPC any time recently and resetting anything, so why the sudden problem of lost aileron control. Second, why did it occur AFTER I had a successful take-off under manual control, the autopilot handled turn banks correctly enroute, and the ailerons only seemed to fail when the autopilot was disengaged on approach. I think it was these irrational factors that caused so much confusion, even to the point of disassembly of my yoke. No matter. I did learn a few things, and I will go back and read the manual. I was not aware that you could simply delete the .INI file and it would be rebuilt. Anyway, no response needed. Your product support is greatly appreciated and I thank you for your time. I hope more simmers will be encouraged to register FSUIPC rather than using the free version. Thanks for a great product!!

Thanks, Pete. Recognize that those calibrations are the accumulation of YEARS of flying with FSX, they weren't all performed recently. The use of filtering also dates way back with a previous CH Yoke LE that was getting old that has since been replaced. Note that there are no dates on those calibrations logs. I'll go back and delete the FSUIPC.INI file and report back. Just completed a flight in X-Plane 10 with no problems, by the way, with the CH Eclipse Yoke. Thanks for your patience. I have no idea why I haven't been having any problem for years ... ??

Thanks, Pete. I'm not blaming FSUIPC, just trying to make sense of this sudden failure. FYI, I opened X-Plane 10 and my ailerons (X-axis) works fine in that program, so it's not a controller hardware or connection issue I don't think. I hope I'm doing this correctly from what you asked above: For the record, I'm running Win7 64 on a stable Q9450 Intel chip, 8GB RAM and an nVidia 570 card with 1280MB RAM. I'm using Active Sky 2012 for weather which is a couple of weeks old. The nVidia 570 card is a week old, a replacement for an older nVidia 9800GTX+, but has been used during that time. The ailerons were being "controlled" during turns when the autopilot was ON during the flight in which they failed sometime after disconnection of the autopilot. What puzzles me is that I have been flying this setup for several days with no changes. It was sometime after I disabled the autopilot on the last approach that my aileron controls were gone. There was no ILS on the approach airport, just a manual landing. Other default aircraft have been checked since then and shown to have no aileron control, so it's a universal FSX issue. I installed FSUIPC 4.758 (although I had to use the .exe installer because I didn't find the single FSUIPC file). I am not using WIDEFS7. I turned controllers off (checkbox) in FSX, then went to FSUIPC, turned axis logging on, ran yoke through axis ranges. Here are the .INI and .LOG files. I hope you can shed some light on this and offer some suggestions. I'm at my wits end - and flying X-Plane until I get it sorted out ... ********* FSUIPC4, Version 4.758 by Pete Dowson ********* User Name="Mike Davis" User Addr="mldavis2@sbcglobal.net" FSUIPC4 Key is provided WIDEFS7 not user registered, or expired Running inside FSX on Windows 7 Module base=61000000 359 System time = 16/01/2012 08:03:20 359 FLT path = "C:\Users\Mike\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\" 405 Trying to connect to SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 ... 421 FS path = "C:\Flight Simulator X\" 1154 LogOptions=00000000 00000001 1170 Wind smoothing fix is fully installed 1170 G3D.DLL fix attempt installed ok 1170 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay 1170 Trying to use SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 4165 Running in "Microsoft Flight Simulator X", Version: 10.0.61472.0 (SimConnect: 10.0.61259.0) 4165 Initialising SimConnect data requests now 4165 FSUIPC Menu entry added 4259 C:\Users\Mike\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\NextFlightSet.FLT 4259 C:\Users\Mike\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\FIMP-FMNV.PLN 4259 C:\Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\Lear45\Lear45.AIR 4259 C:\Users\Mike\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\FIMP-FMNV.PLN 109559 System time = 16/01/2012 08:05:09, Simulator time = 08:03:24 (05:03Z) 109824 Aircraft="Learjet 45 Limited Edition" 110480 Starting everything now ... 111572 Advanced Weather Interface Enabled 245577 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 60 secs = 59.0 fps 582352 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 230 secs = 23.4 fps 922746 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 306 secs = 59.1 fps 1022462 LogOptions changed, now 10000000 00000001 1043787 Sim stopped: average frame rate for last 21 secs = 44.3 fps 1147855 LogOptions changed, now 00000000 00000001 [General] History=5V3QU4P5EXSY7634MMF0T MouseWheelTrim=No MouseWheelTrimSpeed=1 FixControlAccel=No FixMachSpeedBug=No VisibilityOptions=No OneCloudLayer=No CloudTurbulence=No CloudIcing=No GenerateCirrus=No SuppressCloudTurbulence=No MaxIce=-4 MinIce=-4 UpperWindGusts=No SuppressWindTurbulence=No SuppressWindVariance=No WindTurbulence=No TurbulenceRate=1.0,5.0 TurbulenceDivisor=20,20,40,40 SuppressAllGusts=No MaxSurfaceWind=0 WindLimitLevel=200 WindDiscardLevel=400 WindAjustAltitude=No WindAjustAltitudeBy=2000 WindSmoothing=Yes WindSmoothness=2 WindSmoothAirborneOnly=Yes PressureSmoothness=0 TemperatureSmoothness=0 DisconnTrimForAP=No ZeroElevForAPAlt=No ThrottleSyncAll=No WhiteMessages=No ShowPMcontrols=No SpoilerIncrement=512 MagicBattery=No RudderSpikeRemoval=No ElevatorSpikeRemoval=No AileronSpikeRemoval=No ReversedElevatorTrim=No ClockSync=No ClockSyncMins=5 ClearWeatherDynamics=No OwnWeatherChanges=No TimeForSelect=4 LoadFlightMenu=No LoadPlanMenu=No PauseAfterCrash=No ZapSound=firework ShortAircraftNameOk=No TCASid=Flight TCASrange=40 AxisCalibration=No DirectAxesToCalibs=No ShowMultilineWindow=Yes SuppressSingleline=Yes SuppressMultilineFS=No AxisIntercepts=No WeatherReadFactor=2 WeatherRewriteSeconds=1 SimConnectStallTime=1 CustomWeatherModify=No Console=No UpdatedByVersion=4758 SaveDataWithFlights=No UseProfiles=No SmoothBySimTime=No JoystickTimeout=20 PollGFTQ6=Yes BlankDisplays=No DeleteVehiclesForAES=Yes BrakeReleaseThreshold=75 EnableMouseLook=No AxesWrongRange=No DontResetAxes=No InitDelay=0 GetNearestAirports=Yes LuaRerunDelay=66 FSVersionUsed="Microsoft Flight Simulator X",10.0.61472.0 SimConnectUsed=10.0.61259.0 [AutoSave] AutoSaveEnabled=Yes Interval=300 Files=5 SaveOnGround=No AlsoSave=Save AlsoInterval=60 Next=2 1=Sun 213152 2=Sun 210655 3=Sun 211154 4=Sun 211654 5=Sun 212153 [GPSout] GPSoutEnabled=No Port=COM0 Speed=4800 Interval=2000 PosTo6Decimal=No Sentences= [WideServer] WideFSenabled=Yes [JoystickCalibration] ExcludeThrottleSet=Yes ExcludeMixtureSet=Yes ExcludePropPitchSet=Yes SepRevsJetsOnly=No ApplyHeloTrim=No FlapsSetControl=0 FlapDetents=No ReverserControl=66292 Reverser1Control=66422 Reverser2Control=66425 Reverser3Control=66428 Reverser4Control=66431 MaxThrottleForReverser=256 AileronTrimControl=66731 RudderTrimControl=66732 CowlFlaps1Control=66162 CowlFlaps2Control=66163 CowlFlaps3Control=66164 CowlFlaps4Control=66165 SteeringTillerControl=0 MaxSteerSpeed=60 LeftBrake=829,16380/16 RightBrake=-397,16380/16 Flaps=0,16380/16 Rudder=-16380,0,0,16380 Mixture=-7770,6859 Throttle=-13316,16380 AllowSuppressForPFCquad=Yes UseAxisControlsForNRZ=No [JoystickCalibration.Maule M7 260C paint1] ExcludeThrottleSet=Yes ExcludeMixtureSet=Yes ExcludePropPitchSet=Yes SepRevsJetsOnly=No ApplyHeloTrim=No FlapsSetControl=0 FlapDetents=No ReverserControl=66292 Reverser1Control=66422 Reverser2Control=66425 Reverser3Control=66428 Reverser4Control=66431 MaxThrottleForReverser=256 AileronTrimControl=66731 RudderTrimControl=66732 CowlFlaps1Control=66162 CowlFlaps2Control=66163 CowlFlaps3Control=66164 CowlFlaps4Control=66165 SteeringTillerControl=0 MaxSteerSpeed=60 Rudder=-16383,0,512,16383/8 SlopeRudder=9 Mixture=-7770,6859 LeftBrake=-16380,16380/16 RightBrake=-16380,16380/24 Flaps=0,16380/16 [JoystickCalibration.Cessna Skyhawk 172SP Paint1] ExcludeThrottleSet=Yes ExcludeMixtureSet=Yes ExcludePropPitchSet=Yes SepRevsJetsOnly=No ApplyHeloTrim=No FlapsSetControl=0 FlapDetents=No ReverserControl=66292 Reverser1Control=66422 Reverser2Control=66425 Reverser3Control=66428 Reverser4Control=66431 MaxThrottleForReverser=256 AileronTrimControl=66731 RudderTrimControl=66732 CowlFlaps1Control=66162 CowlFlaps2Control=66163 CowlFlaps3Control=66164 CowlFlaps4Control=66165 SteeringTillerControl=0 MaxSteerSpeed=60 Rudder=-16380,0,0,16380 SlopeRudder=1 Mixture=-7770,6859 LeftBrake=3104,8249/16 RightBrake=-482,16380/16 Flaps=0,16380/16 Aileron=-16375,80,80,16383/8 Elevator=-16380,-203,-203,16380/8 [JoystickCalibration.Airbus A321 Paint2] ExcludeThrottleSet=Yes ExcludeMixtureSet=Yes ExcludePropPitchSet=Yes SepRevsJetsOnly=No ApplyHeloTrim=No FlapsSetControl=0 FlapDetents=No ReverserControl=66292 Reverser1Control=66422 Reverser2Control=66425 Reverser3Control=66428 Reverser4Control=66431 MaxThrottleForReverser=256 AileronTrimControl=66731 RudderTrimControl=66732 CowlFlaps1Control=66162 CowlFlaps2Control=66163 CowlFlaps3Control=66164 CowlFlaps4Control=66165 SteeringTillerControl=0 MaxSteerSpeed=60 Rudder=-16380,0,0,16380 SlopeRudder=-5 Mixture=-7770,6859 LeftBrake=-687,16380/16 RightBrake=-397,16380/16 Flaps=0,16380/16 Elevator=-16380,-512,512,16380/16 Aileron=-16380,-512,512,16380/16 [JoystickCalibration.Beech King Air 350 Paint1] ExcludeThrottleSet=Yes ExcludeMixtureSet=Yes ExcludePropPitchSet=Yes SepRevsJetsOnly=No ApplyHeloTrim=No FlapsSetControl=0 FlapDetents=No ReverserControl=66292 Reverser1Control=66422 Reverser2Control=66425 Reverser3Control=66428 Reverser4Control=66431 MaxThrottleForReverser=256 AileronTrimControl=66731 RudderTrimControl=66732 CowlFlaps1Control=66162 CowlFlaps2Control=66163 CowlFlaps3Control=66164 CowlFlaps4Control=66165 SteeringTillerControl=0 MaxSteerSpeed=60 Aileron=-16375,80,80,16383 Rudder=-16380,0,0,16380 SlopeRudder=-5 Mixture=-7770,6859 LeftBrake=-687,16380/16 RightBrake=-397,16380/16 Flaps=0,16380/16 Elevator=-16380,-203,-203,16380 [MacroFiles] 1=747 OHD 2=APchart [JoystickCalibration.Mooney Bravo] ExcludeThrottleSet=Yes ExcludeMixtureSet=Yes ExcludePropPitchSet=Yes SepRevsJetsOnly=No ApplyHeloTrim=No FlapsSetControl=0 FlapDetents=No ReverserControl=66292 Reverser1Control=66422 Reverser2Control=66425 Reverser3Control=66428 Reverser4Control=66431 MaxThrottleForReverser=256 AileronTrimControl=66731 RudderTrimControl=66732 CowlFlaps1Control=66162 CowlFlaps2Control=66163 CowlFlaps3Control=66164 CowlFlaps4Control=66165 SteeringTillerControl=0 MaxSteerSpeed=60 Rudder=-16380,0,0,16380 Throttle=-13316,16380 Mixture=-7770,6859 LeftBrake=-2362,16380/16 SlopeLeftBrake=2 RightBrake=-779,16380/16 Flaps=0,16380/16 [JoyNames] AutoAssignLetters=No 0=CH Pro Pedals USB 0.GUID={EA85F7F0-CB64-11DE-8005-444553540000} 1=CH Pro Throttle USB 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ExcludePropPitchSet=Yes SepRevsJetsOnly=No ApplyHeloTrim=No FlapsSetControl=0 FlapDetents=No ReverserControl=66292 Reverser1Control=66422 Reverser2Control=66425 Reverser3Control=66428 Reverser4Control=66431 MaxThrottleForReverser=256 AileronTrimControl=66731 RudderTrimControl=66732 CowlFlaps1Control=66162 CowlFlaps2Control=66163 CowlFlaps3Control=66164 CowlFlaps4Control=66165 SteeringTillerControl=0 MaxSteerSpeed=60 Rudder=-16380,0,0,16380 Throttle=-13316,16380 Mixture=-7770,6859 LeftBrake=829,16380/16 RightBrake=-397,16380/16 Flaps=0,16380/16 [sounds] Path=C:\Flight Simulator X\Sound\ Device1=Primary Sound Driver Device2=Speakers (SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio) Device3=SPDIF Interface (SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio) [Window.Radar Contact] Docked=67, 714, 3537, 1549 [Monitor] Display=1

I'm having a similar issue that may be related to FSUIPC and FSX. I'm running SP2 but not Acceleration. It has been a stable platform for well over a year. I have a registered copy of FSUIPC 4.751 and I'm using CH Pro Throttle, CH Pro Pedals and a CH Eclipse yoke all running from a powered USB hub. I was flying a default Lear 45 and turned the autopilot off on an approach. My ailerons would not work. I restarted FSX and reset the approach without the autopilot on with the same results. Thinking my yoke was going bad, I removed it and replaced it with a spare CH Yoke LE I had that I know works. Same result. I then loaded X-Plane and had full aileron control. Back to FSX and into FSUIPC. In the Axis Assignment tab I can see the full range of the potentiometer =/- 16,000 for "joystick #1 X-axis". When I go to the Axis Calibration the aileron (X-axis) value is stuck around 400 and does not deflect with the yoke handle. I rebooted the computer with the same result. I then plugged the CH Yoke LE directly into the USB port on the back of the mobo with the same results. Is FSUIPC blocking this potentiometer signal for some strange reason? And if so, why now after a year and no changes other than installing the new version 4.751 a week or so ago? Why does FSUIPC show full axis range in assignment but not in calibration?