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Try removing or uninstalling thst CH control manager. This result can be nothing to do with FSUIPC. I suspect the control manager just gets in the way.
You should certainly be able to move the rudder without also pressing the toe brakes. Put you feet lower down / further towards you, not near the back.
In the axis assignment tab you can tell it to ignore an axis temporarily if it in always being seen first.
It sounds like, when you get to calibrate the toe brakes, you'll need to set quite a large dead zone, with no brake operation, in order to avoid braking unintentionally!
What does it show on the axis assignment? Are you selecting "RAW" for some odd reason? If the axis is properly calibrated in Windows before using FSUIPC it should have the usual non-raw range of something below -16000 to something above +16000. But thr raw axis value from amnay devices is, indeed, 0 to 255.
Pete
Using my throttle quadrant without the Ch control manager is not possible. Calibrating it from inside FSX leads to result that does not work and consider the two first levers as some kind of yoke where I'm asked to place the controller in a midddle position. It was first after using it I could make the quadrant work in the first place.
On axis assignment a box called raw is checked. This box is also grayed out.
If I want to delete all profile specific configuration what is the right way to do it ?
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That could be your main problem. I don't know it, but many folks have said that it isn't compatible with any sort of direct assignment in FSUIPC. Try without it.
That's just a case of simple axis reversal. Please see the options you have in calibration.
All axes are available in FSUIPC for assignment, you are simply not recognising which are which. Use FSUIPC's logging facilities to see which ones you need to assign to for your specific aircraft. I can't help you with that aircraft. I don't have all aircraft and there are too many variations. Certainly there's a steering axis assignable in FSX controls (new to FSX, it didn't exist in FS9). The FSUIPC direct tiller axis uses the rudder axis internally.
I'm not trying to persuade you to use FSUIPC for assignments. It sounds like you really don't want to, in which case please don't.
Pete
I do want to use my controllers in the most possible realistic way. This means different use of the levers depending on airplane type. For example four engines planes like the B377 one lever for each engine. In twin engine as the default setup for the quadrant. I don't see how I could do that without FSUIPC profile specific assignment. My problem is to make it work as intended.
I disabled everything in the A2A configure utility. My problem right now
I have no clue as to why the lever assigned to mixture behaves like button that changes the value from 0 to 16384. EDIT have also noticed that this lever behaves in the same way in both P3D 2.4 and FSX-SE. And in those sims I use the sims own control assignment. But the lever seems normal in CH control manager program.
I have problem setting up assignment for my rudder pedals but I think I understand why here. When assigning those axes it's hard to have the correct axis identified. For example when moving the rudder pedals the brakes are detected instead. Also one thing that seem strange for me as that in the calibration menu I see the value change from 1 to 255 when moving the rudder pedals.
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All this sounds like the usual problem of an axis being configured in the Registry or in Windows game controllers as a digital not an analog axis. You need to sort that out first. Go to game controllers, or whatever CH control program you might otherwise be using, and get it working properly there first.
Assuming there's no cross-talk in the device the most usual reason for such behaviour is that you have assignments in FS still whilst trying to assign in FSUIPC. You MUST disable controllers completely in FS if you want to assign in FSUIPC.
No, best always to disable controllers completely, else FS will automatically reassign.
You cannot possibly have any assignments in FS if you want to assign in FSUIPC. There is not way FSUIPC can disable FS control just because you load a different aircraft. It can only control assignments made in its own system.
But you don't need to create profiles for all the rest. If mostly you want the same assignments make them for one of the other aircraft without selecting Profile Specific. They will then be the general assignments, applicable to all non-profiled aircraft.
Pete
I use CH control manager and there are no way to configure an axis as digital or analogue. The levers are analog and can be calibrated. But reaching the detents is registered as pressing a button.
I have disabled controllers by unchecking that box in the windows menue.
Still the mixture levers behaves as before.
Also when configuring my rudder pedals the result is that pressing left rudder makes right rudder move in the cockpit and corrrespondingly for right rudder.
The A2A config utility made it possible to assign axes like Turbo Lever and steering wheel. These settings were lost by disabling controllers. In FSUIPC no axe like turbo lever is listed. There was a tiller like axe which would correspond to the steering wheel but that didn't work
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I'm trying to configure my CH Throttle quadrant for use with the A2A B377 Stratocruiser. For this plane I try to make the most left lever (normally assigned to throttle 1) to control the RPM since the B377 has one lever at the left for this. Then I want to assign the next four levers to throttle 1-4 and finally the rightmost lever as mixture. Important is that his should only apply to this specific plane. I go to FSUIPC Axis assigment tabs to do this. I have problem with the rightmost lever configured as mixture. First the lever can not set the mixture to the full range (unlike rpm and throttle levers). But in VC I see the mixture lever move between fully forward to slightly back when moving the physical lever over its full range. Also when going to calibration I see the value is zero at fully back position and the slightly ahead of the detent it goes to max 16834 and stays there. I have checked no other axis of any controller being assigned to mixture. Also if I move the mixture lever in the VC manually fully back I notice that moving lever 5 (throttle 4) makes the mixture lever in VC move forward. I don't understand why.
Another problem here. According to the manual I removed all axis assigments for the throttle quadrant in FSX own axis assigment menue. This resulted in my other planes not being able to use the throttle quadrant so the B377 specific configuration also affected other planes. Do I understand things correctly that I would need to make profile specific configuration for all my individual planes ?
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I have paid for and used the registered FSUIPC. Now I have also register WideFS. The Result of that successfull registration was the FSUIPC is no longer considered registered.Also I can't fill in email address since thAT IS FILLED in by FSUIPC and it's not possible to change it . So what to do?
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Hi there,
the first file on the list is the culprit, the one in \Namw\scenery. This and other related default files should have been deactivated when you first installed Misty or UT; Misty should have renamed it to .bak or UT to .xxx. Not sure why it's still an active .bgl.
There should be a Misty.bat file in \Namw\scenery. Double-clicking on it should rename the following 13 .bgl files to *.bak:
HL913110.bgl
HL913120.bgl
HP912120.bgl
HL912120.bgl
HP913110.bgl
HP913120.bgl
RD912120.bgl
RD913120.bgl
RR913120.bgl
ST912120.bgl
ST913110.bgl
ST913120.bgl
UT912120.bgl
Try that please. If it doesn't work something blocks the execution of Misty.bat and you'll have to rename those files manually.
Cheers, Holger
The files were renamed and the scenery in the posted pic was corrected but I wonder about the Ketchikan airport. Isn't there a taxiway going into the mountains? See new shot
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Hi jfri,
that does look just a touch messed up :shock:
Looks like there's some leftover default files floating around. Please do a Windows search for files with "HP912120" as part of their names and post the results. It's easiest if you take a screenshot of the search window. However, I do need to be able to see the full file names and paths for each entry.
Cheers, Holger
Here is a shot and a saved search result of the file in question
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Hi jfri:
This thread out to help. viewtopic.php?t=31898
Bob
That thread didn't make much sense for me. It wasn't about UT but other mesh. I do indeed have the FSG Cordillera Canada 38 m mesh installed. But I have no entries in my scenery library or scenery.cfg for any mesh installed. I do have this in my scenery.cfg
[Area.039]
Title=Misty Fjords Landsca
Local=FSAddon\Misty Fjords\Misty Fjords landscape
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=40
Remote=
[Area.040]
Title=Misty Fjords Scenery
Local=FSAddon\Misty Fjords\Misty Fjords scenery
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=41
Remote=
[Area.041]
Title=Ultimate Terrain - Canada/Alaska
Local=SCENERY\UTCANADA
Layer=39
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Remote=
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I have recently purchased UTCanada and after installing it MF is corrupted with double shorelines and misplaced textures which wasn't the case before. I have found and installed the latest v4 UT-MF patch but it didn't solve the problem. I have disabled read only in both MF and UT folder. First I found an old version of UT-MF patch and it didn't behaved exactly as it should. But the latest v4 did. I think. In MFBackup I have 12 bgl files in UTBackup I got 20 bgl files
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Otherwise I have found an old Windows 2000 Professional CD beta release canditate 2. What could the chances be here?
Chances for what? If it is a Microsoft Beta release of some old Win2000 version, then the chances that you can use it at all are pretty slim. Its Beta period will have expired.
Are you short of a proper copy of Windows and this is the only reason you are resorting to a (free?) Linux?
Regards
Pete
Answer YES.
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Pete
Hmmm ...
Sorry, no idea at all on that. I don't know Linux nor do I know how good the emulators are.
BTW, it is quite difficult to find your replies amongst all this. I don't think you've quite got the hang of the "quote" facility? Maybe you could just do plain messages in future? ;-)
Regards
Pete
That's completely true. I'm unable to use the tricky quote facality :? :x and my posts don't end up like I wan't them.
Otherwise I stated that I doubt that AS 6.5 will work under Win 98 since as far as I know we can't have the .NET framework in it (or in Linux or Win 2000 I suspect).
Otherwise I have found an old Windows 2000 Professional CD beta release canditate 2. What could the chances be here?
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Windows 98? Maybe WideFS but can Active Sky and RC run under that?
don't see why not, but you'd need to check about Active Sky.
I doubt very mainly because .NET Framework v1.1 is required. Otherwise they state in the readme file
'Windows XP (Other OS versions may work but have not been officially tested)'
From what I know there are Windows emulators available. Question will they be able to run the needed software?Probably not.
I have heard that people have failed running FS9 under Linux even after trying hard. That don't surprises me but AS and RC (also forget FSflying school) are no advanced games so shouldn't there be better hope?
Also for RC can I not use the sound on the primary computer and just have RC send the needed information over WideFS?
No, unless you don't want to hear the ATC which makes it rather pointless. RC produces its own sound, it doesn't use FS. One of the biggest benefits of having ATC on a separate PC is that the sound is separate, so you can use a headset, for instance.
Pete
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What would be the system requirements for the secondary computer?
Nothing extraordinary, as neither of those programs is either a processor or video hog. You need sound for Radar Contact of course, and an internet connection for Active Sky downloads.
So a AMD 2400XP with 512M RAM would be fine.
Most important will I need Win XP?Or Windows98 or Win2000 or Vista. Not NT.
Windows 98? Maybe WideFS but can Active Sky and RC run under that?
Or is theere a possibility to have this work under a Linux setup?Only if you have a Windows emulator which could run WideClient, ActiveSky and Radar Contact.
From what I know there are Windows emulators available. Question will they be able to run the needed software?
Also for RC can I not use the sound on the primary computer and just have RC send the needed information over WideFS?
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If I would like to use WideFs so I can run Active Sky and Radarcontact 4 on a second computer what would I need?
What would be the system requirements for the secondary computer? Most important will I need Win XP? Or is theere a possibility to have this work under a Linux setup? I'm in the first place thinking about FS9 but I'm also curious about the abswer for FSX?
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I had problems with selecting a specific engine with e 1 2 3. After selecting engine 1 it was not possible select another engine. Then
I tried 'Fix control acceleration' in FSUIPC. And that helped.
But now this problem manifest itself again in spite of having 'Fix control acceleration' enabled.
Why could this FSUIPC feature suddenly cease to function? I understand nothing.
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It was to correct this sort of problem (which not only affects engine selection, door selection and pushback operations, but also makes some MCP values constantly accelerate) that I enhanced the "control acceleration fix" option (on the Technical page in FSUIPC options) to deal with it in recent versions of FSUIPC. Have you tried that?
No but I tried when I read this and it seems so far to be working.
If you aren't happy with the two key pressing method you could program your own control using the FSUIPC added control "Offset Byte Set", with offset x888 and parameter values 1, 2, 4, 8 for Engines 1, 2, 3, or 4 respectively. Add these together for combinations (e.g. 15 for all 4 engines). The offset x888 is where the E + 1 2 3 4 FS control operates.
If I encounter further problems similar to this I would like to know how to do this. But for the moment the first suggested suggestion did work.
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In some planes I can't select individual plane engines with E 1 E 2 E 1 2.
The reason for this I have heard is that commands from the plane come in before I select a number so my number get no relevance to engineselect.
I try assign key 1 2 3 to engine with parameter 1 2 3. But this seem not work why?
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Go with the Delorme Atlas.... I only paid 27 US$ including shipping to The Nteherlands, and now it would be $ 19
You will have all charts you need of Alaska with all roads, rivers, inlets, fjords and trails. Indeed, not a sectional, but who needs that anyway :-)
But what kind of flying are you doing in MF if there are no airports. For me a flight consists of a departure and arrival airport. For example in MegaScenery USA I create a fligt between two airports. Then the challenge is to find my way to the my target. How is it supposed to be with the targets in MF?
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If you want Sectionals or other Aviation charts you will have to look at Avshop for instance. Their shipping will still be a lot less than what you indicated before.
I just did order from them but was not told the shipping rate. That would be informed later. But inside USA it should cost 1$ for a chart. Well I did receive a mail from them stating
'We would like to confirm that we have received your order. Your calculated online shipping charge is not complete. Your order is subject to additional charges assessed by the shipping carrier. These charges are not reflected on your order. According to our shipping policy we sometimes have to adjust the cost of shipping orders.
The actual shipping and handling cost of your recent order will need to be adjusted to $40.95. This would make the total cost of your order $51.79.
'
Of course I cancelled the order.
Be aware that Misty Fjords is a LARGE area with VERY FEW airfields, so a sectional is not really needed. Bush pilots don't use them, airliners don't land in the area, except on PAKT I would say.
I find it hard to use a scenery without a real map:
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Jfri, your DEFINITELY looking in all the WRONG places, my friend.
I just checked for you to be certain.
The Delorme Alaska Atlas & Gazetteer costs $ 13,95, NEW !
Shipping cost to Europe is $ 4.49 MAX per shipment.
That's a total of LESS than 20 US$ and thus not even 17 Euros.
I'll try to give you a shortcut, but not sure it will work. Otherwise you'll have to make your way to Amazon on your own and look for it there! :wink:
The shortcut did work. I see that this is no map dedicated for flying like a sectional. I suppose there is no info about airspace and VOR NDB. Doest it still work fine for planning flights in the Misty Fjord scenery?
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iPilot is a strange company. They seem to be very 'protective' and we had some strange conversations with them at one time. I am sure you can find another source :wink:
I use the Delorme Atlas and it covers ALL of Alaska. I bought some aircraft charts at a local shop near Amsterdam Airport, they cost me only 7 $ a piece.
The only alternative I have found is this delorme. And they have informed me that international shipping rates is $31 to $39 for paper map.
I find this insane considering that a USA Megascenery cost some 5$ in shipping and then you get a lot more than just a papermap.
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Howdy,
please have a look in the thread below. It contains links to providers of various aviation and topographic maps.
http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.p=sectional
Thanks for your interest in Misty Fjords!
Cheers, Holger
Following that hread I found a company called iPilot selling paper charts.
BUT for international orders a shipping rate of $69 is stated.
When I asked about that I was told that the real shipping was lower, and to order for that I should fullfill the order and the shipping rate should be corrected afterwards.
I sure don't dare to give my creditcard number and continue a order where $69 is stated as shipping rate.
What do you think about this? Why can't they make sure the real shipping rate is listed?
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Is it possible to buy a map like those included in USA Megascenery, that covers the misty fjord area. If so where? I'm aware that online maps exist but I think a real paper map is a must if I'm to buy misty fjords.
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I caved and spent $20 on a Ketchikan Sectional. You can purchase them from here
http://www.aviationworld.ca/product.asp?pID=1012&cID=68
It's a Canadian based company that has stores in Vancouver and Toronto, and ships worldwide I believe.
Is this the same kind of charts that are supplied with for example
MegaScenery USA 2004? If not what are the differences?
Problem with Axis assignment
in FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules
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I use Win 7. I was talking about the calibration you go to when selecting to calibrate from inside FSX. The first two levers normally assigned to throttle 1 and 2 are presented as x/y in a 2D figure and you are told to move in full circles. But that fails since calibration moves on to the next axis before I have moved both levers in their full range.
I do see that this is not because of FSUIPC. For now after removing the B377 portion in FSUIPC.ini and enabling controllers in FSX the throttle behaves weird. Can go from -16000 to around zero for just nudgong the lever when at idle detention.
In axis assignment tab I did see the axis assigned to rudder as checked raw and also grayed out. Don't remember doing any choices here.
List my B377 portion in fsuipc.ini below. Do you seee anything strange here. Also saw that there were some entries for other planes that I have used with controllers enabled and it seems to have been working. For example he Katana 4X.
[Profile.B377]
1=Boeing Stratocruiser, NWA
[JoystickCalibration.B377]
AllowSuppressForPFCquad=Yes
ExcludeThrottleSet=Yes
ExcludeMixtureSet=Yes
ExcludePropPitchSet=Yes
SepRevsJetsOnly=No
ApplyHeloTrim=No
UseAxisControlsForNRZ=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=-15993,-512,512,16256
Throttle=-8785,8785
Elevator=-16384,-512,512,15616
PropPitch=-16384,16383
[Axes.B377]
RangeRepeatRate=10
0=0X,256,F,66291,0,0,0
1=0Y,256,D,9,0,0,0
2=0Z,256,D,10,0,0,0
3=0R,256,D,11,0,0,0
4=0U,256,D,6,0,0,0
5=0V,256,D,12,0,0,0
6=1X,R0,F,66387,0,0,0
7=1Y,R0,D,8,0,0,0
8=1Z,R0,D,3,0,0,0
9=1U,R0,F,65767,0,0,0
10=2X,256,D,21,0,0,0
11=3X,256,D,1,0,0,0
12=3Y,256,D,2,0,0,0