jamessbarker

Hello Mr Dowson. I'm sorry if I gave you the impression I've not read the documentation, as I have read it many times. Yes, I understand the difference between the raw and FS values. No, the physical prop control on the PFC Cirrus II twin engine piston quadrant does not have a detent in it, unlike the logical prop control for the 58 Baron displayed on the MSFS screen. And no, there is no way to get an underlying negative FS value, whether I do manual or automatic calibration, whether I try leaving a "dead zone" or not, and regardless of the size of the dead zone -- the minimum FS value is capped at zero. The turboprop quadrant on the PFC dialog displays minimum FS values of -4096 for the power and prop controls, but the twin engine piston quadrant does not support this in calibration no matter how much you move the lever, manual or automtic calibration, and the "rev" checkbox is disabled too. All of this is why I posted my original question. I see that I should continue using the keyboard. Thank you, and I'm sorry to have bothered you. James Barker

Hello Mr. Dowson: Is there a way I could configure PFC.DLL to support moving the prop controls into the feather position for the stock 58 Baron? I am using PFC.DLL v1.92. Currently, I have FSUIPC set to use a couple keyboard keys to feather the props., which I don't like doing (using the keyboard). Looking at the Baron's XML code, feathering is not done via the PROP_FEATHER commands, rather, it's done by setting PROPx_SET to a negative number (there's a macro in the engine quadrant XML module that does this) -- I have FSUIPC sending -3000 as the parameter when the A and S keys are pressed, and it works fine (except that I am using the keyboard). The PFC dialog will only take a predefined range of values from 18 to 115, it seems, so I tried forcing the values in through PFC.INI. PFC.DLL seems to ignore the values in PFC.INI if I put a negative in, so I can't seem to get there from here. :( For reference, I also have the twin turboprop throttle quadrant, which I use with the King Air 350 and a King Air C90B, and the feather function works fine (not that that means anything with regards to the Baron, of course). Thanks! James S. Barker

Hello Mr. Dowson: What is the code (or name, in the Modules/FSUIPC dialog dropdowns, if there is one) for the *main panel* DME Nav1/2 switch? I have an Elite AP2000, and the DME R1/R2/OFF switch controls the DME display on the radio stack just fine, but it doesn't touch the one on the main instrument panel, which is very distracting during DME-based approaches, and when trying to ID the DME morse. I did send a note to Elite about this, but I have this impression that there isn't much support from Elite on using their hardware with FltSim 2004, and "you get what you get, and if that's not good enough, life's tough". So, barring a "good" solution to the problem, I thought I'd assign a keyboard key to that Nav1/Nav2 switch. The DME, DME1_TOGGLE and DME2_TOGGLE settings all only control the DME display in the radio stack -- I haven't found one that controls the display on the main panel. I am using the Beech Baron, if that helps/matters. Thanks very much.[/b]