Luke Kolin

After having lost my SSD over Christmas, I am in the process of restoring my FS9/FSX settings and have it all complete, except for my thrust reverser axis. I am using the left-most axis controller on my CH Yoke as my reverser axis through FSUIPC, and I can't get it working correctly. I have validated that my throttle is working correctly and has a decent idle zone. When at idle I can hit decrease thrust a few times, the reversers engage and stay engaged. Here's a picture of my FSUIPC4 settings: I am reversing the axis because I want full reverse when I push the lever forward, not backwards. To calibrate, I move the lever full forward, hit SET under reverse, then backwards 95% of the way and press SET under Idle. In FSX, this has zero effect. In FS9, on the other hand (having done the same process), the reversers engage at 50% forward, then disengage when full forward. I pull back to full idle - and they engage full! Very strange. Pete, if you need any other data from me, let me know. I'm at a loss on this. Cheers! Luke

That looks like the problem there - either WideServer wasn't started at that time or the firewall was blocking it. Cheers! Luke

I have some software that allows me to lookup a VOR and automatically apply the frequency to the NAV1 radio with a specified heading. This works fantastically, except on the FS9 PMDG. It appears that offset 0C4E is read only and doesn't update the gauge and then when I move the knob I get the old course. Using FS Controls 1026 and 1027 doesn't appear to update the gauge either. Does anyone know what controls or offsets can adjust the course knob in the PMDG 737 MCP? I imagine a home cockpit builder must have needed to do this at some point in the past; I am stumped. Please note that this is for FS9, and *NOT* FSX. Cheers! Luke

Makes sense. That's what I was doing for the FS9 737NG but I wondered if there was a "better" way. Now this may verge on abuse of your generosity, but has there been any discussions with PMDG on getting this data for the 747 and MD-11? Even the MCP status would be a huge benefit to those of us writing flight data recorders. Cheers! Luke

Thank you so much for adding these offsets! Out of curiosity, is there an offset guaranteed to be non-zero if the NGX is loaded? I'm looking for a shortcut to detect the presence of the aircraft outside of the AIR file name. Cheers! Luke

Why? There are offsets that list flap positions in degrees (multiplied by 512) that I use which work for the vast majority of aircraft. The config file doesn't seem very extendible. Cheers! Luke

I think that either you haven't done everything that the manual says, or you don't have a working network configuration for WideFS or you have a firewall blocking something. Almost certainly. Cheers! Luke

It could be. I raised the volume of the source WAV file and didn't notice a difference, but I didn't restart the sim between times. I'll poke around a little more - I'm reasonably confident that I changed the ID that I passed to FSUIPC on the play call each time, but not 100%. Thanks for the information. Cheers! Luke

I am playing sounds in the sim via the offsets at 0x4200 and above, but the volume seems very low compared to the cockpit and engine noise. I have tried adjusting all of the FS sound volumes to see if this can be raised, but it doesn't appear to be. Is there any way via this interface that the volume can be adjusted? Cheers! Luke

FWIW I read around 50 offsets several times a second without any sort of performance issues from C#. Cheers! Luke

Looks like an FTG-ACARS failure. Luke

??? I think Pete just asked that you not start ActiveSky, not to remove it. If you're getting blue screens, you're having hardware issues, or a bad video driver. Most software won't tax a modern PC enough to trigger an issue, but FSX certainly can. Both FSX and FS9 work quite nicely with Win7. I think there's something specific to your PC that's causing your issues. Cheers! Luke

What specifically do you want to do with it? You probably shouldn't have paid for it unless there was a specific feature you wanted to enable. Luke

Huh? It's just compiled code. All executables are like that. Cheers! Luke

ALT-ENTER if I recall correctly. Cheers! Luke

Likely the opposite - something messed up with your ISP. Cheers! Luke

The .NET framework appears to be fine. This looks like a program error. What is IYP Trial? Cheers! Luke

No. Cheers! Luke

I fear that at times my understanding of low-level data exchange is not what it used to be. Dividing the whole 64-bit integer by 65536.0 makes perfect sense to me now, but didn't occur before. Cheers! Luke

That's what I was missing. Thanks! I think you've confused me with someone else. Cheers! Luke

On this topic, assuming I've read the value in 0570 into a 32-bit integer, what factor do I multiple (or divide) it by to get the fractional component, which I will then add to the 32-bit integer I read from 0574? Cheers! Luke

... as am I - might oldest turns eight today. I'll be in touch shortly. Thanks! Cheers! Luke

I am looking to put together a commercial software package that would rely on FSUIPC for an interface to FS. Pete, how would I go about contacting you privately to discuss this? Cheers! Luke

Thanks, that's helpful to know. Is there any way that this error message can be triggered if no registration key is supplied, and the clock is merely set incorrectly? Cheers! Luke

Just to confirm, that's with 3.911? If so, that's great to hear. I loaded the iFLY just now without issues so that's good to hear. Also makes the mystery more interesting to fix. :) Cheers! Luke