Hi all
My dad and I are building a full cockpit and have recently bought a used motorized TQ. Its a Simulatory TQ but it has been rewired to a ProSim board and I cannot make it work. Our pit is mostly based around Opencockpit cards so worst case I can rewire to a couple of OC cards, but that would 1, cost money, and 2, possibly more time. I would like to try to see if I can keep the ProSim board, which communicates thru its own hardware and FSUIPC. I have no direct experience with FSUIPC, so I am starting from the beginning.
I am sunning W7 64bit, FSX accel, and PMDG NGX. The OC cards are working thru OC4BA.
So I have all my cards connected. I connected the USB from the Prosim and started logging the FSUIPC.
now there are confusing results. For example the Flaps work with the basic FSX 737NG, but not with PMDG. I know PMDG uses some extra offsets but I cannot find any difference with Flaps.
Parking Brake works, and as I move it, I can see a line saying Control 65752, which I can look up to correspond to Parking Brake. I can then see the 0BC8 offset modified, and bam, parking brake is on.
However, if I move the flaps lever, I can see an Axis 65698, which is Flaps_Set. I can also monitor 0BDC, and that is changed, however the sim doesnt change. When I manually change the flaps, I can also see a Control 65758.
This confuses my a bit. I thought the ultimate goal is to set the offset - and in this case, the offset is changed but to no avail? And what is the difference between the Axis and Control? is Axis (Flaps_Set) just an answer from the computer (like an output) and Control is an input? am I missing my input? but in that case, how can it work with the stock 737? I thought the PMDG has different offsets but it seems they are the same.
I have been playing with the reversers which work not as expected. If I putt the throttles all the way back, I can see the reverser levers in the sim move. Then I cannot move them forward again. it seems the reversers are sort of negative throttle axis, which I think is incorrect.
Also if I point my mouse to the reverser lever, FSUIPC log is filled up with 66162 messages which I dont know what is it?
I have a lot of messages regarding 70258 and 70301 and these are numbers I cannot find. Can someone tell me what are these?
Thank you
Balazs