Problem with configuration

[Marc Riedel]

Hello Pete

I have a proplem...

I use CH FlightSim and Pro Pedals (both USB)

Before my System crash I had a wonderful config but now I am not able to reconfig this settings.

There are three axis => Throttle, Mixture and Prop

I'd like to set

Throttle as Throttle

Mixture as Reverse

Prop as Spoiler

The main problem is always that I just can config that Throttle and Reverse use the whole Throttle-Range... I mean from Full Power <=> Full Reverse

How can I tell my FS that the Throttle use from Idle => Full Power and Reverse from Idel => Full Reverse ?

I'd be very happy if you could help me !

[Pete Dowson]

I'd like to set

Throttle as Throttle

Mixture as Reverse

Prop as Spoiler

Well, you can do the Throttle and Spoiler assignments in FS, you don't need FSUIPC. The reverser can be done easily enough in FSUIPC.

The main problem is always that I just can config that Throttle and Reverse use the whole Throttle-Range... I mean from Full Power <=> Full Reverse

Er, that is only true if you are assigning the throttle as Throttle 1. Assign it as Throttle only -- the generic all-engine throttle supported in FS does not include a reverse part of the range.

There is no reverse axis in FS as such. The one in FS cannot provide forward thrust, and will only engage reverse when the main throttle(s) are at idle.

Regards,

Pete

[Marc Riedel]

Hello Pete

Throttle as Throttle

Mixture as Reverse

Prop as Spoiler

OK, Throttle and Spoiler works perfekt.

Now I want to tell FSUIPC that my Prop Axis has to work between idle and full reverse. There is a Option in Joysitcks | 7 of 8 but it doesn't recognize which axis i want - there happens nothing...

Sorry for this stupid questions... but I am not a crack who knows how it works...

[Marc Riedel]

Morning

I read the manuals several times and tried a lot of things but I can't assign the axis like I want :cry:

Pete, I need your help...

Thottel and Spoiler works wonderful... but the reverse not :cry:

[Pete Dowson]

Now I want to tell FSUIPC that my Prop Axis has to work between idle and full reverse. There is a Option in Joysitcks | 7 of 8 but it doesn't recognize which axis i want - there happens nothing...

The separate prop axes work for the 4 separate prop axis controls. EITHER you need to reassign your prop axis to Prop 1 (assuming you only ever want to fly singles), or just use the facility in FSUIPC (in the main single prop axis page) to map the single axis to the 4 separate ones. ("Map to 4 props").

Sorry for this stupid questions... but I am not a crack who knows how it works...

Crack? Isn't that a drug?

The problems in all this are due to FS's design of the controls, not FSUIPC. There are no reverse parts on the main default controls, only on the separate ones for each engine. You can do all you want in FS assignments -- try FS's help instead of FSUIPC. If you want to use FSUIPC instead, that's fine, but you do need to look at the user guide, where I do try to explain it. I don't see how I can explain it better here are many years of it being embellished in the user guide.

Regards,

Pete

[Pete Dowson]

Thottel and Spoiler works wonderful... but the reverse not :cry:

What is it you are doing, or don't understand? I cannot explain it better here than in the documentation, and there's no point in me reproducing the docs here, so you need to be more specific.

Regards,

Pete

[Frank.O]

Hi Pete,

What is it you are doing, or don't understand?

I may be wrong but I think Marc wants to fly a twin engined jet and he is trying to set up his CH yoke so the throttle lever operates both throttles, the mix lever operates the spoilers and the prop lever operates both separate reverse levers. You know those reverse levers that are mounted onto the main throttle levers in a real airliner. On landing you pull the throttles back to idle and then grab the reverse levers and pull them back also to engage reverse.

So the prop lever on the CH yoke should provide no reverse in the full forward position and full reverse on both engines in the full backward position.

I have never done that but it may be possible to do it by editing the FSUIPC.ini.

Hope this helps,

Frank

[Pete Dowson]

I may be wrong but I think Marc wants to fly a twin engined jet and he is trying to set up his CH yoke so the throttle lever operates both throttles, the mix lever operates the spoilers and the prop lever operates both separate reverse levers.

Ah, so he doesn't want a reverse prop pitch range on the Prop axis?

As documented, FSUIPC defaults to selecting the Mixture axis as reverser. So if he has used FS Assignments to define his Mixture axis as a Spoiler Axis, he can now easily use FS assignments to assign his Prop Axis as the Mixture Axis. Then in FSUIPC simply calibrate the reverser.

So the prop lever on the CH yoke should provide no reverse in the full forward position and full reverse on both engines in the full backward position.

That is exactly what the Reverser axis facility in FSUIPC is designed to do. He may need to check the "reverse the reverser axis" option if it works back to front, that's all.

I have never done that but it may be possible to do it by editing the FSUIPC.ini.

As documented, it is clearly possible to assign any axis as the reverser axis. The Advanced User's guide even gives a list of the axis numbers for this. But as he is not using a Mixture axis it is far easier to use the default FSUIPC assignment of the mixture axis.

My problem is that I don't understand why he doesn't understand. This facility has been included in FSUIPC now for three years and it seems to be generally well understood.

Regards,

Pete

[Marc Riedel]

Well, finally I gave it up to configure that stuff...

I just want to have

one Axis for Throttle (all engines, left axis, idle <=> full power)

one Axis for Reverse (all engines, middle axis, idle <=> full reverse)

one Axis for Spoiler (right axis, closed <=> open)

Throttle and Spoiler works - but Reverse on the middle Axis oh CH doesn't work and I read the manual but I don't know how to do that...

A Crack is somebody who is a very advanced computer user ;) no drugs

[Pete Dowson]

Throttle and Spoiler works - but Reverse on the middle Axis oh CH doesn't work and I read the manual but I don't know how to do that...

Just use FS to assign that axis as the Mixture (Options-Controls-Assignments). When you've done that, go to FSUIPC options, find the Joystick page containing the Reverser, click the "Set" button for the reverser and calibrate it by following the steps in the documentation.

What is so hard about that? What is it about that you don't understand? Why didn't you understand that from the documentation? (Sorry about all the questions, but I do need to know these things to improve documents so I don't have to answer such questions here forever :wink: ).

A Crack is somebody who is a very advanced computer user ;) no drugs

Ah, in which country is this? Is seems rather a localised term.

Regards,

Pete