ground problems with FSUIPC

[captainflyin]

i have a registered version of FSUIPC and ive been using it with FS2002 Professional edition.. but when iam using it, iam having these problems:

1) The Aircraft doesn't go to either left or right during pushouts when i press shift+p+1 (or +2)

2)The Aircraft doors or select exit doesnt work when i press shift+e+1 (or +2...)

sir pete, can you help me out?? thanx sir pete and also iam a newbie here! lolz! thanx a lot!

[Pete Dowson]

i have a registered version of FSUIPC and ive been using it with FS2002 Professional edition.. but when iam using it, iam having these problems:

1) The Aircraft doesn't go to either left or right during pushouts when i press shift+p+1 (or +2)

2)The Aircraft doors or select exit doesnt work when i press shift+e+1 (or +2...)

Why are you attributing these problems to FSUIPC? They are nothing to do with FSUIPC and I'm afraid there is probably nothing I can do which will help.

I assume that you are not trying to use any other FS control between pressing the Shift P or Shift E and the number? Folks are always tempted to press Shift P to start the pushback, then select a different view so they can see when to tell it to turn by pressing the 1 or 2. Unfortunately, the way FS is written, any intervening control will take FS out of the correct mode and the numeric will not do its job!

In fact, those are symptoms of aircraft panels which are sending too many controls, for some reason best known to their authors. Several of the more advanced complicated ones do this, and it is those, too, which need the "accelerated controls" fix in FSUIPC, for the same reason.

What happens in those cases is that the controls sent by the panel intervene between the Shift P or Shift E and the following number.

If your problem is due to the panel (check by trying one of the default FS panels -- none of them do such things) then you could try enabling that accelerated controls fix option in FSUIPC (on the Technical page). It may help, but I doubt it, as it cannot actually stop the controls, only disable a timer which makes them accelerate.

Regards,

Pete

[Skittles]

I've had the same symptoms for a long time and Pete, you've given the only real answer I've ever read. Why can't everyone know as much as you... You're the best.

Joe