Configuring reverse thrust on new PFC gear

[saxon]

Peter,

You'll I'm sure be pleased to hear that the new PFC gear works like a dream and is beautifully made. All the twitchyness in pitch I had attributed to Microsoft's poor aircraft handling is gone and it is now possible to hand fly a stable approach.

I do have a query though regarding the use of the twin prop quadrant with say a 737. I'd like to engage reverse thrust and spoilers using the prop levers and can't find any way to do this in the PFC user guide.

Any tips on how to accomplish this would be appreciated.

Kind regards,

Jonathan

[Pete Dowson]

I do have a query though regarding the use of the twin prop quadrant with say a 737. I'd like to engage reverse thrust and spoilers using the prop levers and can't find any way to do this in the PFC user guide.

Any tips on how to accomplish this would be appreciated.

Have you entirely missed the section in the User Guide entitled

USER CONFIGURED QUADRANTS

or it there something in that section which isn't clear? Such a question hasn't arisen before in the two and a half years since the facilities were provided, so naturally I thought it was described well. Please tell me what isn't clear.

Regards,

Pete

[saxon]

Peter,

Many thanks for pointing to the appropriate instructions - works a dream. I think it's one of the unfortunate aspects to not having a printed manual that it's easy to miss things when reading off the screen so apologies.

All present and correct now. May I also complement you on writing such an exemplary set of drivers for PFC - the functionality available is quite superb and once I'd identified the correct com port I was up an running quickly. I'm about to try and get the PTT button working on AVC with Squawkbox - I notice that there is a PTT option available under the button programming section so hopefully shouldn't pose a problem.

Kind regards,

Jonathan

[saxon]

Peter,

One thing I just noted is that I had to switch my USB plugs around due to the arrival of a further Goflight unit. When I did so the PC detected the USB serial adapter I am using as a new device so I reinstalled it. As a result I found my com port assignment for my PFC gear is now Com 5 not 4. Is there a way to prevent the com port continually incrementing every time I change USB plugs around?

many thanks,

Jonathan

[Pete Dowson]

Is there a way to prevent the com port continually incrementing every time I change USB plugs around?

I know nothing about USB. Those things I have plugged into USB stay plugged in. Why would you keep moving them? Luckily I also still have REAL serial ports, so I can use those too.

Maybe, if you unplug ALL your USB stuff, then boot with only the PFC gear, get that onto its "first available COM", then connect all the things wihch you like swapping about a lot, it will stay put?

If there was a way to automatically identify where the PFC gear is connected then I would find it for you, but it isn't a real USB device, and it has no identifying signal. Also, playing about with all the COM ports I can find can cause problems with modems and other types of gear folks may connect.

Incidentally Win98 was much worse. I think it might have assigned different things to each USB connection each time it was booted!

Maybe Katy Pluta over in the FS2004 forum can help. She is a good WinXP expert. This is really more of a Windows question I think.

Regards,

Pete