MattOlieman Posted December 29, 2004 Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 Hi Pete, I need some advise. I use the following offsets for my A340 Airbus throttles: Throttle 1. 88C Throttle 2. 924 Throttle 3. 9BC Throttle 4. A54 This is the problem; PM FCU recognizes joystick sliders as a throttle, which is needed to be able to set the throttle gates. PM FCU does not recognize the above throttle offsets. Of course, I can not set the gates in the FCU. Did I miss something in your documentation to make this work or is this a PM issue? Pete, any help is appreciated. Matt O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted December 29, 2004 Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 I use the following offsets for my A340 Airbus throttles: ... Did I miss something in your documentation to make this work or is this a PM issue? Quite honestly, I am totally lost :? , so I assume it must be 100% a PM issue of some sort. Are you writing a program to read your throttle levers and write the calibrated results direct to FSUIPC offsets? That direct method of throttle control would be one used by non-FS auto-throttle implementations as well, so it will get very tricky. Are you writing the auto-throttle code too? If, for some reason, you are just wanting to bypass normal joystick axis assignments and driver calibrations I think you still need to use the same controls -- either AXIS_THROTTLEn_SET with parameters -16383 to +16383, or the older FS98 compatible ones, THROTTLEn_SET. If you need to do this via offsets then do so via the two 32-bit values at offset 3110. Regards, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattOlieman Posted December 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 I'm lost too.... :? Are you writing a program to read your throttle levers and write the calibrated results direct to FSUIPC offsets? I'm using FS2Phidget.exe (Alan Dyer) and a Phidget Analog Module, that's exactly what it does. Hmmmm, the head scratching continues... :roll: Thank you Pete, Matt O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted December 29, 2004 Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 I'm using FS2Phidget.exe (Alan Dyer) and a Phidget Analog Module, that's exactly what it does. Hmmmm, the head scratching continues... :roll: If it only writes to offsets, try writing the controls as I suggested. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattOlieman Posted December 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 Thanks again Pete, Unfortunately that is beyond my ability, at least I think, for now. This is an excerpt from the FS2PhUIPC.ini file: [THROTTLE_LEVER_1] Offset=088C Length=2 FSType=Proportional LoValue=0 HiValue=16384 As you can see that limits of what I can do. I will pass the information on to Enrico and Alan. Matt O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 Thanks again Pete, Unfortunately that is beyond my ability, at least I think, for now. ... As you can see that limits of what I can do. If it can only write one location, or is limited to 1, 2 and 4 byte values, then, it isn't actually your ability in question, is it? It's a limitation of the software driver you are using. It seems a very odd way to implement joystick axis control. Are there others using this method? It basically bypasses everything and acts like an external autothrottle control. I don't see how any aircraft implementation would work with that except using FS's own A/T. Or maybe you can program it to detect the A/T engagement and suppress inputs then? As far as special Airbus thrust values, I really don't know anything about those. You will certainly need to discuss that with Enrico. Regards, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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