Problem when trying to configure in Slew Mode

[oldflyguy]

I am using the pay version 3.45 to calibrate a CH Yoke, Pedals, and Dual engine Throttle Quadrant. Everything seems to work as it is supposed to until I go into Slew mode to calibrate.

As soon as I enter Slew mode, I am spinning at a high rate of speed, occasionally gaining, then losing, then gaining altitude. and possibly moving forward slowly although it's hard to tell with the ferocious spin.

I can hit 'Alt" access FSUIPC, and get to the Joystick screen for slew calibration. None of the values are changing rapidly in the "set" mode, but neither do the settings seem to have any effect when back into the Sim. The wild spinning continues. A return to 'normal' flight mode and the spinning stops.

Anyone experienced this and have a cure?

[Pete Dowson]

As soon as I enter Slew mode, I am spinning at a high rate of speed, occasionally gaining, then losing, then gaining altitude. and possibly moving forward slowly although it's hard to tell with the ferocious spin.

Sounds like you've not calibrated your controls in Windows at all well! Just calibrating them in FSUIPC isn't ideal, as FSUIPC is only manipulating the end results. With bad Windows calibration you are likely to get less resolution and even asymmetric sensitivities on either side of centre.

Best to go back to Windows, calibrate everythnig as best you can there, then load FS, check that it all works reasonable well, and also ensure (in Options-Settings-Controls-Sensitivities) that you have max sensitivity, min null zone, and then go into FSUIPC for its refinements.

The slew mode calibrations in FSUIPC do work but they are only a recent addition -- really you should be able to use slew in FS without FSUIPC, indeed, as most of course do and have had to for years.

I can hit 'Alt" access FSUIPC, and get to the Joystick screen for slew calibration. None of the values are changing rapidly in the "set" mode

Which joystick screen? Slew controls are only on Page 10 of 11.

When you say "Set" mode, do you mean you've pressed the 'Set' button so that it reads "Reset"? That's when you can calibrate.

In Slew mode you cannot calibrate the normal controls, only the slew controls -- which have their own page. I don't provide calibration for all of them, only the main four.

The normal controls don't get through FS when in slew mode, nor vice versa. You should bear in mind that the FSUIPC facilities are not calibrating joysticks but FS controls -- the things that FS is using internally. FSUIPC has no idea what actual axes are being used at all.

Regards

Pete

[Frank.O]

Hi,

you don't have to go into slew mode to make assignments for it. The trouble you are having happened to me as well when I first installed CH yoke and pedals after having used a simple joystick before. It's nothing to do with FSUIPC. There were double assignments in flight mode and slew mode after FS had recognized the yoke and pedals and had made the standard assignments for them. I made all proper assignments for flight mode but forgot about the slew mode. Go into options controls assignments, choose slew mode from the drop down list and delete any axis assignments you can find there. That should fix it. You can reassign the axes you want after that. I only rarely use slew mode at all and so a few keys assigned to some simple slew commands are enough for me.

Regards,

Frank

[oldflyguy]

You're both correct. I didn't do a good job of the basic MS settings, and I did have duplicate axes in my settings. Once I eliminated the duplications and cleared the CH Yoke in Slew mode (MS settings), the Sim was back to normal in Slew mode (no spinning), albiet with no ability to slew at this point.

However, in MS I cannot seem to set up Slew with the CH Yoke without reinstituting the spinning. I'm not sure whether it is me, MS, or possibly a defect in my CH Pedals. I had a major control failure a couple of weeks ago that was preceeded by a recurring tendancy for any aircraft to very slowly turn right in normal flight. Then, a few flights later, everything went nuts. It somehow resolved itself after a long period of computer shutdown. I still don't know the cause. I have noticed that the slow turning tendancy has returned (this time to the left) but I think this may be due to my inability to reset the FSUIPC-Joysticks-Slew Axes-Slew Heading value back to 0. It seems to be stuck at -66.

I am a scenery developer for a couple of different Flight Sim organizations, and good slew control is essential for this work. I have reconnected my old joystick and have obtained pretty good control in slew mode but heading change is somewhat jerky where it wasn't before. I am able to stop at a precise point in slew without any wander on any axis using the joystick, but until my recent addition of the CH throttle quadrant, I was able to do the same with the CH Yoke and Pedals. I can't seem to find the combination of settings that will allow me to return to the status quo.

Just getting to this point, however, is due the the time and advice offered by you guys (Pete and Frank) and for that I am very grateful.

[Pete Dowson]

... but I think this may be due to my inability to reset the FSUIPC-Joysticks-Slew Axes-Slew Heading value back to 0. It seems to be stuck at -66.

What is the "FSUIPC-Joysticks-Slew Axes-Slew Heading"? I don't have such a thing.

If you are talking about the slew calibrations on page 10 of 11, none of those are operative if the top left button in each reads "Set". If it reads "Reset" then calibrate, or press it to switch FSUIPC calibration off -- it then turns back to "Set".

Pete

[oldflyguy]

"FSUIPC-Joysticks, etc." is the sequence of menu selections that get me to Page 10 of 11. We're speaking of the same thing. The button is back to set. But, whereas all of the other values on the same page with set buttons are "0" values, 'Slew Heading" is at -66. However if the button when reading "Set" has no effect, then I will look elsewhere for my turning problem. I am suspicious of my CH Pedals being just a little off.

Thanks again.