Fry777 Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Hello Pete ! I have a problem assigning thrust reverse with the saitek pro flight throttle. As you may already know, reverse on this quadrant isn't part of the throttle axis, but simply a button toggle. That is, below reverse, it is the same as a "push and maintain button" action I use the dreamfleet 727 and managed to configure separate reverse thrust using the FSUIPC command (FSUIPC direct) "throttle 1 dec", "throttle 2 dec", "throttle 3 dec", and ticking the "repeat" box. That works fine but it is giving me full reverse thrust 1 second after going into reverse, and the airplane stops quite quickly. My question is : is there a way to get only partial reverse thrust per engine ? For example, only half reverse power ? I tried using the command "throttle x set" instead of "throttle x dec", and putting a -2000 value parameter for example (because as I understood it, reverse thrust is going from 0 to -4096...) but when I do this I get no reverse at all. I also tried with various parameters (,-1000, -13000, -20000, etc...) but to no avail. I'm quite sure I'm doing something wrong here but I'm stuck, I don't manage to see where the problem lies. I run FSUIPC v3.768, here is an extract of the FSUIPC.ini file : [JoystickCalibration] ExclThrottleSet=No SepRevsJetsOnly=No ApplyHeloTrim=No FlapsSetControl=0 FlapDetents=No ReverserControl=66292 Reverser1Control=66422 Reverser2Control=66425 Reverser3Control=66428 Reverser4Control=66431 MaxThrottleForReverser=256 AileronTrimControl=0 RudderTrimControl=0 CowlFlaps1Control=0 CowlFlaps2Control=0 CowlFlaps3Control=0 CowlFlaps4Control=0 MaxSteerSpeed=60 LeftBrake=-16383,16384/16 RightBrake=-16383,16384/16 Aileron=-16384,0,0,16383 SlopeAileron=5 Elevator=-16384,0,0,16383 SlopeElevator=8 SlopeLeftBrake=6 SlopeRightBrake=6 Throttle1=-16384,-16384,-16384,16383 Throttle2=-16384,-16384,-16384,16383 Throttle3=-16384,-16384,-16384,16383 [Axes] 8=2X,256,D,22,0,0,0 9=2Y,256,D,23,0,0,0 10=2Y,B,13824,16383,65760,1 11=2Y,B,8960,13824,65760,2 12=2Y,B,4992,9088,65760,3 0=0X,256,D,7,0,0,0 1=0Y,256,D,8,0,0,0 2=0R,256,D,3,0,0,0 3=1X,256,D,1,0,0,0 4=1Y,256,D,2,0,0,0 5=1Z,256,D,9,0,0,0 6=1R,256,D,11,0,0,0 7=1U,256,D,10,0,0,0 13=2Y,B,-390,4992,65760,4 14=2Y,B,-4681,-520,65760,5 15=2Y,B,-8842,-4681,65760,6 16=2Y,B,-12223,-8842,65760,7 17=2Y,B,-16384,-12223,65760,8 18=2Z,256 19=2Z,U,1280,16383,66079,0 20=2Z,D,-16384,1280,66080,0 [buttons] 1=R1,2,C65607,0 2=R1,3,C65615,0 3=R1,4,C65607,0 4=R1,5,C65615,0 5=R1,20,C66635,0 6=R1,21,C66636,0 7=R1,22,C66637,0 9=U1,21,C65972,0 10=U1,22,C65977,0 11=P1,1,C65589,0 12=P1,0,C65570,0 13=U1,20,C65967,0 14=P1,32,C66416,0 [JoystickCalibration.Dreamfleet Boeing 727-200 Freighter TNT] ExclThrottleSet=No SepRevsJetsOnly=No ApplyHeloTrim=No FlapsSetControl=0 FlapDetents=No ReverserControl=66292 Reverser1Control=66422 Reverser2Control=66425 Reverser3Control=66428 Reverser4Control=66431 MaxThrottleForReverser=256 AileronTrimControl=0 RudderTrimControl=0 CowlFlaps1Control=0 CowlFlaps2Control=0 CowlFlaps3Control=0 CowlFlaps4Control=0 MaxSteerSpeed=60 Aileron=-16384,0,0,16383 SlopeAileron=5 Elevator=-16380,-512,512,16380 SlopeElevator=8 Rudder=-16380,-512,512,16380 SlopeRudder=3 LeftBrake=-16383,16384/16 SlopeLeftBrake=8 RightBrake=-16383,16384/16 SlopeRightBrake=8 Throttle1=-16384,-16384,-16384,16383 Throttle2=-16384,-16384,-16384,16383 Throttle3=-16384,-16384,-16384,16383 Spoilers=-16383,16384/16 Flaps=-16384,16383/16 Thank you for your help ! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 I have a problem assigning thrust reverse with the saitek pro flight throttle. As you may already know, reverse on this quadrant isn't part of the throttle axis, but simply a button toggle. No, I didn't know that at all. That sounds like the system on the GoFlight throttle quadrant. I must admist it doesn't sound like a good mathod to me. My question is : is there a way to get only partial reverse thrust per engine ? For example, only half reverse power ? I tried using the command "throttle x set" instead of "throttle x dec", and putting a -2000 value parameter for example (because as I understood it, reverse thrust is going from 0 to -4096...) but when I do this I get no reverse at all. I also tried with various parameters (,-1000, -13000, -20000, etc...) but to no avail. That's because you have the Throttle x Set axis control calibrated through FSUIPC with no reverse zone. I run FSUIPC v3.768 If you are going to use an interim version of FSUIPC, please at least use the latest. That one is pretty old now. 3.783 is the current one. Your INI file shows you still have ThrottleN_Set controls going through the calibration: ExclThrottleSet=No Go to the 4-throttles tab in FSUIPC options and check the option at bottom right to make FSUIPC allow those controls through un-calibrated. BTW, the actual reverse range is only down to -4096 when the maximum reverse thrust is set to 25% in the aircraft's CFG file. It varies from aircraft to aircraft. Regards Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtjoeng Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Like Pete says I did a couple of edits for aircraft when I used FS9, and have a look at: aircraft.cfg [GeneralEngineData] min_throttle_limit = -0.25 //Minimum percent throttle. Generally negative for turbine reverser and make this like -0.12 and you would have 50% reverse (havent tested) actually I have a Saitek and using FSX and dont mind lots of reverse specially at aerosoft's Lukla airport (Himalaya) you want Lots of It :D also I have the throttle button 'when button released' do 'throttle# Cut' for the throttle button seems to 'stick' to reverse (at least my feelthere 737) when returned to 0 what made me advance throttles a bit after landing reverse, and gives a weird accelleration 'bump'. mt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fry777 Posted February 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Thank you Pete that did the trick Now I will check and read the guide about the conditional programming, to see if I can use something about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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