Presicion Flight Control quadrent setting

[Louis]

I have a very hard time to set the throttles on what seems to be just- Turbo Props- and the 2 that i have are the Payware P-12 and the Quest Kodiak with the PF Control quadrent . I have the registered version of FSUIPC-4.5 and for PFC on the main page of the PFC quadrent it says PFC-FSX driver version 4.34.March 2008 . Now when i try to set the throttle on the PFC page when you move the slider up and down, you can see the slider box moves very jerky when the slider moves up and down as you are moving your throttle lever, and i have tried to check and uncheck -- apply digital fitering box and -supress possible interference - box . As far as the jets go like the level D and my props like the free Beech 18 from Milton Shupe the settings are very smooth it's just seems to be the Turbo props . Getting into tight strips it's almost impossible cause the throttles when you move them are always to much or too little and to taxi it's very difficuilt .Any ideas ?? thanks-- Louis--- Canada

[Pete Dowson]

I have the registered version of FSUIPC-4.5

You need to update that. The oldest supported version of FSUIPC4 is 4.60, as stated in the Announcements above. There are also later versions of both FSUIPC4 and PFCFSX.DLL available in the Updates Announcement.

Now when i try to set the throttle on the PFC page when you move the slider up and down, you can see the slider box moves very jerky when the slider moves up and down as you are moving your throttle lever, and i have tried to check and uncheck -- apply digital fitering box and -supress possible interference - box .

You need to seek support from PFC, because a jerky input from an axis can only arise from dirty potentiometer slides (they are linear slide pots in the quadrant), or possibly, and less likely, a dodgy power supply. The digital filtering option is really designed to remove severe spiking which arises from dead spots or from really bad power smoothing. It can't help much with small random up/down effects or sticking. It I implemented a much stronger filtering action it would affect responsiveness too much and become useless.

As far as the jets go like the level D and my props like the free Beech 18 from Milton Shupe the settings are very smooth it's just seems to be the Turbo props .

Erwith the same PFC quadrant device? In that case it cannot be the hardware or the PFC driver. It's something wrong with the aircraft modelling.

Getting into tight strips it's almost impossible cause the throttles when you move them are always to much or too little and to taxi it's very difficuilt .Any ideas

Seems you need to find better aircraft models. I don't know which turbo models you are using, but there's nothing specific about different aircraft which makes any different to the inputs, only to their reaction to those inputs.

If you think the problems with the aircraft can benefit from different sorts of response curves applied to the levers, you could try disabling the axes in the PFC driver and instead assigning them via the Axes assignments tab in FSUIPC. Then, in the calibration section, you can apply response curves of different types.

Regards

Pete

[Louis]

Thanks Pete, i always wondered what the digital check boxes were doing or if they were doing any thing at all .I'll update the .dll and FCUIPC, and if i get real brave i'll take a crack at setting every thing up with FCUIPC ---Louis -- we went to the Boeing factory at the last conference in Seattle

[Pete Dowson]

we went to the Boeing factory at the last conference in Seattle

Oh, right. Hi! My memory is failing me these days. I don't remember much from that long ago!

Regards

Pete