New FSUIPC user having issues with FSX

[smokeywood]

Greetings & Salutations:

 

I have done a lot of reading on this forum as well as the Flightsim

forum about FSUIPC and that made me decide to get the paid

version. I then did the install and found all the documents and

printed out the user manual and spent a lot of time reading

before I started to make use of the program.

 

I have set up several aircraft profiles and had success using them

in the Free Flight portion of FSX however if I try to fly a FSX mission

it seems that I can not control the aircraft. This does not apply to

every aircraft and to every mission.

 

The one I seem to be having trouble with at the moment is the

Boeing 747-400 and flying the "Monsoon Approach" mission

in FSX.

 

I even deleted all of my aircraft profiles and went into Free Flight

and did a complete new profile setup for the 747-400 and again

had complete control of the aircraft but when I went to the FSX

mission only the button controls worked but none of the axis

controls, ie elevator, aileron, rudder and throttle would respond.

 

Maybe someone could point me in the proper direction as to how

to correct this.

 

Thank you for your help in advance it is much appreciated.

 

Gene Miller

[Pete Dowson]

... and again

had complete control of the aircraft but when I went to the FSX

mission only the button controls worked but none of the axis

controls, ie elevator, aileron, rudder and throttle would respond.

 

I've never heard of any problems specifically with missions. As far as FSUIPC is concerned there's no change, it is completely unaware of them.

 

Do you have any assignments for general use -- i.e not related to any profiles? Normally basic flight controls like elevator, aileron and rudder would be assigned for general use and calibrated to suite your controls. I know the calibration might be a little different for, say, fighter or stunt planes than large airliners, to be more responsive, but even then such differences are normally catered for in the aircraft modelling and there's no need for differences in your control assignments or calibrations.

 

Perhaps the aircraft name used in the missions is different and there are no assignments for those controls when you select the mission?

 

In order for me to help further, could you please repeat the test, first the same aircraft but without the mission, then with the mission. Then close FS down. Go to the FS Modules folder and finde these two files:

 

FSUIPC4.LOG and

FSUIPC4.INI

 

You may need to change Windows Explorer options to see the full filenames as by default it will hide the filetype part from you -- there are instructions in the FSUIPC docs. Otherwise Log files will be listed simply as text files and INI as configuration settings.

 

Both files are text files, so just load them into a text editor like Notepad, then cut and paste their complete contents into a message here. Use the <> button above the edit area to create a place to paste them.

 

Regards

Pete

[smokeywood]

Thank you for the quick reply.

 

I will do the tests as you requested.

 

It may be later today as I usually do not have time to

do any flight sim until in the evenings.

 

Again thank you for your response and I will post the info

as soon as I have it available.

 

Gene

[smokeywood]

Greetings & Salutations:

 

Pete I want to thank you for you help this morning and also

want to apologize for wasting some of your time.

 

As I said I am very new to both your program as well as FSX and

as I was following your suggestions I discovered a mistake that I made

that has me very embarrassed.

 

As I said the controls worked perfectly when I preformed a free flight and

then I selected the mission that I was having difficulties with and low and behold

after I read for I would guess the 10th or 15th time I seen the mission starts with

the aircraft on autopilot and it was up to me to disengage and when I did all

this were working properly.

 

I am so sorry for jumping the gun and posting here and I really appreciate

your help.

 

Gene   

[Pete Dowson]

Greetings & Salutations:

 

Pete I want to thank you for you help this morning and also

want to apologize for wasting some of your time.

 

As I said I am very new to both your program as well as FSX and

as I was following your suggestions I discovered a mistake that I made

that has me very embarrassed.

 

As I said the controls worked perfectly when I preformed a free flight and

then I selected the mission that I was having difficulties with and low and behold

after I read for I would guess the 10th or 15th time I seen the mission starts with

the aircraft on autopilot and it was up to me to disengage and when I did all

this were working properly.

 

I am so sorry for jumping the gun and posting here and I really appreciate

your help.

 

Gene   

 

 

No problem. Glad it was so easy! ;-)

 

Pete