Fsuipc vs. throttle slider

[Gh3003]

Hello -

I have a thrustmaster hotas warthog throttle and stick.

On the throttle - on the right of the main throttle levers its a slider.

I want to assign this slider to the spoiler (airbrake) lever in the PMDG 747. I managed to connect it, but the reaction is not quite correct.

When i move the lever the lever in the cockpit moves fully up and down, but it varies which move on the slider on my throttle. I want it to go fully backwards when i move my slider down, and full forward when i pull my throttle slider up.

I played with the settings, but is not able to fix this properly.

My settings in the FSUIPC options and settings under "axis alligment" is like this:

Control sent when range entered: spoiler inc.

Control to repeat whilst in range: checked

Control sent when range exited: spoiler dec

Both parameters set to 50000

Best regards from Gunnar

[Pete Dowson]

On the throttle - on the right of the main throttle levers its a slider.

I want to assign this slider to the spoiler (airbrake) lever in the PMDG 747. I managed to connect it, but the reaction is not quite correct.

When i move the lever the lever in the cockpit moves fully up and down, but it varies which move on the slider on my throttle. I want it to go fully backwards when i move my slider down, and full forward when i pull my throttle slider up.

 

And what does it do instead?

 

I don't know the 747 very well, being a 737 guy, but mostly Boeing's speedbrake/spoiler lever has just 4 positions. Intermediate positions might be sort-of settable but aren't really used. There's 'down' (stowed), 'armed', 'flight detente' and the fully deflected ground setting which only happens on landing -- you can't raise them right up when flying, only to the flight detente.

 

Where there is some continuous adjustment is between the armed position and the flight detente, but, at least on the 737, you are really supposed to either have them down altogether whilst flying, or in the flight detente position. The supports aren't strong enough to guarantee no damage in intermediate positions.

 

Control sent when range entered: spoiler inc.

Control to repeat whilst in range: checked

Control sent when range exited: spoiler dec

 

Why are you using a "range' with spoiler inc and dec controls when there's a perfectly good spoilers axis you can assign to on the left, with a calibration facility which understands things like Armed position?

 

Both parameters set to 50000

 

Er, "both parameters" for what? INC and DEC commands don't use a parameter, they have fixed increment/decrement values. If you mean the axis input value, how does a "range" become defined by one number? How many of the 10 ranges supported are you using.

 

Sorry, but what you are describing makes little sense.

 

Try assigning to axis spoiler set, or even spoilers set, on the left hand side. There's no point in using the right hand side for axis controls. Its main use it to use axis controls to do non-axis type things, such as gear up/down using a lever.

 

Pete