Help with FSUIPC6 P3D 5.3 saitek

[Blaster254]

If this has been asked before, my apologies and please point me in the right direction. 
 

mad simole as I can put it. PMDG 747. I have the saitek yoke and additional throttles. All four engines are assigned. Reversers in the buttons settings. The issue is whenever copying setting for another 747 or starting a new flight. Throttle 4 is the culprit. The calibration is out and automatically has reversers set even at idle. If I try to use the calibration page, it gives up completely. Now the interesting thing is that after landing, harmony is once again restored and it works fine.

 

I’ve had this issue for ages. Tried to figure it out. I cannot. 
 

If I could get some help please

 

Ryan

[John Dowson]

49 minutes ago, Blaster254 said:

If I try to use the calibration page, it gives up completely.

What do you mean by this? Please give details.

50 minutes ago, Blaster254 said:

The issue is whenever copying setting for another 747 or starting a new flight.

How are you doing this? What do you mean by "another 747"?

Can you please attach your FSUIPC6.ini file so that I can see your settings. Also a log file showing your issue would be useful, with logging for Events and Axis controls enabled. The log file will probably be quite large so will need compressing/zipping.

John

[Blaster254]

On 4/27/2023 at 2:27 PM, John Dowson said:

What do you mean by this? Please give details.

How are you doing this? What do you mean by "another 747"?

Can you please attach your FSUIPC6.ini file so that I can see your settings. Also a log file showing your issue would be useful, with logging for Events and Axis controls enabled. The log file will probably be quite large so will need compressing/zipping.

John

John, apologies. I was a little rushed. Will upload today 

[Blaster254]

Here's the ini file. What i meant by another is when i copy the settings to another PMDG 747.

 

Thank you for looking at this. Much appreciated. Will forward a log file as soon as one is compiled.

Kind regards

Ryan

FSUIPC6.ini

[John Dowson]

31 minutes ago, Blaster254 said:

What i meant by another is when i copy the settings to another PMDG 747.

But why would you want to do this? Why do you have several profiles for the 747? You only need separate profiles if the controls/assignments are different - they should be the same in all 747 variants, so you should only need one profile. Usually you would add an aircraft to an aircraft profile rather than creating a new profile.  And rather than adding each livery, you should change the names used in the profile section, so if you change:

Quote

[Profile.D-ABYC]
1=PMDG 747-8 Lufthansa (D-ABYC | 2012)

to

Quote

[Profile.D-ABYC]
1=PMDG 747-8

then that would match all 747-8 aircraft, or you could change to

Quote

[Profile.D-ABYC]
1=PMDG 747

to match all 747s, and you can even add the 757 as that looks to be the same:

Quote

[Profile.D-ABYC]
1=PMDG 747
2=757-200

There are slight differences in rudder/steeringtiller assignments, but I would have thought this should be the same for all 747 variants...

Similarly, you probably only need one profile for the 777.

[Blaster254]

Thank you so much. That makes sense. I assume by creating multiple profiles they are possibly conflicting?

FSUIPC6.log

[Blaster254]

And no I didnt want to do this but always have done. Oopsie! On it. One last Question. Should I delete the profiles in the INI and start fresh? It wont take long if i have to

[Blaster254]

Cancel last question. Got it. Thank you so much for your help

[Blaster254]

I think I've done it right if you wouldn't mind having a quick look

FSUIPC6.ini

[John Dowson]

1 hour ago, Blaster254 said:

I assume by creating multiple profiles they are possibly conflicting?

No, they shouldn't conflict as only one (the first match found) will ever be used. Just makes things a lot easier, and by using aircraft substrings, the same aircraft with different liveries will also match, and so saves you having to add an aircraft to a profile when you are using a different livery.

56 minutes ago, Blaster254 said:

I think I've done it right if you wouldn't mind having a quick look

Looks a lot better/cleaner, with one profile for the PMDG 737/777 and 757, and another for the PMDG 747.

Note that you were previously also assigning the steering tiller to the same axis as the rudder (which is common) but only in some of your old profiles, You may want to consider addung this back to both of your current profiles.

[Blaster254]

Agreed. That was a temp fix to a problem, which I believe was caused by me too lol.

 

thank you again for your help