How Many Throttles Can I Map?

[David123]

Forum Members,

I am thinking of purchasing the Dornier DO X from the Marketplace. The plane has twelve (yes, 12) engines. According to what I have read thus far, I can set up one lever (axis) to control all twelve throttles in MSFS by going to "Control Options"-- "Power Management"--"Control Levers"--"Throttle"-- "Throttle Axis" and assigning one lever to "throttle axis".

My question is: If I do that will it mess up my throttle assignments in FSUIPC and, if it does mess them up, is there a way that I could set up throttles in FSUIPC to attain the same results?

I am using a CH Throttle Quadrant. It has six levers that I could possibly assign to throttles. The aircraft has no variable pitch (RPM) control, it's just throttle up and go (for lack of a better analogy).

Thanks

David McCormick

[John Dowson]

I have moved your post to the FSUIPC7 sub-forum.

33 minutes ago, David123 said:

My question is: If I do that will it mess up my throttle assignments in FSUIPC

No - you can mix and match assignments between FSUIPC and MSFS. Just make sure that if assigned in MSFS, then it is not assigned in FSUIPC7. To do this, best to create a profile with both an empty axis section and an empty calibration section, although you can calibrate some axes in FSUIPC7 when assigned in MSFS if you so wish, but you should always first try without calibration.

35 minutes ago, David123 said:

is there a way that I could set up throttles in FSUIPC to attain the same results?

The API provided by MSFS (and FSX, P3D) only allows / provides controls for up to 4 separate throttles, and a generic throttle control that should apply to all engines. So you can try assigning to the generic throttle control.

The aircraft itself may provided additional throttle controls for each engine, either via Input Events or lvars. If so, you can use those of you want to assign to 6 levers, using 2 throttles per lever. 

Can you control all 12 engines separately in the VC? If so, try using FSUIPC's logging facilities to see what is being used when you move each separate throttle in the VC. Try logging for Axis Controls first, then Input Events. If nothing is logged with either of those, try checking for lvars.

I guess it  may also/instead map the 12 engines to the 4 existing throttle controls. If so, you can map 4 of the levers to the 4 separate engine controls.

[David123]

Thank you. I do have at least one unassigned axis that I could use for the throttles. The plane actually has no cockpit throttle levers as there was a crew of 10 and the captain would order an engineer to advance the throttles. As far as I understand it, the captain gave orders while the crew flew the airplane (kind of like a ship).

[John Dowson]

21 minutes ago, David123 said:

The plane actually has no cockpit throttle levers as there was a crew of 10 and the captain would order an engineer to advance the throttles. As far as I understand it, the captain gave orders while the crew flew the airplane (kind of like a ship).

That's interesting - I wonder how toy do this in the virtual cockpit with the mouse...