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Yes, I have. What aircraft are you calibrating controls for?
The fear it was trying to kill me in a aircraft I have to pay for was real! Massive brown trouser moment as releasing AP put my too high trim straight to 100%, spin the trim wheel slightly and it went to -100% while I was in a nose down stall. Managed to recover it but a bit of working out, I think the bug may be related to VS not being 0 when engaging AP.
Any of them ... can't get throttle to work. Configures it as a button rather than a full axis. Basically gives me 0-100% throttle between the first 2 detents.
Also, landing gear / parking brake switches ... how do you get it to recognise on/off states ? I can do this via 3rd party software but not in MSFS itself.
edit. Managed to get the throttle working for light aircraft by switching off "virtual buttons" in control panel then binding throttle 1 & 2 to "throttle 1 axis" and "throttle 2 axis" respectively. This prevents them from being seen as "buttons". Still haven't worked out how to get switches to act as toggles rather than buttons though eg. parking brakes, engines, landing gear.
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Soldato
I've managed to grind myself up 300k now.
I did a mission, fortunately not a freelancer one, it gave me that old de havillan plane, was about a 30nm trip no problems, got about 1nm from the runway and still needed to turn and the ****** ran out of fuel!
Needless to say it wasn't pretty, I didnt want to risk gliding it too far, so made the turn, in hind sight too early and came flying over the run way. oh well, not my plane.
I did a mission, fortunately not a freelancer one, it gave me that old de havillan plane, was about a 30nm trip no problems, got about 1nm from the runway and still needed to turn and the ****** ran out of fuel!
Needless to say it wasn't pretty, I didnt want to risk gliding it too far, so made the turn, in hind sight too early and came flying over the run way. oh well, not my plane.
Ran out of fuel after only 30nm ? Should have just taken a glider instead
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There's a control binding to add fuel if necessary.
Soldato
Cheers yea, I can only assume that I think I might have accidentally left the flaps on slightly. On that aircraft there is a very low flaps setting like 5% or something, and I didn't notice. It was probably just enough to cause enough drag to use a bit more fuel than it should have.
Yes, this is correct. It's important to use the non-0-100% throttle axis. However, I still found that they can be seen as buttons when scanning for control input. So instead, you can manually select Throttle 1 Axis: Joystick L-Axis X and Throttle 2 Axis: Joystick L Axis Y.
I think my parking brakes and on/off switches were all natively recognised. They work fine in the Fenix A320 for example. I will double check later though and reply back here.
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Soldato
ffs.
Did a mission, landed, all good, stopped at stop short, skip to parking area, so did that, planed spawned, flipped over......
155k to fix it!
Did a mission, landed, all good, stopped at stop short, skip to parking area, so did that, planed spawned, flipped over......
155k to fix it!
OK, this theory was rubbish, I caught it early enough and recovered. I went to trim it again while flying manually and it flipped my Cessna. Crash.
Soldato
I'm tempted to get a head tracking/track IR kit.