Piston & Turbine Dukes

@Mustang For what it is worth I decided to to change the "Yoke" set up for the DC-6's.
4 mags and one switch, I removed the L,R,Both and Start...Then...I got really feisty and cleared out "All" electrical bindings...on both Wheel and Throttle. There are times I can't get my fingers behind the engine controls...like right after Take Off. So it may be a little "Old School", I just use the Mouse". And also the Lear 35 (PWS) just got an update and I noticed the landing lights would not go out at all, and that is with the above "No switches" set-up, SU-15 issue adding fuel to problem?

@Nicotine70 This is a Life Saver Thank You so much been pulling out my hair to try to figure out why all of a suddon it didn't work but with advice it works for me again Thank You

Quite to the contrary, I am shocked and disturbed that none of my beta testers caught this, nor did I. It looks like the scaling from the TBM snuck into the Duke at some point, and I never fixed it. Thanks for pointing this out!

I'd prefer one for Photoshop, or a combination.

And at -40 the two scales meet. Perplexing :-)

@Randolf said in Oxygen Leak and Alt Static Air:

@Kilstorm If you're using AAO and want to control it with axis, what you could do, is set the axis range to be from 0 to 1 and enable the integer checkbox, that way AAO will only send values 0 and 1 if the axis is below or above half point (assuming the variable for the oxygen knob takes values 0 and 1, didn't check).

Thanks. I will give that a try. The value is Boolean so I dont know what that means but do understand what you are saying so Ill try that and reply back.

@Randolf there it is. I knew i was missing something, Thank you very much

Super easy! It will be (L:var_PulseOxyPercent, number) in the next update. Thanks for the suggestion!

@Marionettework Rob has all of his resources publicly available online for all to see and use. However I do hope he’s participated for hands on reference for the aircraft and sound recording. As for the RNAV and VNAV, I think the aircraft only has advisory VNAV, but it is fully RNAV capable. It has also been retrofitted with GPS and will almost certainly be present. I’ve seen Rob’s plane equipped with a GNS430 in the lower pedestal beneath the autopilot, but in the walkaround of one of Raj Narayanan’s Starships, there appears to be something completely different down in that slot. I’m not sure exactly what goes there as in the manuals I’ve read it just shows a blank plate, so it might be something that can be customized. That said, I’m sure Nick has been in contact with both of them and I don’t doubt they’ve been happy to share all the bountiful info they have, so let’s hope he can get all those things done accurately.

Sorry for the late follow-up. The modelled cowl flaps were always open, they didn't budge at all, and they were matching what's visible on the tablet -> control issue.

While the audio cues for the electric motor gave me a false sense of working controls, FSUIPC interfered for SOME reason. I didn't have cowl flaps assigned to any hardware controls, but FSUIPC inherited the calibration settings for cowl flaps axes from another profile. When I turned that off (ie. when I reset the calibration settings for the unassigned axes), the cowl flaps started working.

Thank you, Nicotine, for pointing me in the right direction with the images of the open and closed cowl flaps. I never checked their state, for some reason I had this idea that the cowl flaps were internal and I hardly pay much attention to the outside of my planes unless the dev forces me to do a walkaround. I learned that I can actually observe the left-side cowl flap from the pilot seat.

@Maverick85 I have this exact same issue, sometimes it recovers and sometime it doesn’t. Completely locks up the sim and it’s super annoying. Have tried everything to work out what is causing it but still not found it.

@Randolf Definitely. It requires .cs file fromat, I suspected it won't be as easy as saving the script in text editor then renaming it to FILENAME.cs.

Currently browsing the forums to how to even create a script.... I never did such thing, used to modify existing ones back in the days for FSX and GTA:SA, but those were different times.

Anyways, thanks for your help, I will figure this out from this point.

MSFS default controls have 2 axes to choose from - one is 0-100% and the other just throttle axis. Suggest swapping to the other and seeing what happens?

Thinking about it, I was also playing with the numkeypad. Perhaps I hit something there that increased the bank angle? I'd hate to think this Duke has a major recall fault on the AP.

@Black-Square eh, I mostly just want them for the larp flying in the past, just like running just the KX-155s and KNS. Not much of a reason to care about ADS-B in MSFS as I don’t think it’s relevant but if it is, then I can understand including the newer garmin transponder unit. I mostly just want to see it as an option if such a thing can be hot swapped.

I've used this "feature" in real airplanes to hold the heading bug in a constant position relative to the aircraft's nose while the compass card rotates underneath (for example, to start a left turn before you've decided upon exactly what heading to roll out), but not I've never read anything that suggests this was the intent behind the "feature", of it was done purely out of mechanical convenience.

Cowl flaps have a significant effect, as does airspeed, ambient temperature, side slip angle, pitch, and even the extra load from the air conditioning compressor. Just set up in cruise and configure one cowl flap open, and the other closed. When all combined, these effects can cool/heat the cylinder heads by as much as 200°F.

@CoolGunS the problem may be that when you turn, your software also detects moving left/right, you could try to set the axes in your tracking software to limit left/right movement, and only keep rotation. I'm using trackIR original, and I don't have this problem when turning, although the left panels in the plane are admittedly a bit close.

So yet again I need to open my eyes! - tbh I downloaded both manuals immediately at the announcement from JF so never even looked in community :-)

Thanks!

ok - I will blame my reading fail on the hypoxia :-)

Just off to do another turbine flight - getting so much out of these aircraft!