HP Fuel Valve control via Hardware

joncoughlin

Goal: Drive the HP Fuel Valves through CLOSED/START/RUN via hardware inputs (ideally my Honeycomb Bravo axes + reverse detent buttons)

Issue:
When I spawn in Cold/Dark my HP Fuel Valves are always in the OPEN state.
I manually move them with mouse scroll wheel to CLOSED, and then I use my mouse wheel to articulate them to START and OPEN during engine startup. But I would like to drive these with my Honeycomb Bravo hardware.

I have tried every Fuel Valve (nominal, 1, 2) binding available "On" and "Off" and "SET" to get them to articulate but none of those mappings move the valve models in the cockpit and I can't tell if they're doing anything behind the scenes in the sim.

I have ensured that none of my HOTAS equipment is mapped to any fuel or engine systems except for Throttle 1 Axis and Throttle 2 Axis, so I shouldn't have any other controls overriding my attempt to drive the F28 HP Fuel Valves through the Fuel Valve 1/2 commands (recommended bindings in the manual).

Has anyone had success driving the HP Fuel Valves with hardware bindings?

Mark

The following control assignments can be used to move the HP Fuel Valves between OPEN and SHUT:

SET ENGINE 1 FUEL VALVE
SET ENGINE 2 FUEL VALVE

If you're using a third-party software such as FSUIPC or spad.neXt, the following Lvars are used to control the HP Fuel Valves:

F28_PED_L_FUEL_LEVER
F28_PED_R_FUEL_LEVER

A value of 0 will set them in the OPEN positions. 1 in the START position. 2 for the SHUT position.

Hope that helps.

Mark - Just Flight

joncoughlin

@Mark Thank you!

I'm going to try and map them to raw buttons first, then I'll see if I can go through FSUIPC or something to get them onto my axis.

If I get this working well, I will see if I can make a blog post or video for other users