Unable to control landing gear with Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant
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@sdvpilot Do a "Search By Name" for GEAR DOWN" and for "GEAR" to see a full list of all mappings for this command. And also do it for all of your other controllers... Something must be preventing the GEAR UP command from working??
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@retiredman93231 Verified that no other switches from any other controllers are assigning the GEAR UP command. Also verified that there is no response to the GEAR IP command when it is assigned from a switch on another controller while the GEAR DOWN command does work from that same controller switch.
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@retiredman93231
Thanks I now see the notification in my email. I have run out of time for now but look forward to trying out the updates. I did also verify that only my 3 Arrows refused to respond to the GEAR UP command. Every other RG aircraft responded as expected. I am surprised they would release the update just before SU7 unless the just want to see what happens. -
@retiredman93231
I am stumped. I am experiencing the same issue with the Arrow not responding to the GEAR UP command variable with the new update. I simplified things as much as possible by removing everything but the Arrow Iii from my community folder and only powering up one controller with only one known working switch assigned to GEAR UP. The gear could be raised up or down with the mouse. However once down it could not be raised up by the assigned switch. Why this is happening strictly with the JF Arrow is truly bafflling! I really do not want to mess with my Official folder to see if there is some weird conflict there nor am I about to re-
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@sdvpilot There is one more thing that just occured to me that you should check... There is a Emergency Gear Down switch located between the seats, next to the flap handle. It is a three position switch, with the full Up position being the Normal position. The full Up position disables the automatic emergency gear extension system, and will cause the yellow light above the gear status lights to blink constantly. The Middle position enables the automatic gear extension system and will make the yellow light go out, while also allowing normal gear operation using the Gear lever. The full Down position of this switch will lower the gear by releasing the hydraulic pressure, and they will then stay down regardless of the Gear lever postion... which is the behavior you are seeing!
If that doesn't work, the only thing I can recommend is to open a support ticket with JF and see if they can figure it out.
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@sdvpilot I just looked at your posting above regarding expanding the Bravo functionality, and I noticed that you are using many unusual multiple command assignments... are you using this non-standard configuration while having these landing gear problems?? If so, I recommend that you revert the BRAVO back to the basic default standard command assignment configuration, and then test the landing gear lever commands again. These non-standard multiple command assignments might not be compatible with the JF Arrows.
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@retiredman93231
Thanks for that thought but I have pretty much found that nothing is keeping the gear down. With no gear assignment I can raise or lower the gear with the mouse. However with only the mouse lowering the gear it refuses to respond to a switch assigned to the gear up command. On the other hand if I raise the gear with the mouse and assign gear down to the same switch the gear responds accordingly. Only my Arrows behave this way.
I am waiting to see what SU7 brings to the table before submitting a ticket to Just Flight. -
@retiredman93231
I thought of the possibility of the other complex bindings possibly contributing to this behavior. So as I mentioned in my last reply yesterday this behavior persists with the Bravo and all but one other simple controller with a single two position switch powered down. I will have to check that circuit breaker though. Wouldn't it be nice if it was just that simple!!Getting back to the Arrow after installing SU7 I had another idea of what might keeping the gear lever in the cockpit from moving in response to the GEAR UP command variable. It was because I was parked on the ground! It was that simple!
On all my other RG aircraft the gear lever in the cockpit would move up and down in response to GEAR UP and GEAR DOWN commands even while sitting on the ground, and that became my lazy man test to see that the switch assignments were correct without taking the time to taxi and actually takeoff. That does not
work with Arrows! Once off the ground the cockpit gear lever goes up and the gear retracts in response GEAR UP command as expected.
However I do not believe this behavior is truly realistic. I do not recall anything preventing the gear handle in the RL Arrow from being raised to the gear up position while on the ground. It is the squat switch is that prevents gear retraction on the ground in that aircraft, not the gear handle itself. I have read that some aircraft may actually have a mechanical linkage preventing the gear handle from being raised into the gear up position. But not the Arrow.
