Calibrating Skalarki TQ

[michael1508]

Hi all, how do I calibrate the Skalarki TQ in Jeehell? I have calibrated it within the Profiler. But I can not see the axis wihin fmgsconfig. Thanks, Michael

[digidax]

Start C:\A320FMGS\FMGS Server\FMGS_Config.exe then Start Skalarki IO Profiler and Run the Jeehell Plug and Play profile. Klick into the boxes of the config form and move e.g. on thrust leaver, Axis 60 or 59 will detected.

[michael1508]

tried it. But no axis is detected. The TQ is registered in the Windows Device Manager and it's working fine in the Profiler. I have calibrated and saved the axis in the Profiler. But in Jeehell they are just not detected. I have also reinstalled Jeehell, no affect.

[michael1508]

solved! Not sure, what the issue was. I reinstalled the JL FSUIPC module, after I was reading in another thread, that it's not needed. Then tested again and this time (unlike many before) the axis was discovered! Thanks! Can finally enjoy my major invest now! :-)

[jeehell]

FSUIPC is used by skalarki only, not by my soft to be clear, this is maybe what misled you...

[bbruechmann]

JL, may be i missed something but in which Situation is your FSUIPC module needed then? Because it exists there must be a meaning of it :)

[michael1508]

I now have another issue. Wanted to take off for the first time with my new Skalarki TQ, but the N1 power never went beyond 25. The indicator for the selected thrust (blue line) was moving correctly. Only the actual thrust (green) did not go above 24.8 or 25%. When reaching 25, the engine sound fades away and only returns when I move the levers back to idle. Is this a hardware or interface issue between JL and Skalarki? Calibration issue? Or am I just missing something from flight techniqe which I didn't have to take care about with my old simple Saitek throttle?

[bbruechmann]

Hi Michael, i have the same issue, but it´s not only that. I figured out, if you set engine anti-icing to ON, the engines are spooling up but in steps and so the engine sound does. I thought i could even start my leg with engine anti-ice on, but if the aircraft has accelerated on the take-off run to V2 it rotates once you pull the stick, but it does not lift from the ground, like if the wings where just cut off from plane. Even if i put the plane via slew mode up to, lets say, 3000 feet and switch off slewmode it falls down like a stone onto ground. If this happens and i pause the sim instead, switch to another vehicle in the menue and after it has loaded, back to Jeehell A320, the uplift is back as normal. Of course i´ll get a lot of warning sounds once i have unpaused the sim again and it takes a couple of seconds until FMGS is back in business, but with luck i keep the ac in the air and been able to re-activate the FCU, autothrottle etc. JL hass told me to put the line "AUTOICING=OFF" into the aicraft.cfg in the performance folder of the FMGS and that worked the last couple of times, but since i have updated to Version 53.2 the issue is back even with the autoicing off. The most annoying is that you have allready passed 30 to 45 minutes of setting up the aircraft for the leg, programming the MCDU, let the passengers board, get the pushback from the gate, start the engines and then you have to prey that the engines spool up as normal. But i´am happy, that i´am not the only one with this weird issue, so it seems there must be a culprit in the FMGS.

[bbruechmann]

Jean-Luc, we would really appreciate your help in this, with an idea what could cause this behavior. A while ago i thought it could be a simconnect issue and so i have de-installed and installed it again. After that everything was fine and i can´t remember to hit that issue again. But after the Update to FMGS V 53 it came back. The same in V53.1 and 53.2. Could it be an issue with simpatcher or simmconnect that the simconnect client gets corrupted somehow once we update to a newer version of FMGS?? Or something like this.

[jeehell]

I don't think anything got corrupted. It could be ASP3D works slighlty differently and sends wrong icing data, or even adds its own icing simulation. I can't really report having the issue my self so it's hard to know...

[michael1508]

Hi Jean-Luc, I did a flight yesterday, and everything was ok. Then repeated today and experienced exactly, what I had the day before and what Bernd described: the engine spools up but no thrust greater 50% N1- after activating Anti Ice thrust came up, rotating at V2, but the aircraft didn't lift. Showing message "Thrust Lever not set". I didn't use AS. And I have not changed anything on my configuration over the last trials. I have no clue, why it was working yesterday. Please look into it, or let us know, how we can help. There is definitely something wrong. I will try to reproduce with another axis assigned to throttle tomorrow and report back.

[michael1508]

After adding "Autoice=no" in the aircraft.cfg in the PERF/CFM folder the throttle was behaving correctly. That's already very good, as I can finally fly now. But it's still a workaround...

[bbruechmann]

JL, the issue that the aicraft didn´t lift at take-off when reached V2 with correct configuration was randomly happen allready in P3D V4. So my first suspicion that may be differences of the weather model in P3D V5 are causing the issue seem to be not likely. The same seems to apply to Actice Sky, because Michael don´t use it but i do and experience same behavior. I´ve have also tested with EA on and off in P3D but that makes no difference. The lift off issue could be related to icing Simulation aswell like the issue with the engines, but the spool up issue of the engines was first ever noticed from my side since FMGS V53. When i was yesterday hitting both issues i´ve did some systematical test while stand on the runway fully configured "take-off, no blue!" and without the workarround in the config. I have changed the Aircraft to a P3D native one and back to the A320 - no difference. Next i changed in the FBW module to the IAE model and back to CFM to force the reload of the Performance coefficents - no diff. I stopped Skalarki profiler and started it again - no diff. I stopped FMGS-Server only and restarted it - no diff. I reloaded the Hardware connect module - no diff. Then i stopped the FSX-connect module and started it again and after that the engines seemed to spooling up as they did. At least they spooled up to 70 % N1. Then i tried to take off in TOGA but while the take-off run the engines spooled up to 75 % max but the ac hardly reached V2 at the end of the runway but then the lift-off issue was still present. At that Point i paused the sim, changed to a P3D native ac and back to the A320, unpaused the sim and the lift was back in Business. For me it seems the culprit must be in the relation of the FBW module and the FSX-connect module. May be this helps you

[Jokast]

Have the same issues but with no skalarki modules... the aircraft does not rotate...

[bbruechmann]

did you added the autoice=no in the config?

[Jokast]

Yes I added autoice=no

[Jokast]

Today I testet my Aircraft without AsP3d Beta 4 startingEverything works fine... it seems an Issue with ASp3d

[digidax]

Today I testet my Aircraft without AsP3d Beta 4 startingEverything works fine... it seems an Issue with ASp3d Have tested yesterday with P3Dv5HF1, ASp3d Beta 4, JeeHell B53.2.0: Location: EDDM (Munic), Conditions: Rain, SAT +10°C Setup: ENG Anti Ice => switched OFF Result: No take off possible, engines are spooling very slowly up, no acceleration Then set ENG anti Ice to ON, taxiing back to the beginning of the RWY, take off without any problems. Passing FL 20, clear sky, climb with 1800 ft/min, switch ENG anti ice => OFF Result: during CLB phase power loss of both engines Action after negative sinking rate => switch ENG anti ice => ON Result: within around 20 sec, both ENGINE stabilized and continue climb. letting the rest of the flight ENG anti ice ON, the environment may forgive me the higer fuel consumption.

[bbruechmann]

Setup: ENG Anti Ice => switched OFF Result: No take off possible, engines are spooling very slowly up, no acceleration .Add the line "Autoice=no" into the aircraft.cfg in the folder "\A320FMGS\FMGS Server\PERF\CFM", that should solve the issue of the engines not spooling up