This post for Peter Dowson!!!

Hi Pete,

As you recall I would put my rev (button press F2 thru button set in FS2004
controls) and had to move the throttles a tad to stop Rev and Reset spoilers
to zero.

I went into your mod/FSUIPC joysticks in the game and played around with
setting the throttles with it. I just dont know how to do them. I would hit
reset and hit rev or center or full, etc. and still nothing is helping.

Does it matter that the Rev are working thru a button press here and your
joystick settings will not work, however, my spoilers are on a pot, and even
though I was able to use your tool, and they will now go to zero in flight,
I must still move throttles when ON THE GROUND to reset them to zero.

Any step by step plan here will be great.

Thanks

Randy

Hi Randy. YOu may want to go to Peter's forum and ask this question
http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html Peter does not allways check here.

Bob Reed

"Randy Eskow" wrote in message
news:405655.81049@wb.onvix.com...
> Hi Pete,
>
> As you recall I would put my rev (button press F2 thru button set in
> FS2004
> controls) and had to move the throttles a tad to stop Rev and Reset
> spoilers
> to zero.
>
> I went into your mod/FSUIPC joysticks in the game and played around with
> setting the throttles with it. I just dont know how to do them. I would

> hit
> reset and hit rev or center or full, etc. and still nothing is helping.
>
> Does it matter that the Rev are working thru a button press here and your
> joystick settings will not work, however, my spoilers are on a pot, and
> even
> though I was able to use your tool, and they will now go to zero in
> flight,
> I must still move throttles when ON THE GROUND to reset them to zero.
>
> Any step by step plan here will be great.
>
> Thanks
>
> Randy
>

On 3/29/2006 10:13:37 PM, Randy Eskow wrote:
>As you recall I would put my
>rev (button press F2 thru
>button set in FS2004 controls)
>and had to move the throttles
>a tad to stop Rev and Reset
>spoilers to zero.

Sorry, no, I don't recall (perhaps too many hundreds of other questions
answered since then?).

I don't actually understand what the above sentence means. "Stop Rev and
Reset spoilers to zero"?

>I went into your mod/FSUIPC
>joysticks in the game and
>played around with setting the
>throttles with it. I just
>dont know how to do them. I
>would hit reset and hit rev or
>center or full, etc. and still
>nothing is helping.

Oh dear. Please, you don't just "play around" and hit buttons at random! For
example, "hit reset" means "turn off FSUIPC control" for goodness sake!

Please find the USER GUIDE and look up Joystick calibration there. There are
numbered steps to follow. Just follow them!

>Does it matter that the Rev
>are working thru a button
>press here and your joystick
>settings will not work

FSUIPC doesn't care a fig what you assign to buttons. You do what you like.
Any my joystick settings work fine -- it sounds like you are simply "playing
around" instead of taking things seriously and following instructions.

>however, my spoilers are on a
>pot, and even though I was
>able to use your tool, and
>they will now go to zero in
>flight, I must still move
>throttles when ON THE GROUND
>to reset them to zero.

How do they become non-zero in the first place? It sounds precisely as if
they are ARMed all the time -- this will certainly have the effects you are
describing in FS. You need a good "zero" zone, not an ARM zone from one end
of the lever movement! Please see the default 737 throttle quadrant in FS
and look at the sort of position the ARM detente normally is. Everything
above that should give no spoilers -- you have calibrated them all wrong!

I assume, since you are only "playing around" in FSUIPC that you are not
using FSUIPC's much more precise facilities for setting the ARM zone on the
spoilers? That's a new facility in the current interim release FSUIPC 3.553,
all fully described with a documentation update in the Forum.

>Any step by step plan here
>will be great.

Step by step plans for calibrating in FSUIPC are clearly given in the
documentation!

BTW please use my Support Forum for support of my products. This is nothing
to do with Project Magenta and should not really be here. I can support my
programs better in my Forum and you will find lots of other useful things
there too.

Pete