Flaps on 737

Hi,

I encountered a strange problem lately: When I move my flaps lever, the lever settings do not correspond any longer to the actual flaps position and to the standby instruments flaps pos indicator.

I have programmed the flaps indicator years ago, and for years my lever controlled the flaps perfectly. All of a sudden, flaps 2 results in no flap movement, flaps 5 makes my flaps go to pos. 2, flaps 15 gives me flaps pos. 5 and so on.

I have not made any changes to the code for my EPIC I/O system or in the aircraft files used by PM or in the GC software itself.

Anyone has an idea what might have caused this miss-match between my lever pos and the flaps pos in FS and PM?

Any comments are appreciated

Regards, Hans


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Hello, Hans.

Maybe a problem with your first microswitch. How are they wired?

Jim.

Hi Jim,

no, it's not the switches. They are all wired individually and my epic code sets the corresponding value in the flaps offset once a switch is activated. So the third microswitch should always activate the third flaps position, etc.

What I find strange is that I have this issue eventhough I made no changes in my setup...

Regards, Hans

Have PM's ini files got corrupted by a system crash or something similar?

Hans,

I took a stab at the most obvious thing; but, I'd have been quite surprised if you'd missed that.

Strange indeed.

Jim.

I'll do some testing, maybe tomorrow.
Once I find the culprit, I'll let you Know...

All the best,
Hans