La-5 throttle : Where am I wrong ?

[Solmyr]

Hi guys,

 

This is driving me crazy now : since I bought the La-5 FN, I can't get its throttle lever to work ; all other key bindings do work, (all buttons on my MS FFB2 do work then) but throttle no. 

I went into key/hotas bindings to see if there could be a specific La-5 FN throttle setting but didn't find any.

 

What am I doing wrong ?? 

[Wolfram-Harms]

Did you check in the sim SETTINGS, if the throttle is really assigned to "throttle" in the ENGINE SETTINGS

or MOTOR MANAGEMENT or however it's called in English? (Mine's German).

If it is, try to mirror the input - sometimes they are the "wrong" way.

[Juri_JS]

For me the engine throttel control in the A-20, La-5 and La-5FN doesn't work when engine auto control mode is enabled in the realism settings. Maybe it's the same problem you have.

[CastorTroy]

It's a bug. It should be sorted hopefully...

[Solmyr]

1 hour ago, Wolfram-Harms said:

Did you check in the sim SETTINGS, if the throttle is really assigned to "throttle" in the ENGINE SETTINGS

or MOTOR MANAGEMENT or however it's called in English? (Mine's German).

If it is, try to mirror the input - sometimes they are the "wrong" way.

 

Yes ofc all other planes throttle do function.

 

1 hour ago, Juri_JS said:

For me the engine throttel control in the A-20, La-5 and La-5FN doesn't work when engine auto control mode is enabled in the realism settings. Maybe it's the same problem you have.

 

I didn't try the La-5 since v3.001 but A-20 throttle works for sure.

22 minutes ago, CastorTroy said:

It's a bug. It should be sorted hopefully...

 

Good to hear. Soon I hope as we can't use that beast we bought. Is this only for a few people that it doesn't work ?

Edited March 29, 2018 by Solmyr

[Fritz_X]

3 minutes ago, Solmyr said:

I didn't try the La-5 since v3.001 but A-20 throttle works for sure.

 

I find that quite strange.

 

On my end exactly 3 planes have bugged throttle controls when using automatic engine control in the difficulty settings:

 

- A20

- La-5

- La-5 FN

 

Wondering why the A20 does not suffer from troubles on your end. Must be some different settings at least somewhere, I guess.

[Solmyr]

20 hours ago, Fritz_X said:

 

I find that quite strange.

 

On my end exactly 3 planes have bugged throttle controls when using automatic engine control in the difficulty settings:

 

- A20

- La-5

- La-5 FN

 

Wondering why the A20 does not suffer from troubles on your end. Must be some different settings at least somewhere, I guess.

 

I'll try to do further tests to see if it's related to auto engine management.

Edited March 30, 2018 by Solmyr

[Sporally]

So did it work out for you, Solmyr..?

[Solmyr]

So, I can now confirm 2 things, having exactly (I guess) the same problem as you :

 

- The problem is related to the planes you mentioned.

- The problem is SP only. I had tested the A-20 only in MP.

 

I didn't check all the planes though, so may be others impacted by this bug.

 

Note that in the A-20 I'm able to reach almost 900 RPM (when idle is ~ @625) even if techno chat doesn't display any throttle percentage. So the sim actually considers something acted on the throttle lever, but says nothing about it. Then there still is something wrong with the engine management aspect.

 

Note also that it's effectively not only a throttle problem, but the engine management that is faulty.

 

Hope it can help to fix this bug.

[Fritz_X]

20 minutes ago, Solmyr said:

Note that in the A-20 I'm able to reach almost 900 RPM (when idle is ~ @625) even if techno chat doesn't display any throttle percentage. So the sim actually considers something acted on the throttle lever, but says nothing about it. Then there still is something wrong with the engine management aspect.

 

Note also that it's effectively not only a throttle problem, but the engine management that is faulty.

 

Agreed!

 

I also realized that the throttle itself somehow works (the lever(s) still move when de- or increasing the throttle), but somehow no change in power is applied to the engine.

 

So my initial wording was not chosen well: It's not really a problem with the throttle itself, but one with applying power to the engine(s).

Edited March 30, 2018 by Fritz_X

[silver_841]

I was experiencing the same problem, but I just found a solution! With the engine control assist still on in the realism settings, I still had to use the automatic mixtures and supercharger control while in game (I believe the default command is Left Shift+M).  Then I could use the throttle as I had been with other aircraft. 

[Silent01]

With engine help on, on custom difficulty. The A20 throttle controls don't work. Can only control the rpm. Have to turn off auto engine management to control A20 throttle or the above mentioned aircraft. I guess it's been a bug for a long time now, as I keep finding people mentioning it over and over again. I just came across it today, and was looking for help myself. 

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

There was similar issue with the new spit on another topic when in normal realism mode... 

solution was to turn off RPM limiter...

 

you could try this?

 

 

Edited July 15, 2018 by spartan85

[WheelwrightPL]

 La-5 FN has a governor which keeps RPM constant and only adjusts prop pitch in response to throttle.