what keys for what

[Giggles]

What things can be bound to operate by a rotary dial on here?  

 

Do things other than camera views work with the hat switch, ie control range and target size for british sight?

 

rudder and elevator trim to a rotary dial?

[56RAF_Roblex]

I have my yaw trim, Gunsight range, gunsight width and rpm on rotary switches. Yes the hats can be used for anything.  You can have 'Left Hat' set to open your map or take a photo or reduce your gunsight range, set your trim or pretty much anything that takes one or multiple or continuous clicks. One oddity I know of though is the RPM on the PE2s.  The later model I have RPM set up on a rotary (the type that goes from 1-100% and holds a fixed value) but that wont work with the early model which must be done on a button or switch or a rotary that just registers infinite rotation one way or the other.   That matches with the real aircraft where one was done with a wheel and one was done by holding a button down.   There may be other things that were done in real life by holding a button down rather than turning a wheel.

[Giggles]

Is it doable to have the antenna wheel on the thrust master hotas work the FLAPS?  or just rig the flaps to a button for each position?

[LukeFF]

2 hours ago, Giggles said:

Is it doable to have the antenna wheel on the thrust master hotas work the FLAPS?  or just rig the flaps to a button for each position?

 

The flaps require a button or key press to work. 

[Giggles]

10 hours ago, LukeFF said:

 

The flaps require a button or key press to work. 

explain how to do combat flaps then?

[LukeFF]

19 minutes ago, Giggles said:

explain how to do combat flaps then?

 

Same thing - you press and hold the key until they reach the angle you want. 

[56RAF_Roblex]

The P51 has five specific angles that they could be set to so for those aircraft a single tap of the button would drop them to 10 then the next tap would drop them to 20 etc.   The Fw190 has three positions, Zero, Takeoff (13) or Landing (58) . The P38 will go to combat flaps if you tap the button briefly but holding the key allows you to set any angle. Something like a Spitfire will just go from 0 to 100% in a single tap as that is how the real one worked.

Edited March 2, 2022 by 56RAF_Roblex

[Giggles]

2 hours ago, 56RAF_Roblex said:

The P51 has five specific angles that they could be set to so for those aircraft a single tap of the button would drop them to 10 then the next tap would drop them to 20 etc.   The Fw190 has three positions, Zero, Takeoff (13) or Landing (58) . The P38 will go to combat flaps if you tap the button briefly but holding the key allows you to set any angle. Something like a Spitfire will just go from 0 to 100% in a single tap as that is how the real one worked.

Interesting,  i did some education last night with a spitfire . 

 

I admit my gear is bad, but i was having to mash and mash and mash and hold down F to get the flaps to go to 100 for an emergency landing. Still took maybe 30 seconds before they actually dropped

[56RAF_Roblex]

4 hours ago, Giggles said:

Interesting,  i did some education last night with a spitfire . 

 

I admit my gear is bad, but i was having to mash and mash and mash and hold down F to get the flaps to go to 100 for an emergency landing. Still took maybe 30 seconds before they actually dropped

 

Sounds like a problem with your keyboard.  They should drop completely in a couple of seconds.  Some aircraft rely on gravity to drop the flaps so if you try to drop them while too fast then the airflow stops them coming down until you are slower but the Spitfire uses hydraulics and should not be affected that way even if you try to lower them while flying too fast ie over 160.   Your emergency was not a hydraulics leak was it?

[FlyingH]

Sorry 56RAF_Roblex, the Spit flaps are pneumatic, driven by compressed air.

[Giggles]

Guess we all learn, and the emergency was missing a large portion of rudder

[56RAF_Roblex]

22 hours ago, FlyingH said:

Sorry 56RAF_Roblex, the Spit flaps are pneumatic, driven by compressed air.

 

Same difference ?    My point was that the spit undercarriage should have lowered in a few seconds as being a bit too fast would not have stopped it lowering.