Today i decided to take the texan for a spin , i parked the aircraft at KBFI , ASN giveing weather , which was raining , started engine , after first checking in the hangar , that all was well .
Engine was ticking over badly , and eng running rough , shut it down , did another hangar visit , still all showing well , as its been a few weeks since last flight , i thought change plugs/oil , restarted eng , but still running rough , carb temp looked ok , but decided to try a bit of heat , this made no difference.
I then turned ASN off , engine slowly started to respond , once she was running correctly , i did a flight , parked up , shut down eng , restarted ASN , restarted eng , problem came back , i was confused as to why , clutching at straws , decided to look at FSUIPC control ini , found the entry for the texan , and found some strange entry , that was out of the ordinary , luckily i kept backups of every alteration to the aircraft fsuipc configs , and the first corruption of this entry happened 7 months ago , but this was the first flight in wet conditions since then , and its worked purfect in the dry , rectified the corruption , which was an extra line in the axis section.
This was playing havoc with the mixture control , since puting it back to what it should have been , my texan now works correctly .
I thought i would share this info , incase anyone else suffers from a rough engine in wet weather .
Now when i get some time i am going to have to go through my fsuipc ini file line by line , and check against every aircraft entry , for anymore annomallys , but i am still perplexed as to what caused this entry in the first place , because its impossible to get an entry like that , by useing fsuipc buttons/sws/axis setup within the program.
Regards alan.
