Wrecked all four engines today.
Wrecked all four engines today.
I updated an AFCAD for KFLL today, and had a problem with a new ILS on the redesigned 10R runway ( this is actually the runway I soloed on back in 1978, when it was 9R and a couple of thousand feet shorter. Anyway, trying to figure out what was wrong with the ILS, I used slew and the connie to move around on the runway, to see if the OBS needle was moving. I forgot to turn slew off, did something with my joystick, and the next thing you know the Connie was in the Ocean off Hollywood Beach....I quickly shut down P3D, thinking I could save the day doing this. I restarted P3D, loaded the Connie and went into the maintenace setting, and it said " All four engines needed overhaul: Guess the engines didn't care for the salt water bath. ... Back to zero again on my engine time.
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Re: Wrecked all four engines today.
Hi Bob.
Could you not go back on a previous saved flight dat file on the connie , to put it in last flight data.
regards alan.
Could you not go back on a previous saved flight dat file on the connie , to put it in last flight data.
regards alan.
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I have a backup drive, and replaced the L 049 folder from one made last week, so I only lost about 15 hours....alan CXA651 wrote:Hi Bob.
Could you not go back on a previous saved flight dat file on the connie , to put it in last flight data.
regards alan.
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Re: Wrecked all four engines today.
I DISABLE the joystick input for SLEW mode to prevent this sort of thing. I only use the keypad entries to slew the aircraft.
All it takes is a slight offset from center or a movement of the stick in SLEW mode to put the aircraft somewhere you didn't want it to be.
The keypad inputs are much easier to use ans control the slewing quite accurately.
Paul
All it takes is a slight offset from center or a movement of the stick in SLEW mode to put the aircraft somewhere you didn't want it to be.
The keypad inputs are much easier to use ans control the slewing quite accurately.
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Re: Wrecked all four engines today.
Bob, that is a lot of hours to loose. Consider writing a batch file to save your data. My batch file saves my data files, starts my Sim, starts ASP4 and other FS programs. The advantage is that with each sim start the data files are backed up with date/time stamp so I know which one I want if something like this happens.bobsk8 wrote:
I have a backup drive, and replaced the L 049 folder from one made last week, so I only lost about 15 hours....
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Re: Wrecked all four engines today.
Great idea.Gypsy Baron wrote:I DISABLE the joystick input for SLEW mode to prevent this sort of thing. I only use the keypad entries to slew the aircraft.
All it takes is a slight offset from center or a movement of the stick in SLEW mode to put the aircraft somewhere you didn't want it to be.
The keypad inputs are much easier to use ans control the slewing quite accurately.
Paul
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Where is the joystick assignment in slew mode, I don't see that anywhere?bobsk8 wrote:Great idea.Gypsy Baron wrote:I DISABLE the joystick input for SLEW mode to prevent this sort of thing. I only use the keypad entries to slew the aircraft.
All it takes is a slight offset from center or a movement of the stick in SLEW mode to put the aircraft somewhere you didn't want it to be.
The keypad inputs are much easier to use ans control the slewing quite accurately.
Paul
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Re: Wrecked all four engines today.
Menu bar- Options - Settings - Controls - Axisbobsk8 wrote:Where is the joystick assignment in slew mode, I don't see that anywhere?bobsk8 wrote:Great idea.Gypsy Baron wrote:I DISABLE the joystick input for SLEW mode to prevent this sort of thing. I only use the keypad entries to slew the aircraft.
All it takes is a slight offset from center or a movement of the stick in SLEW mode to put the aircraft somewhere you didn't want it to be.
The keypad inputs are much easier to use ans control the slewing quite accurately.
Paul
In the upper right of that menu select "Slew" and in the upper left select your controller(s).
Delete the assignments for the X, Y axis assignments (any other axis assignments as well if present)
That should do it.
Paul
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Thanks, never would have found that setting.
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