Engine Controls not working and some more

[ufetzer]

Hi Tomas,
I didn't forget to turn off the starter switches, the lights in the annunciator stay stubbornly on.

I am still fighting with my landing gear. The only possibility so far is to retract and lower the gear with mouse-drag. As I told you my gear lever worked twice before, but as it looks like, this was a fluke.

I set my takeoff power with my power levers. I can't find any illuminated "LAFX" or "RAFX". What means "static take-off power" anyway? In my PMDG-planes I can set "TOGA" for take-off, which seems to be the same thing.

The gremlins are still at work!

[Taguilo]

Hi,

Did you check this ? : viewtopic.php?f=105&t=11990

Regarding LG, if you map G key to Toggle Gear in P3D it must work.

Tomas

[ufetzer]

Hi Tomas,
Thanks for your quick response.

The mystery deepens. I am airborne again and I could retract the gear with my lever (FSUPC) like twice before, obviously no fluke. While inflight I could extend and retract the gear once more, any other attempt failed. The lever moves up and down, but does NOT illuminate any more. It looks like I am flying on battery power with generators off indeed. I have to check the voltmeter readings on my next flight.
BTW the mouse-wheel works, but the lever doesn't illuminate either.

I have to find out why the generators don't engage, that should solve the problem.

I could see that AFX illuminates in the RPM-indicators of the MFD after I undocked and magnified the MFD. No problen there.

[ufetzer]

Now it is getting really chaotic!
I quickly tested the voltages: Battery and both generators ok!
The generators therefore are engaged.

When I switched back to cockpit view, the attitude indicator of the PFD was frozen at 20 deg up, 30 deg bank while flying level. Speed and altitude indicators and the rest of the PFD worked fine.

?????

[ufetzer]

Hi Tomas,
Before I get completely insane, I am going to dump my download from ORBX into the garbage bin and buy a new copy directly from MILVIZ!

I read the post from ole.luehrs, that gave me the rest!

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Greetings

[ufetzer]

Hi Tomas,
After wasting a lot of time, some money and after a few test-flights, I have a fantastic, well behaved KingAir!
Downloading the product directly from MILVIZ solved all my problems.
I see, that quite a few people are viewing my post. To avoid confusing them, it may be helpful to close my post or take it "off the air".
Here are some concluding remarks:
1. Please try to solve the issue with the download of your product from ORBX.
2. I was chasing many phantoms and a little one with the generators. I found out, that you only have to reset the generators, than the lights go out in the annunciator.
3. I still can't turn off the fuel with the condition levers, but it works with a mouse-drag. There must be a better way to do this. As I wrote before, it makes sense, that you can't move the lever all way down inflight, but it must be possible after turning off the ignition.
I hope I have many happy landings, thanks for your help and patience,
Greetings-Uwe

[doodlebug]

PLEASE: IF YOU HAVE BOUGHT FROM THE ORBX DO NOT BUY AGAIN FROM US WE CAN RESOLVE YOUR ISSUES.
http://milviz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=12237

[ufetzer]

The gremlins are still at work!
I have to decide whether to go insane or dump the KA-350i, which I bought directly from MILVIZ after dumping the download from ORBX.
I had dozens of great flights, but only about half of them ended with a happy landing.
All my systems are working perfectly, but the landing gear is still driving me crazy.
The "G" key is mapped to a button of my yoke.
With this configuration the landing gear works always with all of my assorted other planes!
I can retract the landing gear of the KA-350i all the time after takeoff, but I frequently end up on final with the landing gear lever down, no green indicator lights and the landing gear stubbornly buried in the belly of the beast.
I uninstalled and installed (AV off) the plane a few times, checked for possible conflicts, found nothing and are now at the end of my wits.
Has anybody out there an idea what's going on?

[ccmh15]

Why do you map the yoke button to the "G" key rather than directly to the "Landing Gear up/down" P3D command(s)? You can do this either in FSUIPC or directly in P3D.

This way, the button also works when the P3D window is not in focus.

To me your problem sounds, like there's still something odd with the electrical system in your plane. Have you tried to manually close the GEN TIES when the gear won't move?

Chris

[Slayer]

The gremlins are still at work!
I have to decide whether to go insane or dump the KA-350i, which I bought directly from MILVIZ after dumping the download from ORBX.
I had dozens of great flights, but only about half of them ended with a happy landing.
All my systems are working perfectly, but the landing gear is still driving me crazy.
The "G" key is mapped to a button of my yoke.
With this configuration the landing gear works always with all of my assorted other planes!
I can retract the landing gear of the KA-350i all the time after takeoff, but I frequently end up on final with the landing gear lever down, no green indicator lights and the landing gear stubbornly buried in the belly of the beast.
I uninstalled and installed (AV off) the plane a few times, checked for possible conflicts, found nothing and are now at the end of my wits.
Has anybody out there an idea what's going on?

Does it work if you map the button via P3D ? P3D is ALWAYS in a window since V4 was released , whether you run in borderless mode or not. In Windows whatever window has focus will receive the key input.

Key inputs cannot be guaranteed to go through to the simulator if another window asserts itself. If you map a joystick button to P3D the input will go through unless some 3rd party software intercepts it. Not only that, without seeing how you set up such a G press in your software would it be possible to diagnose it. ( how long is key held? is repeat turned on? etc etc)

We cannot support 3rd party key simulators as they are not part of the P3D Software developers kit (SDK) Just because something works on everything else does not mean that it will work here.

[ufetzer]

Hi Chris and Steve,
Thanks for your replies.
I tried mapping my buttons directly to P3D before, it didn't work. I tried it again today, same result.
Steve mentioned " how long is the key held? repeat? etc.". I tried everything before without success, but I have the same suspicion as Steve:
The impulse time in my extremely overclocked system might be to short to trigger the expected response.

Here again is the hardware of my sim:

Windows 10 Pro v1903
ASUS Prime X299-Deluxe II X299 Motherboard
Intel Core i9-7900X 3.50 GHz water cooled, OC 31% , AI timing extremely fast
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super
ASUS HDMI 28" Monitors (3)
VS279 NVIDIA High Definition Audio
Samsung SSD NVMe 1Tb (3)
Samsung SSD 860 EVO 4Tb (2)

CH Eclipse Yoke
CH Quadrant
CH Rudder

CH Fighter Stick
CH Pro Throttle

I fly with three monitors, usually with the sim in the center, undocked gadgets on the right screen and Navigraph charts on the left.
My system is extremely stable, even under very heavy load (all ten cores clocking at >4500 Mhz) for example with ORBX True Earth scenery.

I will now try to chase the gremlins in a less extremely overclocked system.

[ufetzer]

Correction!
I wrote "gadgets", I meant "gauges"!

[ccmh15]

To cut it short - your problem is, that the landing gear does not retract, right?

You need to find out, if the problem is related to your button mapping, or you're having a problem in the simulated plane itself.

Does the gear retract and extend properly, when you operate the gear lever in the virtual cockpit with your mouse?

If yes, you need to re-check your joystick button mapping. Go to P3D controls settings, and map the "Extend / Retract Landing Gear" to the G key, and try directly on the keyboard. Make sure the lever in the virtual cockpit moves when you press G.

If the lever moves, but the gear doesn't, you're doing something wrong in the aircraft. Maybe you accidentally pulled the gear lever fuse (although I'm not sure if this is even simulated) Do you have all electrical busses powered?

I'm sure it's just a small thing, and you'll be able to work it out!

Cheers,
Chris

[Taguilo]

If the lever moves, but the gear doesn't, you're doing something wrong in the aircraft. Maybe you accidentally pulled the gear lever fuse (although I'm not sure if this is even simulated)

It is simulated, indeed. Pulling the gear lever fuse is part of Emergency Gear Extension procedure.


Tomas

[ufetzer]

Guten Morgen Chris,

Thanks for your reply from Vienna, the Steffl and the Prater!

I meanwhile found out, that overclocking isn't my problem.

I mapped my gear before to the "G" key, but now I am directly mapping to P3D "gear up" and "gear down", it doesn't make a difference.

I always can retract the gear after takeoff in either case. During the climb phase I can lower and retract the gear repeatedly without problems.

The difficulties emerge during approach.
After establishing my landing configuration at <160 kts, I try to lower the gear.
The lever in my virtual cockpit moves always into the down position, whether I push the mapped "down" button, the "G" key on the keyboard or pull the lever with the mouse. The gear itself may or may not extend, it is totally unpredictable.

That is where I am standing right now, moving in circles.

Maybe you or Tomas can shed some light on the mystery?