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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: blkmgc on February 22, 2003, 06:12:07 AM
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Been having some troubles with trimming the B17 in the climb or in level flight. It seems to always want to veer to the right.I've calibrated in game and in windows to no avail. Any thoughts?
blkmgc
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Check the trim wheels on your stick; be sure they are centered. :)
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No trim wheels, using the keyboard to trim.The ball stays centered, but the aircraft pulls to the right.:confused:
blkmgc
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Check the wind drift next time and see if that is the cause. At certain altitudes it will really affect you.
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Ive actually been having the same trouble.
My stik is a didgital one.
Wind layer having nothing to do with it. I think my stik could be bad. Even though there are no spikes in the stik setings axis windows.
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The problem starts as soon as I roll. So I dont think its wind drift, unless the AC is supposed to pull to the right all the time to simulate this. The calibration window(s) show that the stick/ rudder are fine. And they work smooth as glass with all the fighter aircraft. :confused:
blkmgc
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all engines at same power setting?
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I'm assuming so. Are the engines independantly adjustable other than to turn them on and off? I know they are all running. I'll check to see if thats happening. Thanks
blkmgc
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Heres what I found.
When I start engines, they all have full power except for #3 or #4. One of the needles on the guage for those 2 (cant figgure which since they both start and stop and appear to be running)stays at 0 unless i hit the "p" key. Then alls fine till it shuts down again. Its like one of them is feathered, and thats what puts me in a right orbit with #1 and #2 overpowering the weaker #3 and #4. Is this a bug? or one of those forehead slapping "DOH's" on my part?
blkmgc
BTW- this makes for very hard rollouts heavy...doable...but hard.
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I have been doing some flight testing for an upcoming scenario and found the SBD pulled right on auto speed. I noticed it after about 4 sectors. It was off-line, I checked the settings and there is no wind set for any elevation. The SBD is a single engine, so there should be no problem with multi-engines.
Gunner
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try hittin shift E to make sure ya controllin all 4 engines as a unit
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Nope, rolled a b26 and it worked slick as a stick. Only ones I'm having this problem with is the 4 engines. OMG! hope this is fixed before the arival of the Liberator!
blkmgc
EDIT- bj, tried that. same same. I tried selecting all it did it. I even tried selecting individually and still got the same. Al the engines appear to be running fine (props truning ect) but when I give it the gas, one of them on the right side stays dead.:confused:
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I've seen the same thing with the b17 also. IIRC, the manifold pressure on 2 of the engines was slightly below the other two.
I did the ctl e and could not affect the manifold and get all four engines the same. They would all drop to zero at min throttle, but not all of them would go to max manifold.
Definitely caused a drift to the right. Haven't tried it on the lancs yet tho.
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Just tried the Lanc. Its definately #4 engine that has no throttle response. It starts and runs, but wont respond to throttle input.
blkmgc
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Tried re-installing the game, re-mapping all controlls. Still does it. Is this a bug maybe?
blkmgc
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hmm, never had any trouble flying lancs or anything.
well, it couldnt be your stick or the game since you've calibrated and re-installed everything.
it could be that you haven't selected all engines?
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blkmgc that sounds like your select joystick mapping on throttle is messed up. to test try renaming your settings folder then restarting ah, this makes a complete default configuration and you can just rename that folder back later so you won't loose any thing.
hiTech
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yes ..I have seen many sunsets..and many sunrises in Bomers..more in B-17s ....
I have had no problem of "hanging Right"...im thinkn its on your end....
BiGB
xoxo
P.S. HT & Crew...dam fine job in here...700ppl..and my game is still very playable..Good Luck and Keep it rolln!!!!
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hmmm..speaking of sunsets...dont see them anymore (unless, of course, one includes the clouds of black smoke blocking out sky from infernal Maw raids)
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HT I think you hit the nail on the head. After I did that, I ended up unplugging the throttle , and started to use the throttle slider on the stick. All of the axis for each engine except #1 were registering as inverted..hehe made for unique runway effects. I just checked the box where it says "invert axis" on 2,3,and 4 and it works. I just need to spend some time figguring out how to get the throttle to work, but I think I have the basics of how to map those now.
Thanks for the help gents
blkmgc
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damn, was just reading it and thought, hey I had this prob once, after trying to use mouse to fly so I could help a noob out, (give me an idea of what he was facing)
ended up with mouse wheel controlling throttle 2 and joystick throttle 1, 4 engine buffs went all a bit weird.
oh well, :)