Hi all,Can someone provide some guidance on how to interface the flap control lever from an actual 737 cockpit (9 position) with FS2002.FSUIPC and a potentiometer seemed like a good idea, but the travel distance between selected flap positions is not constant. Is EPIC a better alternative?Thanks,Cary

Cary-Not sure what the exact set-up is on the real deal, but the one I've made has a mom-off-mom or (on)-off-(on) toggle connected to the flaps lever shaft itself (beneath the cover of course). As the lever is moved from one position to the next, the bat of the toggle conntacts a "bump" (small round screwhead mounted to the inside wall of the throttle quad box) so the toggle momentarily receives an F7 signal, or F6 if taking flaps out. Several of these "bumps" are arranged to fit whatever # of flaps increments one might need. Not perfect but an easy solution if using keyboard emulation.(Cheap too- the hacked keyboard I'm using was a throw-away freebie!) Potmeters are good for things that require gradual adjustments to be made, ie throttle, trim, etc. Switches are better suited for on-off situations or times when you need changes made in increments such as flaps! Potmeters I can't see as working well in this case...Good Luck,RD

Cary,You can use potentiometers, but not only one.Instead of you have only one potentiometer for all flap position, you will have a potentiometer for each flap position.The idea is to put all potentiometrs connected in paralel and, for each of them you have a specific value of resistance, these potentiometers will be connected to the system through switches operated by the flap lever installed at each flap position.The values of resistance for each position you can get using a potentiometer and a multitester to know the resistance for each flap position,so, if you know for each flap position the correspondent value o resistance, you can fix the potentiometers on that value,or if the resitance found is one of the standard value of fixed resitances you can replace the potentiometer for that position for one fixed resistance.Hope this help youRegardsAlberto Kunzel