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Changing flap behaviour

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Hello.How do I change the behavior of the flap switch so that it behaves like a Cessna 172M flap switch?(ie, so that there are no pre-set stages. The switch only has 3 positions; Up, Neutral and Down and you hold the switch until you have your desired flap angle and then you let it go)Thanks,Stuart

Pretty sure you cannot set a variable flap switch in FSX. Most developers just use many small increments, like 5 degrees.

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Hello.How do I change the behavior of the flap switch so that it behaves like a Cessna 172M flap switch?(ie, so that there are no pre-set stages. The switch only has 3 positions; Up, Neutral and Down and you hold the switch until you have your desired flap angle and then you let it go)Thanks,Stuart
Are you talking about the real-life aircraft or an MSFS model of it ?Because in MSFS, flaps positions are only discrete, with the final angle per position defined in the FDE (.air file and/of aircraft.cfg). With a maximum of 10 discrete position.The speed with which the flaps change from one position to the next/previous (both visible/ flightdynamics-wise)is also set in the FDE.It's possible that a clever modeller "mimicks" a contiguous push&hold flaps increase/decrease switch, but the actual end result will always be that the flaps "snaps" to one of (max) 10 flaps positions.Unless that model uses a complete private implementation (both visible/flightdynamics-wise) of flaps; theoratically possible, but I've never heard of such a model.Rob
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Are you talking about the real-life aircraft or an MSFS model of it ?
Hi. The example I've given is of the real 172M (172P onwards have the incremental switch like in MSFS) but I'm only really using a real example because I was having difficulty trying to describe what I wanted to do in MSFS. The only real reason I want to do this is because I want to make my own controller yoke and that style of switch would be much easier to implement.Thanks,Stuart

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