I have started flying by using the checklist for the aircraft I fly.Included in that cheklist, is typically a certain degree setting for flaps, at least in the Maule.Now I have my flap increase and decrease controls, the key commands for them, assigned to buttons on my throttle through my Cougar's programming.So I press it down, I get flaps increase, press it up, I get flaps decrease.In the RV, this works beautifully. I can press and release immediately and get very fine increment movements of the flaps, both up and down. Or hold them in either position and they continue to lower/raise. But, in the Maule, a single press down most often gives full down flaps, then a single press up sometimes gives me about half flaps.Is this normal for this aircraft? Very hard to set my flaps appropriately in the Maule, per the checklist with it this way.On another note, am I correct in that I am seeing actually an opposite direction of up flaps, seems like with them in neutral if I press flaps decrease, they actually go up a little higher than the neutral position?Thanks for any tips , this flap thing on the Maule is bugging me now that I am going by the checklist.

Don, this might explain Maule flaps much better than I could. Reflex Flaps on Maule Orion M7-260C http://forum.avsim.net/topic/263130-reflex-flaps-on-maule-orion-m7-260c/

Thr RV6 has incremental flaps... meaning that the more you hold the button down, the more they deploy.The Maule has flap stops, click once it goes to the first stop, click again, it goes to the second, and again it goes to the third...I know someone will add the exact degrees of each stop on the Maule, I don't know them off the top of my head.

The Maule has only a few discrete flap positions, with each "notch" on the handle moving the flaps completely to the next discrete position. It's not like the electric flaps on the RV-6 that allow you to stop the flaps in any position.So, don't hold the flap button on the Maule, just click it once for each "step" you want to lower or raise the flaps.

Thanks Ramon, while I quickly looked over it, at least now I know the up position from neutral is referred to as " reflex flaps ".Amazing how that guy's description of how the Maule behaves in regards to flap deployment sounds so similar to what I feel in Flight.Yes the flap increments make sense, they corrolate to the degree/increments in the landing and takeoff checklist for the Maule, but dang I can't seem to control that aspect, push the button and the darn things go all the way down, not in incremental positions.Thanks,

So, don't hold the flap button on the Maule, just click it once for each "step" you want to lower or raise the flaps.

Thanks, but that is what I am doing, I am not holding the button, while flaps are in neutral - I press the button a single time, and the dang things deploy fully.That is my dilemma...

Yes the flap increments make sense, they corrolate to the degree/increments in the landing and takeoff checklist for the Maule, but dang I can't seem to control that aspect, push the button and the darn things go all the way down, not in incremental positions.

I assume you are using joystick buttons for flap control? As a test, what happens when you use keyboard keys to raise or lower the flaps? If it works right with the keyboard (one step per click), you need to take a look at how your joystick is configured.

I assume you are using joystick buttons for flap control? As a test, what happens when you use keyboard keys to raise or lower the flaps? If it works right with the keyboard, you need to take a look at how your joystick is configured.

Yes I am using the flaps on a 4 way hat switch on my throttle.BUT, it is using keypresses, I have assigned the appropriate key commands - F5 and F6 I believe it is, for increase and decrease, to my joystick file for Flight that is now programmed into my Cougar HOTAS.They are not mapped directly to the throttle and stick, it is the same as if I were pressing these same keys on my keyboard.

Guys: You might find this useful.FAA ApprovedMaule M-7 260C Airplane Flight Manualhttp://www.mauleairinc.com/pdf/flightmanuals/m_7_260c.pdf

As a test, what happens when you use keyboard keys to raise or lower the flaps? If it works right with the keyboard (one step per click), you need to take a look at how your joystick is configured.

Ah crap, you are on to something RoboRay - thank you very much for the suggestion.I just went in and tested, and even though I have the actual key commands programmed to those two buttons for flap increase/decrease, I also have them set to autorepeat if I hold them. There are two ways to mimick holding a key down in my Cougar software. One is the /a modifier, which is the aformentioned autorepeat. The other is the /h modifier, which is a hold command.Well I tested it, by using the actual key on my keyboard, versus the joystick buttons. By pressing the actual key, they worked properly. Apparently what was happening, is the first autorepeat was coming to quickly. When you press and hold say the F6 on a keyboard, it will first produce an F6, then a slight delay, then continue to produce an F6 repeatedly very fast, at the keyboard's repeat rate. So I changed it to the /hold modifier for the button press, which mimicks actually what the keypress does when held, which gives me the F6 on the first press, and if I actually hold it there is a slight delay, then many F6's are produced. By doing this, the slight delay has made it work appropriately when I do only the single button press! Obviously the auto repeat, without the delay, was throwing another F6 or two into the mix before I could release the button.Duh! Thanks for the suggestion, that one I should have thought of myself! No telling how long I might have been pulling my hair out on that one!

Great, I'm glad to hear you sorted it out. :Idea: