Has anyone mapped a turboprop condition (mixture on piston planes) to a joystick ??? The mixture lever doesn't work on turboprops and I can't find any reference for it in either the FS9 or FSUIPC settings...

 

Regards,

Scott

If you have an axis on the hardware (joystick), you should be able to map this to the condition lever with FSUIPC. You will need to "assign" first, then "calibrate".

Use FSUIPC Mixture axis for turbo's condition levers. If I recall, there are a few models that don't accept it. Like the F1 ATR. There I used switches for condition lever positions,

Thanks guys... Yeah - I've been playing around with it and the only "key" sequence I can get to affect the condition levers are [ctrl shft f1] and [ctrl shft f4] none of the other mixture commands or mapped axis seem to work... When I do use the aforementioned key strokes it adjusts BOTH condition levers... As you probably know - in order to do a proper start - you need individual control to kick in the fuel as the specific engine is spinning on the starter... In addition I have some planes with three condition lever settings - off - low idle - high idle... I'm ok with using keystrokes but I can't find anything in FSUIPC that seems to control the condition levers...

 

Would you have any idea what setting I should be looking for ???

 

Then I was thinking t try using a macro to select the engine I want to control... In the past - I used to be able to select an individual engine to command by pressing [e1] [e2] - what's weird is that e1 works fine but after pressing I am stuck with individual control of the port engine - e2 or e12 doesn't do anything... For this I tested with the default Baron... This a basic install of FS9 with hardly any mods yet...

 

Regards,

Scott

To reset your engine control selection I think you need first e to cancel individual engines and then e1 or e2 as needed. Since you have FSIPC check the manual about adjusting the key timing for key sequences. If you have a number of buttons available look into key sequence macros in FSUIPC for assigning sequences to hot keys and controller buttons including the repeat rate.

 

Under key assignments tab on the FSUIPC menu there are settings for various mixture combos including full rich and full lean plus intermediate settings. I've never tried it but if the mixture axis controls the condition lever you can set those in a few key sequences and also make them profile specific. Since you will not have mixture literally in a turbine engine maybe that is available for a turbo prop to control condition by the mixture assignments. I was looking at the King Air throttle quad as that is pretty standard.

 

I didn't have time to check those but just looked into key assignments.

Hi Ronzie,

 

I'll try playing around with it - appreciate the response... From what I've found is this plane - DA Cheyenne totally ignores any mixture commands - whether key strokes - or - joystick axis... The only two I've got to work are the ones mentioned above... I thought I might have just been missing something in FSUIPC - but - I went through it again and I can't find any setting that seems to refere to conditioner levers...

 

Thanks again...

 

Regards,

Scott

PS: My whole issue is I need to have either the starter or conditioner levers to be controlled by a joystick or keystroke - as they both physically reside on different screens.., so I tried going the other route and mapping the starter buttons... Catch 22 - of course they must have used custom code for the starters as well - as they won't respond to keystrokes either... Mouse clicks only... Arrgh...

 

Regards,

Scott

Does the Cheyenne have a custom setup menu perhaps by seen by enabling the FS menu bar? It might be a dropdown. PMDG works that way.

 

I found that for PMDG key assignments they superseded Win assignments if there was a conflict. If there is an assignment then you can use the FSUIPC button macros to issue it.