Recently something 'strange' is happening with my B738 yoke - it tilts to the right by itself and I have to pull left on my joystick to fly level again.

I'm using Microsoft Force Feedback 2 and everything is calibrated - in FSX and FSUIPC and it doesn't happen with any other aircraft in FSX.

Any ideas why?

Recently something 'strange' is happening with my B738 yoke - it tilts to the right by itself and I have to pull left on my joystick to fly level again.

I'm using Microsoft Force Feedback 2 and everything is calibrated - in FSX and FSUIPC and it doesn't happen with any other aircraft in FSX.

Any ideas why?

 

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Take your FSUIPC.cfg file (in your root FSX directory) and place it on the desktop. Launch the sim and check to see if the issue happens again. If it does, delete the .cfg and start over. If the issue returns, put the .cfg file back.

Thank your for your quick response Kyle -

I've checked and rechecked and have no FSUIPC.cfg file in any folder of FSX. I do have, however, my registered FSUIPC files in the MODULES folder. Perhaps your're referring to the FSUIPC.ini file??

Regards

Terblanche Jordaan

I have tried what you suggested with the FSUIPC.ini file - first to desktop > problem still exists and then deleted it > problem still persists. I've created a CONTROL KEY to reset aileron and for a moment the yoke centres itself and then it tilts to the right again. What is very strange, is the fact that it only happens in the B738 and not B777 or any other aircraft.

I have tried what you suggested with the FSUIPC.ini file - first to desktop > problem still exists and then deleted it > problem still persists. I've created a CONTROL KEY to reset aileron and for a moment the yoke centres itself and then it tilts to the right again. What is very strange, is the fact that it only happens in the B738 and not B777 or any other aircraft.

 

Yeah, it's the ini that I was attempting to refer to. So many different files are in the sim that I forget the specifics sometimes.

 

If you unplug your hardware (yoke), does it still happen?

joystick sensitivity slider all to the right, and nullzones all to the left? Also go through the key assignments list, sometimes the sim likes to assign a button randomly for joysticks, make sure no joystick buttons are assigned in the list you did not set yourself - David Lee

scandinavian13 Thank you for all the advice - the unplug was the first thing I did ... problem remained.

 

777200LRF All my control settings are exactly as I always have them but thanks for the input.

 

  WELL, if all else fails then reinstall ... and that is exactly what I did and ALL WORKS FINE now. After about 3000 hours in the PMDG B738 I am baffled what could have caused it because I've never had this before. Happy landings - thank you all. 

I have spent a few embarrasing minutes wonder why my yoke was twisted left or right until I realized I had changed the aileron trim inadvertently while setting pitch trim. My fat finger on the little 4-way button.