Approach and Lift Dump

[scottb613 1,188]

3 minutes ago, whamil77 said:

I will try to put together a tutorial on making FSUIPC Macros.  Maybe tonight...maybe this weekend.  I'll put it in the "Prepar3D Tips, Tricks and How To's" forum. 

Hi Bill,

That would be great - I think I can handle writing the scripts - what I have yet to determine is how to identify the variable (LVAR) in question - someone had pointed me to FSUIPC's logging capabilities - I've played around with them - but still haven't figured out how to get it to work...

Regards,

Scott

[whamil77 183]

I'll cover that in the tutorial.  It's actually pretty easy.  But Mr. Dowson writes like the genius he is and it's sometimes difficult for us normal people to decipher his user guide. 

[raymar 969]

1 hour ago, MindYerBeak said:

Ray,

 

-> L:ASD_390_LEVER_LIFT_DUMP=Set

 

Instead of "set"  write "toggle" so that it looks  like this :->  "L:ASD_390_LEVER_LIFT_DUMP=toggle".

 

Once you done that assign a button (let's say X) to the macro.

So now you hit X once and you extend the thing. You hit X again and you retract it.

 

Hope it helps some.

Yep, changing set to toggle did the trick. Works great now, but only in FSX:SE, does not work in P3D. Maybe I have to do something a little different for the LM version.

Regards,

Ray

[MindYerBeak 73]

Ray, works for me in p3d v3.4 tho. Maybe you got p3dv4.

[whamil77 183]

Macro tutorial is up in the P3D Tips and Tricks forum.

[FireRx 18]

Can you make a link to that tutorial please, 

I can't seem to find it. 

 

Thank you:)

[FireRx 18]

Found it, and thank you for the tut. Made the macro creation real esay. 

[macwino 14]

I'm running the Premier in P3D v4. The Lift-Dump system doesn't appear to be working properly. Deploying the Lift-Dump extends the Spoilers but has no effect on the Flaps which remain in the Full Flaps position. Cancelling the Lift-Dump retracts the Spoilers and has no effect on the Flaps.

I have tried deploying the Lift-Dump using the switch in the VC pedestal and using the fsuipc macro described in this thread. Both function as described herein and affect only the Spoilers. Is this a bug involving P3D v4 or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks, Robert

[FDEdev 955]

On ‎24‎.‎08‎.‎2017 at 6:30 AM, macwino said:

 Deploying the Lift-Dump extends the Spoilers but has no effect on the Flaps which remain in the Full Flaps position. Cancelling the Lift-Dump retracts the Spoilers and has no effect on the Flaps.

Why should the flaps retract? That's the way lift dump works on basically all planes! You want the high drag of the flaps to slow the plane down.

On some planes, (e.g. the HS125) selecting lift dump extends the flaps even further to aid with braking.

[macwino 14]

I'm not saying that the flaps ought to retract when I activate the Lift-Dump. What I'm saying is that I expected the Flaps to extend beyond Full Flaps when Lift-Dump is activated, as they do on the Carenado Hawker.

If I understand what you're saying, it's that on the Premier the Lift-Dump system is designed to only deploy the Spoilers and has no impact on the Flaps. In that case, it is operating as intended.

Thanks for the clarification.

[FDEdev 955]

3 hours ago, macwino said:

I'm not saying that the flaps ought to retract when I activate the Lift-Dump. What I'm saying is that I expected the Flaps to extend beyond Full Flaps when Lift-Dump is activated, as they do on the Carenado Hawker.

That additional flap extension is something very British, I'd say. Can't think of any other plane at the moment which has such a feature. 

[JRBarrett 3,121]

3 hours ago, macwino said:

I'm not saying that the flaps ought to retract when I activate the Lift-Dump. What I'm saying is that I expected the Flaps to extend beyond Full Flaps when Lift-Dump is activated, as they do on the Carenado Hawker.

If I understand what you're saying, it's that on the Premier the Lift-Dump system is designed to only deploy the Spoilers and has no impact on the Flaps. In that case, it is operating as intended.

Thanks for the clarification.

That's correct. On the Premiere, "lift dump" only deploys the spoilers - no different than the spoiler auto-deploy on most airliners.

On the Hawker, the lift dump does involve driving the flaps all the way to 85 degrees, but on that airplane it is not automatic - the pilot has to manually pull the spoiler handle back to the first detent, then lift it up and pull it all the way down to the lift dump position.

[CanAmRyder 30]

Just out of curiosity, does anyone have any idea how you would do this with Prepar3d v5?