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BrianThePilot

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Hello,

First of all, I have searched many forums for this and have tried everything and can't find a fix. Every few flights or so my yoke on only the PMDG aircraft will bank slightly to either the right or left. I have no idea what this is. I have the saitek pro flight yoke and have tried resetting multiple options through both fsuipc and others and nothing has worked. I've even tried my old joystick instead of my yoke and nothing has changed. All of my other aircraft work fine so I believe this is possibly a PMDG problem. 

If someone could get back on this that would be fantastic!

Cheers!

Brian McCumiskey

P3D V4.5, i9-9900K, RTX 2070, 16 GB 2666GHz RAM, Windows 10

Posted

Hi Brian!

I never ever got this problem with the MD11 or the 777. I use presently the Hotas Warthog with fsx and P3d set up, works like a charm as it did with my previous X52. I know it doesn't help and I hope you will find the culprit!

Chh

Cheers

Pat

MSFS - XPlane11 & 12- P3D5 - DCS - Windows 10 64 bit - Corsair One i140 - i7 9700K 3.6Ghz - nVidia GeForce TRX 2080 

Patrick Mussotte

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Posted
8 hours ago, bmccumiskey said:

All of my other aircraft work fine so I believe this is possibly a PMDG problem. 

I've never seen this, and if this were actually a PMDG problem, you'd see many similar reports, but this isn't the case.

Sounds like a hardware issue.

Kyle Rodgers

Posted
9 hours ago, bmccumiskey said:

Every few flights or so my yoke on only the PMDG aircraft will bank slightly to either the right or left.

Could it have anything to do with flight duration?

Frank Patton
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Posted

Another possibility is that you have a key on your computer inadvertently mapped to two different things, one of those being the aileron trim, or even the ailerons themselves.

I should add, this happened to me as well. For some reason, the keyboard assignments kept going back to default without me doing anything, so I had keys mapped to different views in Chaseplane as well as to the controls. Wrought havoc for a while until I figured out what was happening.

Walter Meier

 

Posted
2 hours ago, fppilot said:

Could it have anything to do with flight duration?

It does however only happen when I'm around an hour through my flight. . I've even tried with just mouse and keyboard and it still does it. 

Brian McCumiskey

P3D V4.5, i9-9900K, RTX 2070, 16 GB 2666GHz RAM, Windows 10

Posted
8 minutes ago, bmccumiskey said:

It does however only happen when I'm around an hour through my flight. . I've even tried with just mouse and keyboard and it still does it. 

My question was re:are you hitting that one hour mark in non-PMDG aircraft?

The only issues I have had with a Saitek product based on timescale were with a Saitek panel, which would go dark. It was plugged into the USB port built into my Saitek Pro Cessna yoke.  That issue was caused by Windows Advanced Power Management, which after much fraught I learned may have been reducing power or shutting off power to the device after what it determined was a period of inactivity.  There are related topics here in the Flight Controllers forum.  There are small apps that patch Windows Registry entries for Saitek devices, and it's also recommended to check settings for your Saitek devices in Control Panel, Device Manager, Human Interface Devices.  Locate for instance your yoke and check Properties, Advanced, and see if there is a power management checkbox there.  If so, unselect it.

It's a stab at it, but pretty simple steps and worth trying.

Frank Patton
Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; 
NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener.  
Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126
                       
"I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere

Posted
10 minutes ago, wsmeier said:

Another possibility is that you have a key on your computer inadvertently mapped to two different things, one of those being the aileron trim.

I've never thought about that. Let me try it. Good thinking

Brian McCumiskey

P3D V4.5, i9-9900K, RTX 2070, 16 GB 2666GHz RAM, Windows 10

Posted
Just now, fppilot said:

My question was re:are you hitting that one hour mark in non-PMDG aircraft?

The only issues I have had with a Saitek product based on timescale were with a Saitek panel, which would go dark. It was plugged into the USB port built into my Saitek Pro Cessna yoke.  That issue was caused by Windows Advanced Power Management, which after much fraught I learned may have been reducing power or shutting off power to the device after what it determined was a period of inactivity.  There are related topics here in the Flight Controllers forum.  There are small apps that patch Windows Registry entries for Saitek devices, and it's also recommended to check settings for your Saitek devices in Control Panel, Device Manager, Human Interface Devices.  Locate for instance your yoke and check Properties, Advanced, and see if there is a power management checkbox there.  If so, unselect it.

It's a stab at it, but worth trying.

Good thinking. I have the panel. Let me see what I can do about USB Power Management with that

Brian McCumiskey

P3D V4.5, i9-9900K, RTX 2070, 16 GB 2666GHz RAM, Windows 10

Posted
3 minutes ago, bmccumiskey said:

I've never thought about that. Let me try it. Good thinking

Do a search for "SaitekUSBFix.zip" for one example of an app. But do both.  App and Control Panel, Device Manager settings.

Frank Patton
Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; 
NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener.  
Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126
                       
"I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere

Posted
12 hours ago, bmccumiskey said:

Hello,

First of all, I have searched many forums for this and have tried everything and can't find a fix. Every few flights or so my yoke on only the PMDG aircraft will bank slightly to either the right or left. I have no idea what this is. I have the saitek pro flight yoke and have tried resetting multiple options through both fsuipc and others and nothing has worked. I've even tried my old joystick instead of my yoke and nothing has changed. All of my other aircraft work fine so I believe this is possibly a PMDG problem. 

If someone could get back on this that would be fantastic!

Cheers!

Do you observe this behaviour of the yoke (and thus, the aircraft) when AP is engaged or when hand flying?

Jim Plumridge

 

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