Managing throttle?

[scottb613 1,188]

Hi Folks,

As for the throttle creep - we had this in the Lear a bit as well - one thing that seemed to help me - was moving all the respective controls to FSUIPC instead of using the sim... I have no real evidence to support this - lol - could be the placebo effect - but this is what I use now... I don’t have enough time with the Falcon to form an opinion yet...

Regards,

Scott

Edited November 22, 2018 by scottb613

[onebob 125]

Just testing it at the moment , seems a bit better with the keyboard F2 and F3 and in FSUIPC there is a button control for Throttle incr small and Throttle dec small which helps, also I have set the curve for joy stick axis  to -6, will see how that works.

 

bob

 

[JRBarrett 3,070]

4 hours ago, chevelle505 said:

Thats interesting! I will try that for sure. However, i can find a stable N1 to hold a speed..the issue is that the N1 keeps slowly climbing on its own..in other words..no matter what N1 I set..it wont stay there..and not by .1 or .2..it has varried as much a 3.5% N1 if i dont constantly keep adjusting power up and down.

 

Also, did you mean it will be capable of more N1 at altitude and takeoff? Because honestly..she doesnt need it...shes got more than enough power to blow through Vne lol. Either way..as long as it stays true to the real thing..anything to make it better would be great!

A change of 3.5 percent N1 definitely sounds like it may be hardware related in your sim setup. I have the CH throttle quadrant, and was aware for some time that the axes were becoming a bit noisy. This was most obvious when looking at the levers in the VC, where I could see some jitter in the position of the power levers.

This wasn’t a problem when flying auto throttle equipped add-ons, but became an issue when I started flying the Aerosoft CRJ a lot - which also requires power to be controlled manually in cruise. I was experiencing a similar problem with N1 creep. I finally disassembled the quadrant, and sprayed contact cleaner in the potentiometers, which helped quite a bit.

Still, I have not been able to eliminate the axis noise completely. I am saving up to purchase the new Virtual Fly TQ6 Plus six-lever quadrant which uses Hall effect sensors which should be rock solid at all times.

N1 in the real aircraft and in the sim is sensitive to OAT. My initial test flights in the Falcon 50 were done using the default clear weather theme, where OAT never varies over time at any given altitude. Recently I have started using Active Sky weather on my flights, where  OAT can change, and this has required paying closer attention to airspeed and power lever settings.