I am trying to use a rotary knob on a WinWing Orion throttle base to control the throttle on the new MSFS FlyInside Bell 206. Each click of the knob basically acts as a button press. Button 83 for clockwise movement and button 82 for counterclockwise. I have it mapped in AAO to the HELICOPTER_THROTTLE1_INC and HELICOPTER_THROTTLE1_DEC respectively. The note for the command says it will increment/decrement the throttle by 1/128. What I am finding instead is that it increments/decrements in 10% increments. Is there perhaps a script I could use instead that would change the sensitivity to 1%? Scripting isn't exactly one of my strong suits.

Thanks,

35 minutes ago, MikeB said:

I am trying to use a rotary knob on a WinWing Orion throttle base to control the throttle on the new MSFS FlyInside Bell 206. Each click of the knob basically acts as a button press. Button 83 for clockwise movement and button 82 for counterclockwise. I have it mapped in AAO to the HELICOPTER_THROTTLE1_INC and HELICOPTER_THROTTLE1_DEC respectively. The note for the command says it will increment/decrement the throttle by 1/128. What I am finding instead is that it increments/decrements in 10% increments. Is there perhaps a script I could use instead that would change the sensitivity to 1%? Scripting isn't exactly one of my strong suits.

Thanks,

What value are you transmitting with the events? (the numerical box to the right of the event selector) 

If I read the spec correctly, it expects a value of 0 to do the 1/128th thing. Other values than 0 it will "normalize" - whatever that means.

Helicopter Specific Events (flightsimulator.com)

 

Edited December 21, 20223 yr by Lorby_SI

4 minutes ago, Lorby_SI said:

What value are you transmitting with the events? (the numerical box to the right of the event selector) 

Thanks for the quick reply. Both are currently set at 0. I experimented with setting them to 1 but it didn't make any difference.

Then it is probably something that the aircraft does. You couldn't do this any differently in a script, unless there is a different way to operate the throttle apart from the events (like an LVar, as there is in the 407, or using an AVar with a _SET event). 

Scripts could potentially look something like this:

Quote

INC-Script:
(A:GENERAL·ENG·THROTTLE·LEVER·POSITION:1,·Percent)·++·100·min·100·/·32767·*·16384·-·(>K:AXIS_HELICOPTER_THROTTLE1_SET)
 

DEC-Script:
(A:GENERAL·ENG·THROTTLE·LEVER·POSITION:1,·Percent)·--·0·max·100·/·32767·*·16384·-·(>K:AXIS_HELICOPTER_THROTTLE1_SET)
 

(Edited - the spec seems to be wrong. Value range is -16K to +16K for the axis)
Unfortunately I don't have that helicopter - maybe an actual user can chime in. I have no idea if that A-Variable will actually contain the throttle lever position for a helicopter. But there is no helicopter specific throttle variable in the spec, so it seems likely.

Edited December 21, 20223 yr by Lorby_SI

Thanks. I'll play with it some more and if I come up with a solution, I'll post it.