Sometimes I wonder why, but I still mess with career mode from time to time. I like the firefighting missions, but when it's time to drop water on the fire, only pressing the Z key on the keyboard works even though I've assigned the spray toggle to a button on the yoke.  I even tried having Spad.neXt just send a keyboard Z when I hit the button, but nothing happens. 

If I'm not dropping water on a fire in a mission, the yoke button works fine. Even if I'm in a mission, if the fire's out and I drop water just to test, it works fine. It's only when I'm dropping because the mission wants me to that the button doesn't work.

When the mission wants me to scoop water, the button I have assigned to toggle the scoops works just fine, so it's only selectively ignoring the controller, it seems.

Any ideas for me?

 

Edited September 20, 2025Sep 20 by eslader

7 hours ago, eslader said:

I like the firefighting missions, but when it's time to drop water on the fire,

Curious, does hitting the fire with a water drop have any impact on the blaze?

33 minutes ago, Noel said:

Curious, does hitting the fire with a water drop have any impact on the blaze?

As long as your aim is good.

So far it's a bit unrealistic in that the fire is always small and the first drop always extinguishes it completely if your aim and timing is right.  But I haven't done many, so they might get bigger later.