F-18 flaps/airbrake behaviour after update

steveiy · August 11, 2018 at 4:36 PM

Hi,

After an update, I notice that the airbrake in the F-18, which I have mapped on a slider, also causes the throttle to move. So at max airbrake I am now also at max throttle. I have looked over the controls in "settings" and the two controls are definitely mapped to separate axes. The joystick is a MS Sidewinder.

Secondly, I notice that it is not possible to deploy full flaps any more. The button I have assigned to flaps now just toggles between half flaps and none.

steveiy · August 11, 2018 at 5:07 PM

Also the speed display in the HUD shows 48kt when the aircraft is stationary.

drhotwing1 (IPACS) · August 11, 2018 at 5:43 PM Official Post

Delete the gc-map.mcf file located in your documents\Aerofly FS 2 root folder. This file controls your button/axis mappings so you will have to redo them after you delete the file, but it should resolve your problem.

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · August 11, 2018 at 7:26 PM Official Post

Quote from steveiy

Also the speed display in the HUD shows 48kt when the aircraft is stationary.

Like the real aircraft.

steveiy · November 3, 2018 at 10:32 PM

It was some time before I was able to test this - apologies.

I deleted the gc-map.mcf file, and confirmed that all my settings had been deleted. I remade the settings, and observe the following:

1. it is still not possible to deploy full flaps in the F-18

2. with air brake mapped to a slider axis, that axis still also causes the throttle to advance

The slight difference with #2 is that I can at least reduce throttle after I have deployed the airbrakes, by blipping the "real" throttle axis up and down.

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · November 3, 2018 at 10:53 PM Official Post

Full flaps in the F18 only happen at low speeds ... might the fly by wire flap protection be the "issue" here?

Can you please delete all your control assignments for the throttle axis and then reassign just the correct throttle axis? That should fix it.

qwerty42 · November 5, 2018 at 2:23 AM

I think the issue is actually the flaps indicator light in the cockpit. At least on my install, flaps deploy half and full like they should, but the indicator light never goes past half anymore.

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · November 5, 2018 at 8:10 AM Official Post

Hah, that would be a bug, thank you, I'll get right on it.

steveiy · November 10, 2018 at 12:25 PM

Thank you. I guess the throttle was mapped twice. When I deleted the X axis, it still said it was mapped to "slider 0", so I deleted that too. I didn't realise this could happen.

Thanks for looking at the flaps issue.

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