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Title: Rudder and Tiller axis calibration
Post by: barrykensett on November 05, 2012, 07:37:57 AM
Hi guys
I have progressively added rudder and brake axes to my sim and I have increasing calibration problems. Just looking back to joysticks, I have two and they give no trouble once set up.
With a single rudder, brakes and tiller setup again no problems but when I added the second tiller I always had to make sure to fully cycle both tillers to centralise them, not too much pain. Now I have added a second rudder pedal set and the problems get bigger. I have to cycle both rudders and tillers to get them to centre, however if I split the rudders and tillers in FSUIPC the rudders do not function on the ground and so do not centre. Similar with the brakes, I have to cycle them to make sure they are off when released otherwise they tend to have some application which takes off the parking brake and I cannot start the engines. So again I need to cycle them all using a stick to reach the other side and can get going.
Now the real problem, however diligent I am with the centreing and checking in FSUIPC, the tiller seems to get spurious inputs or something which mean when I am taxying it tends to wander about.
Has anyone else any experience here?
Barry
www.a320sim.com (http://www.a320sim.com)
Title: Re: Rudder and Tiller axis calibration
Post by: rhysb on November 05, 2012, 09:39:56 AM
Barry, do you setup all your flight controls via fsuipc?
Title: Re: Rudder and Tiller axis calibration
Post by: jackpilot on November 05, 2012, 11:38:20 AM
I suppose you deleted automatic joystick (rudder/tiller/) assignements in FS ?
Title: Re: Rudder and Tiller axis calibration
Post by: tennyson on November 05, 2012, 02:08:31 PM
Not sure if this will help, but ian Sisson's site has a very good explanation about tillers and calibration. Might be worth a look:

http://737ng.co.uk/technical.htm (http://737ng.co.uk/technical.htm)

There is a wealth of info over there, especially in the download section.


Frank Cooper
Title: Re: Rudder and Tiller axis calibration
Post by: barrykensett on November 07, 2012, 07:53:32 AM
Thanks for the replies.
Yes all controls set up through FSUIPC
Joysticks de-selected in FS, no auto rudders selected.
Will check out Ian Sissons comments.
Thanks again.
Barry
www.a320sim.com (http://www.a320sim.com)