Assign axis to cowling?

[Howard]

Is it possible to assign one of the levers to open and close the cowling on an airplane like the DC3?

Next question................How?

Thanks,
Howard

[Bob Church]

There are commands for cowl flaps. Peter's Controls Document lists COWLFLAP1_SET through COWLFLAP4_SET which look like they're axis events, INC_COWL_FLAPS and DEC_COWL_FLAPS which would probably be button events that control all the cowl flaps simultaneously, and then INC_COWL_FLAPS1 through INC_COWL_FLAPS4 and DEC_COWL_FLAPS1 through DEC_COWL_FLAPS4 which are probably buttons the control them for the individual engines. They'd need to be set in the CFG file, my guess is they're not on the FS Control Assignment menu, though, and you'd need to edit it manually or maybe use CMFS to make the assignement with a CM Map.

With the COWLFLAPx_SET controls there isn't one that controls all four engines listed, so it probably requires separate axis inputs for each. If that's the case and you want to do it with a single lever, you can do it with the CMS Controls. Add 4 lines to the script file:

CMS.A1 = JS2.A1;
CMS.A2 = JS2.A1;
CMS.A3 = JS2.A1;
CMS.A4 = JS2.A1;

Not sure which axis you'd want to use, JS1.A1 is the X axis on the second tab but you could move it to something else. Anyway, that will make CMS.A1 through CMS.A4 all track the one lever. Then you can assign the 4 CMS axes to 4 Control Manager Device axes up in the GUI and assign those axes to control the 4 COWLFLAPx_SET events to get single-lever control.

Have you picked Peter's Controls files yet? They're posted over at:

http://www.schiratti.com

on the page they maintain for him over there. Get the one on FS2K and the one on whatever version of FS you're flying. The FS2K version is the last one that talked about how to make the assignments. The later versions only listed the changes since the procedure apparently didn't change.

- Bob

The StickWorks
http://www.stickworks.com

[Howard]

Thanks again Bob.