Hi Ray,> Video drivers as opposed to graphics drivers?
What's the difference? Graphics card == video card, innit?
> I assume you're still
> using the Omega ones for FS2002 which have been nice and stable for me.
Not on my Parhelia card, no. The Omega drivers were for nVidia. Matrox is a different thing altogether.
> I can access several other servers across our network both local at
> Cheadle Hulme and also those at Bath with minimal access times. This
> suggests something is not quite right with your settings possibly but
> not being a network administrator I wouldn't know where to start.
Access times are fine ONCE Explorer has seen and listed all the shared folders. It's something to do with sharing, but I can't figure out what. If I open Explorer and click on a network PC and wait till Explorer has listed all its shared drives, then it's as fast as anything from then on, in *that* copy of explorer. But if I close it or even just leave it and open another, then that take ages again. Very odd.
> I'll
> try to contact our SA and ask him if he can offer any advice on why your
> access times are so bad.
Okay, thanks, but please clarify it as above.
> <<Reverse thrust on the throttle axis has been in FSUIPC for 18 months
> and is used by many folks. I thought you tried it and didn't like it? >>
>
> I must be missing the obvious. Do I not move the throttle all the way
> back during calibration to allow for a null area? Does that then become
> the reverse thrust position?
You have to map the single throttle to the 4 separate ones, in FSUIPC. FS does not support reverse thrust on the single common throttle.
> If it does mean reserving part of the main
> throttle's axis I'm not sure I would like that and it's probable that is
> why I decided against it.
Oh, sorry. The only analogue reverse thrust control FS offers is the range below idle on the separate throttle inputs.
> What I was hoping for is to allocate reverse
> thrust to one of my spare axis on the yoke. Can I do that? There's no
> reverse thrust axis in FS2002 so I didn't think it was possible that
> way.
No, it isn't really. If you were building your own controls you'd arrange that by wiring the reverse throttle in series with the main one and calibrating them very carefully to give idle at the point where the reverser was full forward and the main throttle full back.
I'm not sure how I'd manage to do what you want with ordinary axes allocated through FS. I'd probably have to have you assign the reverse axis to something else, you didn't need, then if I saw the main throttle at zero and this one moving, feed some calibration from that in as reverse. It's quite a big job and I'm not sure I've got time for a while. It would also need another whole page in the options I think, as there's no room as it stands. Ugh. I'll think about it though.
> Do you know anything about a prospective radio stack? I know you
> wouldn't order one as you have the PFC stuff but I might be interested.
No, sorry. I thought his next stuff would be EICAS/EFIS control panels to go alongside the MCP.
Regards,
Pete
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