APU Control Switch - ON/OFF command is strange

[LeCuvier]

The command "APU Control Switch - ON/OFF" in the cockpit is a maintained 2-position ON/OFF switch. So I bound it to a maintained ON/OFF switch.

Before and during the engine start process, the switch in the cockpit follows my physical switch as expected. But once both engines are running and I want to stop th APU, the sitch behaves differently:

I set my switch to OFF: nothing happens.

I set my switch back to ON: the cockpit switch goes OFF.

So, once the engines are running, this command no longer works as a maintained ON/OFF sitch but like an ON/OF toggle or pushbutton.

It's obviously not a high-priority bug but I would like to see it corrected.

[cofcorpse]

It's not quite a bug. It is how Warthog switches work - they produce signal if they are on, just like ordinary button. Input command is for button. It may be not comfortable, but definitely not an error. We are thinking about adding additional command for Warthog joystick to make it more convenient. But as real switch is electrically held in ON position, it will never work the same as real one.

[tintifaxl]

Implementing more 2-way and 3-way switches for the Warthog throttle is very welcome. :D

[Brun]

Posted about this on the weekend - https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=210996

 

Would really like to see it fixed.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Would really like to see it fixed.

It's been fixed since last Friday...

[Brun]

It's been fixed since last Friday...

It's not 'fixed'. I updated and still don't have ON and OFF bindings for the APU.

 

I mentioned in the other thread that I suspected it was because the switch is electrically held. However I don't think that's a good reason to not include the discrete bindings when they're so comprehensive for everything else.

[LeCuvier]

It's not quite a bug. It is how Warthog switches work - they produce signal if they are on, just like ordinary button. Input command is for button. It may be not comfortable, but definitely not an error. We are thinking about adding additional command for Warthog joystick to make it more convenient. But as real switch is electrically held in ON position, it will never work the same as real one.

Call it what you want. The fact that it does not behave in the same once the engines are runnig is inconsistent. And inconsistent behaviour to me is not right. We should have in input command option that behaves logically with a maintained ON/OFF switch.

[Brun]

I understand cofcorpse's point about it being an electrically held switch. At least they acknowledge that adding the extra commands are being considered. I think that would be a huge improvement on the current state of things.

 

 

P.S. Someone actually modded their Warthog throttle to make the EAC switch disengage realistically in the A-10C. Pretty impressive, if a little complicated...

 

[LeCuvier]

... But as real switch is electrically held in ON position, it will never work the same as real one.

I guess you have a point here. Also it seems to me that the APU is switched off automatically once the startup is completed.

So, no matter what you do it will never be quite realistic because the program cannot move my switch lever. So I will only use that switch to start the APU.