WelshZeCorgi Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 (edited) Not seeing it in the axis controls options. Edited April 14, 2019 by IronMike
Emmy Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 There isn’t an axis as flaps are either full up or full down. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] http://www.476vfightergroup.com/content.php High Quality Aviation Photography For Personal Enjoyment And Editorial Use. www.crosswindimages.com
Moafuleum Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 ... as flaps are either full up or full down. Thats not true. Only the AUX flaps are fully up or down.
Shimmergloom667 Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 Thats not true. Only the AUX flaps are fully up or down. Actually that is true. In the real aircraft, they were all or nothing. Read Victory's Flaps & Spoilers heads-up: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=235701 i7 - 9700K | 32 GB DDR4 3200 | RTX 2080 | VKB Gunfighter Mk II /w MCG Pro | Virpil T-50CM2 Throttle | TrackIR 5 | VKB Mk. IV AJS-37 | A/V-8B | A-10C | F-14A/B | F-16C | F-18C | F-86F | FC3 | JF-17 | Ka-50 | L-39 | Mi-8 | MiG-15bis | MiG-19 | MiG-21bis | M2000-C | P-51D | Spitfire LF Mk. IX | UH-1H
mariner3302 Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 Actually that is true. In the real aircraft, they were all or nothing. Read Victory's Flaps & Spoilers heads-up: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=235701 ACTUALLY the OP is correct. The flaps are variable between full up and full down. The source is the NATOPS for the F-14. If you move the flap lever in the plane you will see it happen. Just cuz its on the internet doesnt make it true.... i7-7700K, 32GB DDR4, 525GB SSD, 1TB HDD, GTX 1080Ti 11GB, Liquid Cooling, Win 10, Warthog HOTAS, TPR Pedals, HP Reverb, Oculus Rift with Touch, Jetseat and bass shakers, PointCTRL, and Scale F-14B Cockpit
Shimmergloom667 Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 Just cuz its on the internet doesnt make it true.... ACTUALLY you are right and I stand corrected in that you *can* move the flaps handle incrementally with the main flaps moving proportionally, that said, though, I still would like to quote Victory because he is a RL Tomcat driver: "In the sim, there is no reason to assign an axis to the flap control. Essentially, the landing flaps are full up or down." i7 - 9700K | 32 GB DDR4 3200 | RTX 2080 | VKB Gunfighter Mk II /w MCG Pro | Virpil T-50CM2 Throttle | TrackIR 5 | VKB Mk. IV AJS-37 | A/V-8B | A-10C | F-14A/B | F-16C | F-18C | F-86F | FC3 | JF-17 | Ka-50 | L-39 | Mi-8 | MiG-15bis | MiG-19 | MiG-21bis | M2000-C | P-51D | Spitfire LF Mk. IX | UH-1H
mariner3302 Posted March 18, 2019 Posted March 18, 2019 The folks that build cockpits want them to be as complete and accurate as possible. So whether you, or anyone else, feels it is necessary or not doesnt matter. We want the ability and it isnt a hard or unreasonable request. i7-7700K, 32GB DDR4, 525GB SSD, 1TB HDD, GTX 1080Ti 11GB, Liquid Cooling, Win 10, Warthog HOTAS, TPR Pedals, HP Reverb, Oculus Rift with Touch, Jetseat and bass shakers, PointCTRL, and Scale F-14B Cockpit
Dudikoff Posted March 28, 2019 Posted March 28, 2019 There is a flaps axis now, but it's not correctly handled. When I mapped it to the Warthog Throttle's slider, I had to invert it and noticed it only uses like 30-40% of the available axis movement (i.e. after I move the slider close to the half, in-game lever is already fully down). Hope this gets fixed. i386DX40@42 MHz w/i387 CP, 4 MB RAM (8*512 kB), Trident 8900C 1 MB w/16-bit RAMDAC ISA, Quantum 340 MB UDMA33, SB 16, DOS 6.22 w/QEMM + Win3.11CE, Quickshot 1btn 2axis, Numpad as hat. 2 FPH on a good day, 1 FPH avg. DISCLAIMER: My posts are still absolutely useless. Just finding excuses not to learn the F-14 (HB's Swansong?). Annoyed by my posts? Please consider donating. Once the target sum is reached, I'll be off to somewhere nice I promise not to post from. I'd buy that for a dollar!
WelshZeCorgi Posted April 4, 2019 Author Posted April 4, 2019 Yeah, I just noticed that too. only uses the forward half of the thrustmaster slider.
Strikeeagle345 Posted April 4, 2019 Posted April 4, 2019 (edited) Just asked a couple Tomcat AEs in our wing and they echoed Victory205. Real Flap handle had 4 positions emer up, up, down, emer down , emer down was not utilized though. There was no in between or variable Flap control with the Flap handle / lever. Direct from the NATOPS as wel: Edited April 4, 2019 by Strikeeagle345 Strike USLANTCOM.com i7-9700K OC 5GHz| MSI MPG Z390 GAMING PRO CARBON | 32GB DDR4 3200 | GTX 3090 | Samsung SSD | HP Reverb G2 | VIRPIL Alpha | VIRPIL Blackhawk | HOTAS Warthog
Eldur Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 Just asked a couple Tomcat AEs in our wing and they echoed Victory205. Real Flap handle had 4 positions emer up, up, down, emer down , emer down was not utilized though. There was no in between or variable Flap control with the Flap handle / lever. I'll just quote Victory205 on this: The MAIN flaps extend proportionately with flap handle position. The AUX flaps extend fully if the flap handle is moved beyond 5 degrees, and retract fully if the flap handle is less than 5 degrees. It’s all or nothing for AUX flaps.As far as I understand the whole thing, it's just that they never used any intermediate setting especially due to the fact that reversing while in travel might cause damage to the system. So it's safer to just put them either up or down completely. But I don't mind not having the possibility. Using the maneuvering flaps basically is an intermediate setting already which is good enough. I just wish there was a smooth animation of the handle movement instead of it teleporting back and forth upon manipulation.
Victory205 Posted April 5, 2019 Posted April 5, 2019 You gents seem to be misquoting my paper. Read again. The main flaps can be extended incrementally, it just wasn't done in practice (unless cheating at ACM). Fly Pretty, anyone can Fly Safe.
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