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It's working on my side.

No animations on cyclic  collective  I think, but I use it and light everywhere.

I don't know its power of illumination in real life, but it can't illuminate the ground above 900 meters.

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One thing and I don’t know why it’s like that… if you stow the light you have to wait 60 sec to be able to extend it again.

Anyone knows why it’s like that?

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1 hour ago, Mange said:

One thing and I don’t know why it’s like that… if you stow the light you have to wait 60 sec to be able to extend it again.

Anyone knows why it’s like that?

I believe it's to lock out any slew commands from both seats to ensure the Stow process completes properly.  It doesn't take anywhere close to 60 seconds, more like 10 seconds max if you had the searchlight at a crazy extension/rotation angle, so I don't know why the inhibit is a full minute. So if one person commands it to stow, the other person can't override it to start slewing it again. You can still turn it off and on during this 60 seconds, but yeah, that is essentially the logic behind it.

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I'm confused by the keybindings for the searchlight switch (see Screenshot).

What's the difference between "Down" and "ON"? They both seem to do the same thing (turning on the searchlight)???
What's the difference between "Up" and "OFF"? They both seem to do the same thing (turning off the searchlight)???
What exactly does "STOW" do? Does it just stow the searchlight or does it turn it off as well? If so, doesn't it make "Up"/"OFF" superfluous?

Searchlight.png

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32 minutes ago, QuiGon said:

I'm confused by the keybindings for the searchlight switch (see Screenshot).

What's the difference between "Down" and "ON"? They both seem to do the same thing (turning on the searchlight)???
What's the difference between "Up" and "OFF"? They both seem to do the same thing (turning off the searchlight)???
What exactly does "STOW" do? Does it just stow the searchlight or does it turn it off as well? If so, doesn't it make "Up"/"OFF" superfluous?

Searchlight.png

 

I think ON,OFF,STOW is for a 3 way switch and UP and DOWN is for if you have like a up and down switch 

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1 hour ago, Mange said:

I think ON,OFF,STOW is for a 3 way switch and UP and DOWN is for if you have like a up and down switch 

Oh, that would make sense. I haven't thought about it being like that, but it makes sense. I will check it out, thanks :thumbup:

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On 3/26/2022 at 1:29 PM, Mange said:

Anyone knows why it’s like that?

 

The manual of the real Apache says:

"NOTE
Searchlight motion is inhibited for 60 seconds
after the ON/OFF/STOW switch is
placed in the STOW position."

 

So, it seems it's just simulating the real world behaviour. I've just programed the searchlight onto my HOTAS, I binded it to a Microstick (and using a Modifier button, so I can use the same microstick to move the MPD cursor). The specific controls I used are:

 

Searchlight_Position_Switch-RET

Searchlight_Position_Switch-EXT

Searchlight_Position_Switch-L

Searchlight_Position_Switch-R

Searchlight_Switch-ON  toggle  Searchlight_Switch-OFF  toggle  Searchlight_Switch-STOW 
 

The movement is pretty slow, will see if I can make it go faster by adjusting the character generation rate of my keyboard, here is a video testing its operation with my Hotas:

 

 

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On 3/27/2022 at 6:04 AM, QuiGon said:

I'm confused by the keybindings for the searchlight switch (see Screenshot).

What's the difference between "Down" and "ON"? They both seem to do the same thing (turning on the searchlight)???
What's the difference between "Up" and "OFF"? They both seem to do the same thing (turning off the searchlight)???
What exactly does "STOW" do? Does it just stow the searchlight or does it turn it off as well? If so, doesn't it make "Up"/"OFF" superfluous?

Searchlight.png

 

The On/Off/Stow portion is for a 3 way toggle. The down/up is for a 3 way/2 position toggle or 2 free buttons to flip that switch up or down.

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5 hours ago, Hammer1-1 said:

The On/Off/Stow portion is for a 3 way toggle. The down/up is for a 3 way/2 position toggle or 2 free buttons to flip that switch up or down.

Yeah, @Mange has already pointed that out to me, but thanks nonetheless :thumbup:

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1 hour ago, QuiGon said:

Yeah, @Mange has already pointed that out to me, but thanks nonetheless :thumbup:

was explaining it a bit further but gotcha

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