Can speed brake work simultaneously with other actions?

[bofhlusr]

I'm wondering if this is just me. Is this how it is supposed to be?

From Instant Action / Free Flight, apparently I can't look around with my joystick hat or do other actions while the speed brake (LCtrl-b) is in 'action'.

[razo+r]

Do you use the keyboard to use the airbrake? Because then you are using a modifier. So if you use your joystick hat, it does not trigger the normal assigned button but it uses it with the modifier, LCtrl in this case. Then it would look like this as an example joy0_povLeft but LCtrl+joy0_povLeft. 

Edited January 31, 2023 by razo+r

[jonsky7]

Just to elaborate a bit on what raz+r has said above.

The CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, and WIN keys are classed as modifier keys. This is so you can have hundreds if not thousands more keyboard commands.

As you can have for eg "B", LCTRL+B, LALT+B, LCTRL+LALT+B, LCTRL+LALT+LSHIFT+B etc etc etc.

As raz+r has said, if you are holding CTRL to operate the speed brake, then when you are operating your POV hat, you are actually sending the command LCTRL+POV Hat, and not just POV hat which is the assigned command.

You can however have multiple binds to do the same "action", so you could assign both POVL and LCTRL+POVL to look left.

All you have to do is select the look left command in the joystick column, press LCTRL and POVL.

You will then see two binds assigned to that action eg POVL, LCTRL+POVL.

Then look left will work whether LCTRL is pressed or not.

Edited January 31, 2023 by jonsky7

[bofhlusr]

39 minutes ago, jonsky7 said:

Just to elaborate a bit on what raz+r has said above.

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The CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, and WIN keys are classed as modifier keys.
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if you are holding CTRL to operate the speed brake, then when you are operating your POV hat, you are actually sending the command LCTRL+POV Hat, and not just POV hat which is the assigned command.

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Thank you for the above clarification. This helps a bit. I'm using joy2key so that when I press a one joystick button, the speed brake extends while the button is pressed, and the speed brake retracts when i let go of the button. I was wondering why I couldn't do anything else while using the speed brakes.

I wish that the braking action could be made faster than the 3-4 seconds it takes to extend or retract the speed brake. This is likely not done in real life but...it'll be more fun to 'tune' the plane and the game. 

[bofhlusr]

I did some tests. Works great. Thank you both. My life is complete. Lol.