ai limitations Power levers switch automatically in fly position

[Shadok]

hello,

During a cold start, in the pilot position and with the power levers in the idle position, if I switch to the co-pilot position, the power levers switch directly to the flight position.
I've deleted all the co-pilot keyboard shortcuts and axes linked to the power lever to make sure there's no conflict.

please watch the track

ah64_startup.trk

[ShuRugal]

I believe this is the George AI doing it.  He wants to go fly.

[TED]

May or may not be the case in your instance, but I just had something similar, in that during flight the power levers would suddenly go to idle! 

Like you I went through all the binds and couldn't solve it. I was about to submit a bug report when I checked my voice attack commands. Sure enough VA was picking up noises of things i hadnt actually said but interpreted them as commands. One of these commands turned out to be the power levers! 

[Shadok]

9 hours ago, TED said:

May or may not be the case in your instance, but I just had something similar, in that during flight the power levers would suddenly go to idle! 

Like you I went through all the binds and couldn't solve it. I was about to submit a bug report when I checked my voice attack commands. Sure enough VA was picking up noises of things i hadnt actually said but interpreted them as commands. One of these commands turned out to be the power levers! 

This is not similar, for me it only appears when I switch from the pilot seat to the co-pilot seat, and only to the flight mode.

Edited November 14, 2024 by Shadok

[Moxica]

Had that happen to me as well, when trying to boresight front seat. Takeoff happening, APU active, ground crew trying to re arm going "What are you doing?" tail spin into trucks and total carnage! 

Edited November 14, 2024 by Moxica

[Floyd1212]

56 minutes ago, Moxica said:

when trying to boresight front seat

I think if you let George do his normal startup procedures in the front, he boresights the IHADSS on his own.

[Floyd1212]

On 11/12/2024 at 9:05 AM, ShuRugal said:

I believe this is the George AI doing it.  He wants to go fly.

Agreed.  When George moves to the back seat, he (aggressively) moves the throttles to FLY.  I don't have the throttles bound to anything for the front seat or back seat, as I only use my mouse to move them in the cockpit, and the same thing happens to me.

This shouldn't be an issue though, if you have the collective all the way down.

[Shadok]

6 hours ago, Floyd1212 said:

This shouldn't be an issue though, if you have the collective all the way down.

This is indeed the case, but it's still disturbing, since the pleasure of flying these complex machines also lies in mastering what you're doing. I can live with it, but if ED could take a look at it, that would be great.

[Lord Vader]

Hello @Shadok

This is a limitation in the AI's behaviour, it will try to set up the panel automatically according to the current status. It's been said multiple times that when you want to switch seats you should stabilize the aircraft completely, this includes flight conditions. 

As it was already mentioned, you don't have to set up other cockpit while starting up your own, the other station is fully autonomous to turn everything on. If you switch seats mid procedure, you will break the flow. 

I understand when you say about "mastering what you're doing", but if you think about it, realistically each crew member is responsible for his own cockpit and wouldn't switch back and forth. The cockpit switching is not a realistic procedure, created to allow solo players to have some measure of control over the full features. But remember that you need to set the correct conditions before handing controls to George, otherwise these small hiccups will occur. 

[Moxica]

13 hours ago, Floyd1212 said:

I think if you let George do his normal startup procedures in the front, he boresights the IHADSS on his own.

I suspected that, but often the gunners ihads is off by a desorientating number of feet in relation to the TDU
..so I started suspecting it needed its own boresighting

Edited November 15, 2024 by Moxica

[Shadok]

OK, thank you for the explanations @Lord Vader

[Greyman]

Could it have been that of the two sets of bindings for the power levers, one for the pilot and one for the CPG, that only one of them had the inverted flag set?