Engine Power/Aircraft Speed

[Hayrake YE-ZB]

14 minutes ago, felixx75 said:

I find it astonishing that hardly anyone seems to use the “slider” option. It is only logical to use “slider” for all axis that do not use a center point and “+” and “-” (Pitch, Roll, Yaw for example) but go from “0” to “100”. Throttle or brakes, for example, are such a case, rotary controls, etc. I have been using the “slider” option for this type of axis for years.

When I first set up controls on a Thrustmaster WH throttle, the cockpit prop control would reverse halfway through the throttle range. Checking slider solved it. Subsequent to that, I also calibrated the WH in game controllers, so that could have been the problem as well. It’s a matter of how the control coding is set up to handle the different types of axis I guess.

[Templar560]

17 minutes ago, felixx75 said:

I find it astonishing that hardly anyone seems to use the “slider” option. It is only logical to use “slider” for all axis that do not use a center point and “+” and “-” (Pitch, Roll, Yaw for example) but go from “0” to “100”. Throttle or brakes, for example, are such a case, rotary controls, etc. I have been using the “slider” option for this type of axis for years.

Yeah. tbh I never got into what it was. I can't bind that prop lever to anything anyway, but maybe it does if you turn into a slider. I've got some sliders on one of my peripherals that i use in the Hornet and use for Prop levers in the Mosquito.

[Padonis]

I have everything correctly assigned, but the water injection operation is not visible, the limiting wire is broken at the entrance to the plane at the airport. In a word, the water injection does not work.

[felixx75]

1 hour ago, Templar560 said:

Yeah. tbh I never got into what it was. I can't bind that prop lever to anything anyway, but maybe it does if you turn into a slider. I've got some sliders on one of my peripherals that i use in the Hornet and use for Prop levers in the Mosquito.

As I said, everything that has no center and goes “+” and “-” (Pitch: up/center/down, Roll: left/center/right) is a “slider” (Throttle 0-100%, Brakes 0-100% etc.). So I would set all such axis as “sliders”, which I have been doing for years with all modules.

1 hour ago, Padonis said:

I have everything correctly assigned, but the water injection operation is not visible, the limiting wire is broken at the entrance to the plane at the airport. In a word, the water injection does not work.

The F4U has no display, control light, visible switch or similar for the water injection, so it is currently very difficult to find out whether this is implemented at all and if so, whether it works properly. Unfortunately, the safety wire is not animated (as in the P-51, for example), but there is an animated detent. if you exceed this, the water injection should actually be activated.

Edited 7 hours ago by felixx75

[Templar560]

11 minutes ago, felixx75 said:

As I said, everything that has no center and goes “+” and “-” (Pitch: up/center/down, Roll: left/center/right) is a “slider” (Throttle 0-100%, Brakes 0-100% etc.). So I would set all such axis as “sliders”, which I have been doing for years with all modules.

The F4U has no display, control light, visible switch or similar for the water injection, so it is currently very difficult to find out whether this is implemented at all and if so, whether it works properly. Unfortunately, the safety wire is not animated (as in the P-51, for example), but there is an animated detent. if you exceed this, the water injection should actually be activated.

Cool I shall give it a try! Thanks!

[tekwoj]

There is no water injection, there's also no reason at the moment to respect the "do not exceed" limits as long as you pay attention to the temperature. I was flying low lever at 2700 RPM and Manifold at 60+ for a long time and nothing broke. Mixture at auto-rich helps cooling down engine to the point it's fine even with all cooling closed or almost closed.

[Saxman]

1 hour ago, felixx75 said:

As I said, everything that has no center and goes “+” and “-” (Pitch: up/center/down, Roll: left/center/right) is a “slider” (Throttle 0-100%, Brakes 0-100% etc.). So I would set all such axis as “sliders”, which I have been doing for years with all modules.

The F4U has no display, control light, visible switch or similar for the water injection, so it is currently very difficult to find out whether this is implemented at all and if so, whether it works properly. Unfortunately, the safety wire is not animated (as in the P-51, for example), but there is an animated detent. if you exceed this, the water injection should actually be activated.

There is the 3-minute warning light which comes on, and I've gotten twice. However I've not seen any change in power.

So I think the underlying coding may be there, it just no workee.

[felixx75]

9 minutes ago, Saxman said:

There is the 3-minute warning light which comes on, and I've gotten twice. However I've not seen any change in power.

So I think the underlying coding may be there, it just no workee.

What were your engine settings at that time? Manifold, blower, altitude,...?

20 minutes ago, tekwoj said:

There is no water injection

This is clearly not true, as Saxman has triggered the 3 minute warning light (see the post below yours). I.e. water injection is implemented, but the question is whether it works properly.

Edited 6 hours ago by felixx75

[Saxman]

1 hour ago, felixx75 said:

What were your engine settings at that time? Manifold, blower, altitude,...?

This is clearly not true, as Saxman has triggered the 3 minute warning light (see the post below yours). I.e. water injection is implemented, but the question is whether it works properly.

Max throttle and RPM, Low Blower, ranging from 10,000ft to the deck.

[lawndartleo]

8 hours ago, felixx75 said:

I find it astonishing that hardly anyone seems to use the “slider” option. It is only logical to use “slider” for all axis that do not use a center point and “+” and “-” (Pitch, Roll, Yaw for example) but go from “0” to “100”. Throttle or brakes, for example, are such a case, rotary controls, etc. I have been using the “slider” option for this type of axis for years.

Yes it “makes sense” but plenty of things work just fine as an “axis” so it is an easy oversight.

[Padonis]

If there is water injection, it shows nothing, no power increase, no RPM increase, absolutely nothing. Yesterday I was flying at full throttle 2700 and boost over 50. Lever at 100% for almost two hours. The water indicator light did not light up even for a second. I don't know what mate Saxman lit or how, but I and many others somehow fail to do it.