tkcamp Posted July 3 Posted July 3 (edited) My landing gear will not operate even with mouse click about 50% of the time. Is this an issue anyone else is having? Also the mixture setting has to be left in the cutoff position or my engine quits Edited July 3 by tkcamp spelling
GTFreeFlyer Posted July 4 Posted July 4 Can’t comment on the landing gear since I have that bound to a physical lever, but regarding the mixture, I have no clue how you can even get your engine to run at all while the mixture is in the cutoff position. Moving to cutoff is how you shut down after landing. Maybe you have it backwards? Full forward is auto-rich and full aft is cutoff. My DCS Missions: Band of Buds series | The End of the T-55 Era | Normandy PvP | Host of the Formation Flight Challenge server Supercarrier Reference Kneeboards IRL: Private Pilot, UAS Test Pilot, Aircraft Designer, and... eh hem... DCS Enthusiast
tkcamp Posted July 4 Author Posted July 4 I have it bound to a lever too. When full aft it runs if I move forward to full rich or lean the engine will shut down. Makes no sense.
Art-J Posted July 4 Posted July 4 Not sure about the gear, I use key for that. As for the mixture, is your axis is set as slider in axis tune window? Mine is and it works as expected. Various freaky things have been reported when folks were assigning axes simply as non-sliders. 1 i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10.
GTFreeFlyer Posted July 4 Posted July 4 3 hours ago, tkcamp said: I have it bound to a lever too. When full aft it runs if I move forward to full rich or lean the engine will shut down. Makes no sense. I have to ask the obvious question: Is your binding inverted? Does the virtual lever move in same direction as your hardware lever? You might want to post a track file for further troubleshooting. 1 My DCS Missions: Band of Buds series | The End of the T-55 Era | Normandy PvP | Host of the Formation Flight Challenge server Supercarrier Reference Kneeboards IRL: Private Pilot, UAS Test Pilot, Aircraft Designer, and... eh hem... DCS Enthusiast
tkcamp Posted July 8 Author Posted July 8 Yes it is in the same direction. I did notice that later in the flight I was able to move the mixture lever to the middle position without killing the engine.
tkcamp Posted yesterday at 03:23 PM Author Posted yesterday at 03:23 PM Seems like after the engine is warmed up, I can move the mixture out of the cutoff position without killing it. The lever is moving in the forward position as normal visually. Most planes I start cranking the prop. When the engine starts to fire, I move the mixture lever to the auto lean or rich position. On the corsair I try to move it out of the cutoff position it just kills the engine. Seems backwards
Art-J Posted yesterday at 04:12 PM Posted yesterday at 04:12 PM (edited) Are you talking about cold starts? I used to struggle with these as well, despite following advice in the other thread of keeping starter switch pressed long. Turns out, if I you keep it too long then indeed, moving mixture out of cutoff position does kill the engine for whatever reason. Yesterday I got it figure out eventually. It's just a question of timing. Once the engine catches, I move the mixture to lean first and let go of starter switch immediately after that. The engine starts properly every time now. Edited yesterday at 04:13 PM by Art-J i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10.
tkcamp Posted 8 hours ago Author Posted 8 hours ago (edited) Yes, it is cold starts and sounds like what you are describing. I will try to get off the starter and see what happens. Edited 8 hours ago by tkcamp
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