Cougar setup for radar range, elevation & azimuth in LOMAC FC (F-15 so far)

[coolts]

Guys

I have set up a cack handed solution with just assigning straight keyboard macros to the two rotaries. It sort of works but I have to keep centring them as they are just set to replicate keystrokes.

The rotaries, if set at say 100% (clockwise), won’t generate the correct values when rotated back, to say 80%, unless I centre and start again.

I get the feeling there is a more elegant “analogue” solution to this as it’s a bit like the Tie fighter pilot out of Star Wars fiddling with his knobs (ooer), prior to taking a shot.

Hang on, that makes it cool!

(posted on SimHQ & ED Lomac forums)

[digital_steve]

Post any updates here... i recently got a tm cougar hotas and i'm now more confused than a wombat at a swingers party

[AustinN360]

Why don't you just set the ANT dial to your radar alt slew in game? As seen in this screenshot? It saves setting them up in Foxy.

 

[coolts]

Cheers

 

After faffing about with "digital statements" in Foxy I discovered that what LOMAC calls "Radar slew vertical" equated to "antenna elevation" on the Cougar and can be mapped to an axis.

 

This works intermittently. I may have a conflict.

 

LOMAC "MFD range" can also be mapped to the RNG rotary axis on the Cougar.

 

Honestly, most of the profiles I have downloaded have all sorts of compromises with digital axis for these controls. If ED had named the axis better this may not have happened.

 

Don’t get me started on trying to map comms to the radio 4-way. (The default UK key “\” which is named in LOMAC settings as bringing up the comms menu doesn’t. Try it. It’s actually “#”.......which on the KORGY keyboard for Cougar doesn’t exist as its modelled on a Canadian / French keyboard, (SHF 3). So.....you change the comms key...)

 

Happy days ;)

 

Ps. <104th – can’t see your pic>

[coolts]

Steve - if you get stuck, let me know. I spent the last week reading TM manuals, programming in Foxy and rebuilding my 2nd hand Cougar.

 

I may get a job with TM at this rate!

[AustinN360]

 

Can you see this one?

[coolts]

Yup. cheers. Does setting them to "slider" or "axis" make any difference other than giving you another curve option?

[coolts]

UPDATE

 

After flailing about with over sensitive rotaries, i have discovered that if you set the axis to "axis" and not "slider",(or the other way round having looked at that screenshot?), you get a deadzonce curve. play with that and you can tame the controls nicely without having to resort to a LOMAC specific Cougar control panel profile.

 

Now to blow something up!

Edited February 11, 2010 by coolts