Can anyone help me understand this in-sim controller info?

[latearrival]

Hello!

 

In DCS A-10C, I can press Ctrl-Enter (I think that's the combo) and bring up a window that shows what inputs it's getting from my controller axes. I'm hoping you guys can help me understand the info that's being displayed:

 

Referring to the screenshot:

1. What are these two vertical axes for?

 

2. Although my joystick appears to be correctly calibrated in CH Manager, is it normal for the pitch to be off centre like this? (short travel for climb, long for dive).

 

3. What is the little white horizontal marker for? It moves up/down when I press the left rudder pedal (left differential brake)

 

4a. The little vertical red bars show left & right braking pressure. When I took the screenshot I had no feet on the pedals. Is it normal to see that the sim thinks a little pressure is being applied at all times? I'm worried that my brakes are being permanently applied!

 

4b. At rest (no feet on rudders/pedals), the left red bar (indicating left brake pressure) is always a bit higher than the right. Combined with the fact that the sim seems to think I always have both brakes slightly applied, this makes it look like I am always applying a tad more pressure to the left brake (when my feet are off the pedals). To be expected?

 

Any guidance would be much appreciated!

 

Cheers!

Edited May 14, 2011 by latearrival
added screenshot

[Sarge55]

1 - Throttle indicator,

2 - The diamond is the important part, when the stick is center it should be center over the vertical / horizontal lines, not sure why the horizontal bar is not centered in the display. Mine's like that to.

3 - correct, the two white markers are the brake indicators, one for left and one for right. I have mine set to a single axis so they both apply at once where as if you have pedals that have individual axis you can set up differential braking.

 

If one's a bit higher than the other or seems on all the time then I would say you need to re-calibrate your pedals. Or what I did was create a bit of dead zone to cancel out any calibration issues.

 

Hope that helps.

[latearrival]

Thanks Sarge!

 

1. D'oh! Of course!

2. Glad to hear that it's not just me :)

3. Something doesn't seem quite right here - I have differential braking, and the red 'volume-like' indicators show braking pressure, individually, one for the left brake and one for the right. But the white markers both move together and are only linked to my left brake.

 

Your help is much appreciated. I'll have to dig around and see what's up with these brakes being permanently applied.

[latearrival]

My calibration appears fine (at least in CH Manager, and in DCS's Axis Fine Tune function).

 

If anyone with CH Products Pedals stumbles across this thread, I'd really appreciate it if you could, when sitting stationary in your Warthog, do a RCtrl+Enter (Show Controls Information) and tell me if the control info shows that your brake pedals are still slightly applied after you've taken your feet completely off the brakes.

Edited May 15, 2011 by latearrival

[Sarge55]

I have CH Pedals but found I prefered using just the wheel brake and opposed to left and right.

 

I had a similar issue with mine so I adjusted the in-game controls. See the attached screen shot. This addressed the always on problem for me.

 

Regards

[latearrival]

@Sarge55, I hope you don't mind helping me here, but isn't your saturation setting effectively creating a dead-zone near the fully-applied end of your brake application?

 

I had a play with axis tune (largely in ignorance) and came up with the attached (second attachment). This fixed my 'brakes always slightly applied' problem, but now I only have partial braking pressure when my pedals are fully depressed - the plane starts moving forward at only 50% fan RPM. The first attachment shows what the sim now 'sees' when my brakes pedals are full on.

 

I'm probably doing something stupid, but can you give me any clues as to what that might be?

Edited May 16, 2011 by latearrival
clarifed purpose of attachments

[latearrival]

Can anyone suggest how I might get my CH pedals (which appear to be fine in CH Manager and Axis Tune) to give me a full application of the brakes when pressed? I only seem to be getting about 30% application.

Edited May 16, 2011 by latearrival

[latearrival]

Can anyone suggest how I might get my CH pedals (which appear to be fine in CH Manager and Axis Tune) to give me a full application of the brakes when pressed? I only seem to be getting about 30% application.

 

Case closed thanks to Bob Church's help over at CH Hanger.

 

The solution was to clear some windows calibration data that had somehow got created.

 

Bob's fix is described here:

 

http://www.ch-hangar.com/forum/showthread.php?7899-100-application-of-CH-brakes-30-application-in-DCS-A-10C&p=46513#post46513