Flap handle anomaly after replay

[jfjoubert]

Hi, this is one of those "funnies" where I just happened to come across this by pure accident... or out of stupidity. 

I can get the flap handle to "dislodge" from the detents and then I can do 360 degree loops with the handle... 

To reproduce do the following:

Load the IXEG in "Ready to fly" state. Set flaps to 40 degrees. Press Alt-R to enter replay mode. Now press 1 to move flaps to 30 degrees. Now press 2 twice. You will hear the clicks but the handle won't move in replay mode. Now exit replay mode by pressing Alt-R again. You will notice the handle will move one detent past the 40 degrees position. Now you can keep on pressing 2 and the handle will rotate all the way around. If you keep it in the normal range for a while you will hear another click after which normal operation might return, if you're lucky... otherwise a Gizmo reboot is the only solution. The same applies in reverse... Flap handle at 0 degrees... go into replay mode... press 2 and then 1 twice and exit replay mode. Handle will now move one notch lower than 0 degrees. You get the idea...

The reverse method also produces a Gizmo soft crash when you try to move the handle further away by pressing 1. After this a Gizmo reboot won't even work... you will have to reload the aircraft from the X-Plane menu.

So what I'm trying to say here is... don't do it.

Just thought I'd mention it. 

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[xplana]

experienced the same thing = funny :-)

[Morten]

Maybe not the highest priority, but noted

[jfjoubert]

Hi Morten,

Definitely not... trust me to find weird stuff though.

Thanks for noting.

Maybe we should ask Jan if this was ever possible in the real bird? 

Edited August 17, 2016 by jfjoubert