[SOLVED] Throttle jumps to lo idle when feathering

[argonius]

Hi!

First of all congratulations to the developers for producing such an excellent piece of 3D art and systems programming!

I have a minor issue with the throttle. If the lever is in flight idle position and I drag it to the right with the mouse in order to feather the props, the lever doesn't stay at hi idle position but travels one "notch" down into low idle. Not sure if it's me doing something wrong or if it's a bug. I am on Linux.

Thanks & BR

Christian

 

Edited October 23, 2018 by skiselkov

[borrrden]

Not related to the issue, but feathering the props is done by pulling down along the left side, not the right side.  

[argonius]

3 hours ago, borrrden said:

Not related to the issue, but feathering the props is done by pulling down along the left side, not the right side.  

Nope. Check out the Quick Start Guide on p27.

[borrrden]

Oh you are right nevermind then.  Even the word "feather" was written on the right side of the stick *facepalm*.  My assumption was that the angle change of the taxi range corresponded to feathering.

[argonius]

I really do not know what I have been doing wrong yesterday. But today the throttle behaved as expected and I tried many times. Guess it was a pilot error

[skiselkov]

On 10/21/2018 at 11:58 AM, argonius said:

I have a minor issue with the throttle. If the lever is in flight idle position and I drag it to the right with the mouse in order to feather the props, the lever doesn't stay at hi idle position but travels one "notch" down into low idle. Not sure if it's me doing something wrong or if it's a bug. I am on Linux.

It is an understandably somewhat confusing detail of the manipulator design. If you hold the command down for too long after the throttle has moved 1 notch (more than ~1 second), it moves immediately to low idle. We have this control in there so you can go straight from low idle to flight idle in one fluid motion. I'll try to see if I redesign it so it's a little less confusing. But what you were probably experiencing is "as designed" at the moment.