Parking brake warning while in flight

[Panxua]

Is it a bug?

I am completing a full range of familiarization flights (stall triggering, lazy eight) and navigation flights without engaging autopilot, and, at various occasions, in the course of cruise, the Park Brake warning has suddenly rang, and, eventually the rotating knob was in the brake position without a cause.

Any solution?

Thank you in advance

[Ricardo Pallavidino]

First thought: did you assign parking break to some key or button you're accidentally hitting during the maneuvers?

 

[Panxua]

@Ricardo,

That occured when I was effectiveley flying the aircraft, and therefore with both hands on the yoke, or the right hand on the power lever. I do not see any possibility to hit the brake button  while beeing concentrated on keeping the path!

[fireone]

Ricardo's suggestion is good  . He has taken the time to try and help you.

If you don't try to see which keys  on your setup are assigned to the Park Brake , you may never find the solution.

Given that the park prake is a progressive function when operated by mouse , just like the throttle , how do you know there is no cross talk unless you check ?

 

Checking the assignments of key strokes ,throttles ,buttons etc is always a good idea , I have found that a command assigned to two different keyboard letters or a throttle quadrant & keyboard may and often do cause unexplained behaviour.

As an example , if I use my throttle lever on the  CH throttle quadrant and there is a throttle assignment on the keyboard the throttle response in game  is occasionally very odd.

[Panxua]

@fireone

Thank you for your remark. My purpose was not to dismiss Ricardo's argument. This suggestion was indeed totally relevant. So much so that I experimented this kind of problem in a conflict between centering my view in TrackIR and the cut-off position of the power lever. In my current setup, I deprogrammed the "B" key on my keyboard to allow some AP selection. My parking brake is now assigned to an almost hidden button on my Saitek Throttle Quadrant! This is the reason why I was wondering.

I sincerely apologize if I hurted Ricardo's feelings

[Ricardo Pallavidino]

2 hours ago, Panxua said:

I sincerely apologize if I hurted Ricardo's feelings

No, not at all.

But this is a very puzzling issue. Hope some Devs kick in here to help you.

Your problem can be mine in the future, hope not!

Edited November 23, 2018 by Ricardo Pallavidino

[Goran_M]

Tested, and failed to reproduce.  I'll ask around, though

[Panxua]

To all interested in this topic...

Ricardo's suggestion proved most likely right.

The warning reiterated once again yesterday, at the moment I disengaged PA to land on a small airfield, both hands on the yoke. I therefore decided to look for all assignations on my Saitek yoke, and discovered that behind the right handle was a rotating knob with three positions, the first one being programmed with the brake. Its quite puzzling, but I deprogrammed it, and my today's flight went without any problem.

Thank you to all guys having taken two minutes two answer my worry.

Have nice flights on Hot Start TBM!

 

[gulivan]

I had this issue and for me the reason was that I was zooming with my mouse to get closer to the pfd and my cursor just happened to pass over the break knob making it rotate (as I was zooming) giving me a brake alert. 

[Ricardo Pallavidino]

Glad you solved it! Happy flights!

[CDNCAVOK]

This also happend to me when assigning the parking break to my pos 1 and Pos 2 knob on my old Saitek Aviator joystick which is seriously due to be retired! The switch is somehow defective causing the parking break alert in mid flight.

 

I am waiting for Vkb to sell their joystick and pedals on Amazon.ca sice shipping is too expensive from the X-Plane.org store plus the exchange rate is killing me, and I do not trust USPS lol!