LJKMartin

Ignore me. PICNIC. Problem In Chair Not In Computer.

I have just installed rudder pedals for the first time. They are Thrustmaster TFRP. The Saab 340 is not responding to them. I have calibrated fully and other aircraft are OK. Yaw would work on the twist of my X52, and I have removed that assignment. There is no movement in cockpit or the rudder itself. Is there a setting somewhere I need?

It works! I had to push the tiller down. I'm sure I tried that but maybe not while moving. Thanks for being available to help, and a great aircraft. I love flying it!

I wondered what the twist on that control was for because it didn't seem to do anything. I'll check at the weekend. I'll get into a taxi and then give the tiller a pull and a twist. Thanks

Yes .

I'm sorry but I can't get that to work. The nosewheel doesn't respond to my rudder inputs. This is with both positions of the steering tiller. I also have a button on my throttle (X52) assigned to Toggle Nosewheel Steering. When the nosewheel is unlocked the only time it moves is when I come to a halt, when it does a complete left to right spin.

Thanks Goran, I fully understand. It's hard to think what else we can try. I've not a nice new system out of it though I'll look forward to the upgrade. Cheers LJM

It's a fresh system and install. I'd only installed Windows 8.1, the barebones drivers, graphics card drivers, triplehead2go and Kaspersky Internet Security. If I plug the video direct into a single monitor, I still get the problem. It's odd how it changes though. Sometimes, they are too high and sometimes too low. Could there be a weather effect here? I usually "use real weather". OOOH. I've just switched from clear and dry to the internet download, and the elevators have moved from deflecting up, to deflecting down! Changed it back, and they haven't budged.

Can you believe it? I've got round to replacing my system. New barebones, new graphics card, new cpu, new dvd drive, new RAM, new SSD. Same joystick and Matrox triplehead, and I've kept the old HDDs but am not booting from them. I've used a previous download of the SAAB, but downloaded the X-Plane demo. Still the same problem! I'll have to try without the Matrox and a different joystick then?

Sorry it's been so long since the last update, but I've been away but also my graphics card failed. Ah-ha, I thought. But no. I've borrowed a spare from a friend and it's not made any difference. I've decided to get a new system (the old one is 7 years old), but in the meantime, I'm downloading the demo. Am I limited in how many installs I can do with the SAAB?

Thanks Goran, My system is probably unique (I got a professional to build it for me), but there's nothing outlandish about it. I can see it's very puzzling. Through the course of this problem it's changed from down to up and by degree too. I did reinstall, but back to the same place. The deflection is pretty small now. I have two disks, so I'll try installing to the second disk, or would you recommend making a partition? I'll try and get my hands on another joystick too. Cheers

Hi, I'm running out of options. I've unplugged all my hardware except the monitor, network, keyboard and mouse, and tried disabling USB devices in Device Manager. It might be quicker to reinstall Windows? Will that clean things out enough? To try and confirm that it's definitely this PC, I've tried to install on another, but it won't install the SAAB. I guess that's a licence restriction - can you help with that please?

Just to update you: I've removed X-plane completely and the Saab and reinstalled, but still not fixed. I'll keep trying different hardware configs and let you know if I ever get it sorted. Cheers LJM

OK, I'll reinstall. Thank-you for your help. I'll come back to you if that doesn't fix it, and if I work out what the cause is I'll let you know. It's great to be able to get service like this. Thanks again. LJM

Better, but still not right? Unplugged joystick and webcam. Turned off Matrox and all net connections. Tried to disable addins (XPTracker etc), but they are on when I reload. X-plane keeps crashing when I close most of the Settings dialog boxes. Cheers

And this is what it was like this morning!

I don't think it's the trim. The whole elevators are deflected, as the attached screenshot shows.

Hi Goran, Can we take another look at the problem with the elevators? They are always off-centre (nose-down). It's definately not the joystick, because if I don't plug one in the problem is still there.

Things a lot steadier now. Will keep fiddling. All the best.

Hi, That seemed much better - managed a non-crash landing! Will have another go in the morning. Thank-you very much Goran.

Thanks, It was already set to 2, so will try 3 and let you know.

I find the SAAB almost impossible to fly! I took off OK today, and follow a heading on autopilot. But after about 20 minutes the plane started to climb, and then descend, up and down like a yoyo! The autopilot was set to ALT, and when I set it to IAS the attitude leveled off. Later, after turning the autopilot off. I have to put the joystick all the way forward but only get less than -10 degrees attitude. I go to chase view and the elevators aren't responding to the joystick (the ailerons are). So, I go to the menus to check and calibrate the joystick (big mistake, I know now). All the axes are working. When I come back out of that (yes, the engines have stopped, doh!, but I get them restarted) the plane is throwing itself all over the sky and even tries to do a loop! 1) what is going on? 2) I'm using a Saitek X52 Pro joystick and throttle - is there a problem with the SAAB and Saitek? I really want to get to grips and enjoy this aircraft but how can I if it has a mind of it's own?

Well, yes it is windy today, but the elevators were moving their full travel, not just fluttering a bit. I have, once again calibrated, and they are almost straight, but calibrating usually doesn't make a difference, and they are still not quite straight. I'm afraid I went straight to calibration without checking what it had loaded like. If it were a calibration issue would the virtual yoke be off-centre too (and how can you tell)? Thanks for your help, but I am out of time now, so can we keep this conversation open?

That's made it worse! The elevators are flapping up and down now, and the engines have started themselves! (no, Start each flight with engines running is not set). Do I need to re-install x-plane, even though it's only this aircraft that's doing this? Any advice is gratefully received.

When I load X-plane and the SAAB, the elevators are off-centre. I have to pull back on the stick more than half-way through it's travel to get them straight. Joystick is calibrated in X-plane and I've click the "This position is centre" button. In the Null Zone tab, the joysitck is shown as centred. I have renewed X-plane's settings and re-installed the SAAB. The only thing I haven't tried is to uninstall the SAAB and install it again after that. Will try now, but if anyone has any other suggestions that would be great.