[ceege1]

I've put my raise and lower flap setting key onto my mouse roller and now I have almost unlimited flap setttings instead of the standard three settings you have as default. My question is how do you get the degree of flap you have to show up on screen, ie 30%, 20% etc etc. I have seen a screen shot of this somewhere in your forums with a Hurricane at 30%flaps , but I can't remember where.
This is the post where I found out you could do this in the first place..... and its a great idea, far more realistic.

Just need the percentage numbers on screen now and I'm sorted, can anybody help on this please ?

Ceege1

[BH_Blue]

howd you set the mouse wheel for flaps?

[ceege1]

Go down the bottom of your game control settings and you will see the HOTAS part. Click the flap setting as if you were going to map a new key on your keyboard ,but click your mouse wheel instead.

Worked for me, its really cool.

Need to know what degree the flaps are at though ,its a guess for me at this stage until I figure out how to get the angles on screen.

[RAF_Leigh]

ive got it on my X52 throttle

very nice and i can tell cos it clicks when its at 50%

[Saburo Sakai]

i have my flaps set to the slider on the 52 throttle, i get minimum 1% increments on the flaps. trims are set to the wheels

[Murph]

I have the "throttle wheel" on my CH Fighterstick set to control flaps- but I also don't have any text message on screen saying what percentage of flaps are deployed. It would be nice if this could be added to the custom speed bar.
For now I also have two buttons assigned to "flaps up" and "flaps down"- if I set flaps with the slider, I can hit "flaps up" and I get a text saying "combat flaps" "takeoff flaps" etc., and it tells me how far I've set them. Not perfect, but a useful technique until we get a percentage readout in the speed bar.
If prop pitch is set to a slider, it gives readouts in 1% increments, I don't know why it does'nt do so for flaps.

[Murph]

Saburo San- do you get a screen text in 1% increments when deploying flaps?

[Saburo Sakai]

Saburo San- do you get a screen text in 1% increments when deploying flaps?

i have all the hudlog turned of so i get no messages at all :wink:

[Bearcat]

I've put my raise and lower flap setting key onto my mouse roller and now I have almost unlimited flap setttings instead of the standard three settings you have as default. My question is how do you get the degree of flap you have to show up on screen, ie 30%, 20% etc etc. I have seen a screen shot of this somewhere in your forums with a Hurricane at 30%flaps , but I can't remember where.
This is the post where I found out you could do this in the first place..... and its a great idea, far more realistic.

Just need the percentage numbers on screen now and I'm sorted, can anybody help on this please ?

Ceege1

I just look out the window. (Not trying to be funny or flip.)

[WWSandMan]

Need to know what degree the flaps are at though ,its a guess for me at this stage until I figure out how to get the angles on screen.

Some -certainly not all- aircraft have a gauge on the instrument panel showing more or less precisely which degree of flaps are deployed.

Other aircraft -some Spitfire and Hurricane models come to mind- only have two flap position settings by default: raised and lowered. Those two settings can be overcome in some cases by using a "slider" or wheel/rotary control to operate the flaps. "Gaming the game" (or more precisely "gaming the game's limitations") is often heard when one makes use of those non-standard or unintentional attributes in the game however.

[Murph]

Some of the planes' flaps are not visible from in cockpit, such as the Buffalo, Wildcat, P38 etc.
Some have some sort of animated cockpit control, but most do not.

[Uther]

I have a Saitek throttle quadrant,and my flaps are on one of the levers,with throttle and pitch on the others.No on screen messages,but in most aircraft I fly you can just look at the position of the lever in cockpit.