[mikkowl]

I tried the program today, but can't seem to sort it out. The engines keep starting and stopping, as though the throttle movement also toggles engines on/off. I'm using a CH quadron I recently bought. I was hoping to use seperate manual engine starts (not sure how I wold) but would be happy to just get the throttles to stop trying to do it for me.

Any idea what I need to check in my setup? I'm a little cross-eyed at this point.

Just the same, thank you for taking the time to make this. I've always prefered bombers to fighters. Anything that brings bombers more to life has me as an instant--if bumbling--fan

The program interacts purely by sending keystrokes into IL-2 at very high speed (when needed). The keys it chooses to send are listed, and configurable to whatever you want, in the "mikkonfig.ini" file that resides with the program. What is happening in your case is that it is sending the 'toggle engine' key in IL-2, and this means that you have not set your keys in IL-2 and the mikkonfig.ini to match. The instructions that came with it are pretty much mandatory to read But it is still basic. Just match the keys in the .ini file and in IL-2 (and also put in the correct throttle controller ID's in the .ini file), and the program will do the rest.

I'm glad you enjoy it! I'm sure you will enjoy it far more when you get everything set up. I made this program largely for myself, but as it worked so well I thought that others can make good use of it as well.

You have a CH Quadrant, with six levers and a bunch of two way switches? Hardcore. I'll definitely add more functions for you to make use of. If you could have anything you wanted as far as controlling engine stuff with your setup, what would it be? (being a bomber type pilot with 4 engines and all - I tend to focus towards making things work with dual throttles first for the twin engined planes, then expand it to the more complex 4 engined).

There's many obstacles and limitations that I am working around, but as I said, I got seperate engine start/stop, feather and prop pitch to work in my latest unreleased version. I custom made a specific switch behaviour that you might get use of on the CH Throttle as well (I have a saitek quadrant with 3 levers + 3 switches): pressing rocker switch up attempts to start engine. Pressing it down ALWAYS turns it off (so there's never any toggle confusion). It turns it off by moving the magnetos for that engine to 0 then back again, and to restart an engine in mid flight, one must first push the switch to the off position, and then to the on again and pray it starts. Pushing it down when already turned off feathers the engine, and pushing up unfeathers it, and another push and it tries to start it. Sounds complicated but isn't If you have any ideas of how things should work like, I am looking to steal them.