Newbie needs help with controller

[GTO]

Hi all
I am a newbie to this forum and to the FMS program so please excuse me if the question I am about to ask has been covered before as I am sure it has.
I have a Logitech wingman that I am trying to set up but I just can not seem to get it to work.
The joystick is showing up in the windows xp game profile and the sticks seem to work when I opened the joystick interface but I just can not get any aircraft to do anything.
Not sure what to do

Cheers

Rhys

[phildc]

When you select joystick and got to calibration in fms, do you see the 'bars' react to the stick movements?

You can 'explore' your joystick with
where you can select joy 1 or 2 in the menu, then press the JOYSTICK button to observe sticks and buttons.

Phil.

[GTO]

Hi Phil
Thanks for the reply. The slider bars are movng with the movment of the joystick.
The right stick I can get the up and down and the calibration bar moves but the left and right movment does not seem to move any slider bar. I am trying to figure out what assignment the channels should be for aircraft and helicopters

Cheers

Rhys

[phildc]

[GTO]

Thanks guys

I seem to have the controller working, just need some minor adjustments but apart from that thinks work well. What a great programe having lots of fun . Silly question but, will using this programe help much in flying real RC helicopters.

Thank once again

Rhys

[phildc]

Does it help much?
No, just getting the basic reactions, but that already can help.
More expensive simulators get closer to reality.

Phil.

[Flyin Newbie]

I am new to the FMS site and downloaded the sim already. This may seem like a stupid question but how do I get the plane to fly. I have installed a model already but cannot fly the model. Any help would be great.

Thanks

[Steve Lewin]

What are you trying to control it with ? Joystick ? RC transmitter ? Keyboard ? What happens when you try to fly a model ?

Steve

[Flyin Newbie]

I am trying to fly a model with the keyboard. I cannot get the plane to move forward. I used the keys and nothing worked. Any suggestion what could be wrong.

[Steve Lewin]

Have you tried checking that you're using the correct keys ? Controls/keyboard and click on the control, e.g. Throttle up, then press the key you're intending to use. It often causes problems if you're using a laptop with no separate numeric keypad.

Other than that, you're not trying to fly something that needs a handlaunch are you ? If so you'll need to press R to get it moving.

OTOH I can't fly most things with the keyboard either....it's much too hard.

Steve

[ncmoosc]

Ive got a dynam 6 channel receiver that plugs into the usb port how do i use it to fly the helicopter? like which position does the 5ch gyro go up down? the mix on or off? gear/pit do i spin it around or doesn't mess with it? left stick can i use it as throttle? right stick can i use it to turn my heli?
what about the 4 sliders what do i do with those? when i launch my FMs software and go to calibrate joystick the mapping do i click all the boxes? do i move the numbers around? when click calibrate and move the sticks in circle and finish the helicopter doesn't do anything what am i doing wrong? i thought this would be easy plug in and fly. it was easier to fly my honey bee till i crashed after 6mins flight. Ive been trying for 3days till i found this forum but still cant the heli off the ground. As you can I'm real new at this and hope to start practicing till my parts come in for my honey bee if theres a sight that gives precise directions and pics to calibrate controller would be help full thanks

[Steve Lewin]

Do you want to calm down a bit and try again, I've no idea what you're talking about ? Never heard of a 5ch gyro, "the mix" or a gear/pit. Don't know any 4 sliders.

Calibrate, following the instructions then make sure you have filled in the correct channel numbers in the boxes on the LH side of the screen (based on which blue bars move when you move the sticks). You need the bottom 4 which control the helis, Tail moves tail left/right, Nick pitches forward/back, Roll rolls left/right, Pitch is equivalent to throttle.

BTW the thing with the sticks on that you wiggle is called a transmitter. The receiver is the bit in the heli.

Steve