Big problems with v5.04... AGAIN.

[Ray K.]

Hey everyone.

It's kind of a long story, but I'll do my best to keep it quick. A few weeks ago, my dog ate my cable that goes from the radio to the dongle. After much frustration and LOTS of help from HeliHobby.com, I was able to procure some replacement cables. So, naturally jonesing to get back on the sim, I simply plugged in the replacement cable and went flying.

It didn't take long to realize that I wasn't getting as much left aileron as right, and I also noticed that whenever I gave hard forward cyclic (as in doing a front flip), I would get an equal amount of left aileron. Not good. So I went to re-do my center calibration and channel assignments, and now it's ALL screwed up. It's just like when I was first trying to set it up, but with even more problems now.

I'm using a DX7 with a JR cable, and the DX7 is set up with it's own special model for Reflex that uses standard 1-servo swash mixing- I flew it like this with my old cable with no problem for months. Now, aside from the unequal aileron problem, it's doing some weird stuff to me during the channel assignment. When it asks for full forward cyclic, it simply doesn't recognize that I am. To solve that, I just gave it full back cyclic and then reversed the channel, and that seemed to work. However, the software is still complaining that I have channel 1 assigned to more than one function, and it constantly asks me to re-do the channel assignments. I have no negative pitch available in idle-up (it just gives me positive), and the aileron problem is still there. I had the "channel 1 has more than one function" problem when I was first trying to get it set up last summer, and I can't remember how I worked through that.

If anyone has had these problems and knows how to fix them, or maybe has some insight as to how to fix them, I'm all ears. I'm good enough on the sim to fly some intermediate 3D, and this spring will be the first time I'll be trying these maneuvers for real. So obviously, a properly working sim is pretty critical to me at this stage.

ANY help will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

-Ray

[Ralf W.]

Hi Ray,

I don´t know the DX7. But I think it should be in PPM (not PCM) mode and no mixing-program should be active at all. Just set the tx to simply work on 4 or 5 servos without any (mixing) tricks. Then press <F7> in REFLEX and select e.g. "4" for the tail rotor, "2" for nick, "1" for roll, "3" for pitch, "nothing" for autorotation, and "nothing" or "5" for gyro sensitivity. Select "nothing" for all plane settings as well as motor throttle and landing gear. This should do it.
Later you may select in <F5> "mixing pitch->throttle via tx". Then you can activate some mixing in your tx for pitch and throttle curves. And now you have to define a channel for "throttle" in <F7>.

Hope this helps...

Regards
Ralf W.

[Ray K.]

Ralf-

Thanks for the tips, but nothing really seems to be working. Even with the <F5> / throttle ---> pitch mixing selection done, the software is still insisting that my channel assignment is erroneous. Also, I can't figure out for the life of me what the Hell is going on with the channel interactions. I can watch the real-time channel outputs on my DX7, and those are all "clean"- the way they should be. When I look at the channel display on the sim, I'm getting all sorts of interactions... like forward (and only forward, oddly enough) cyclic mixes in left aileron, and left aileron mixes in negative throttle. I'm wondering if I didn't get some jacked-up cables. Or maybe my dongle is screwed up. I tried un- and re-installing the software, and that got no positive results either. I contacted MRC with my issues, but their customer support is less than great and it's likely to take a couple weeks to get no helpful answer from them. I'm seriously considering just getting RealFlight G4 and calling it a day.

Any other ideas? Is there a certain magical order I should be doing the center calibration / channel assignment / throttle/pitch mixing settings in?

-Ray

[catfight]

rayk,

Sorry I don't have DX7 but it is similar to DX6 which I use for Reflex 5.03

Here are my tx settings and Reflex settings to maybe help?

DX6

Ele REV
DR El1 100%
EXP 0%
Subtrim Ele 0
Trv Adj Ele +150%
Hld -1
PLN 40%
PLS 0%
PLH 40%
TLN 0%
TLS 100%
Mix RVU 0%
Mill AL 0%
CCP Off


Reflex 5.03
Tail 4 -
Ele 3 -
Ail 2 +
Pitch 6 +
Auto 5 -
Throttle 1 -

Hope this helps- mine works fine. I don't think the cable could have anything to do with the channel mixups because all data is serial on 2 wires - it has to be in the TX or Reflex in my opinion :0) Pay particular attention to pluses and minuses on settings.

Good luck!

[mewsikman]

Make sure you don't have it set on one of your models.........