Starting to make little progress

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Originally Posted by mxmadman

You may not have this ability, but can still do something similar. Map all of your preflight keys in a sequence somewhere, like having 1 as fuel cock, 2 and 3 as magnetos, 4 as toggle sight illumination, and 5 as ignition.

This way you can't forget what to do, just hit the fly button and slam 1 2 3 4 5 in succession, and as long as your engine is in the proper start-up condition you'll be ready to go.

Hey mxmadman,

If I may, can I ask you to elaborate a little for me? I have been assigning keystrokes in the controller menu, actually got a lot of assigning done last night. Still have a ways to go though, as I still need to create my joystick file for my Cougar,but will be able to make use of a tremendous amount of buttons configurations.

Anyway in regards to starting the engine or engines. Obviously here in the early going, my main focus will be on single engine aircraft.

First:
The simple route - say having a button that simply does everything for you and fires the engine up - I am sure that exists, but I can not identify by what I read in the controller menu? I would like to have this mapped to a button for those lazy moments.

Second:
I am sure I will get more satisfaction by going through the actual routine as you stated above, and will have this method mapped to buttons close by on my stick, ie puncing 1 through 5 as you described.

I went back in the controller menu this morning, have begun assigning to keystrokes.
However, there are so many options it confuses me. Like in the magnetos you mention above, there is previous magneto regarding a specific engine number, next magneto, etc. I truly am unclear , with all the options available in there, what I truly need to assign to keystrokes and map to my stick? I see in addition, like a magneto toggle, etc. Same goes for things like fuel cock, radiator, oil radiator, etc...

I hate to ask for elaboration but I am really confused by all the choices... For this 5 step process as you mention, what exactly do I need to assign to complete that 5 step process?

Lastly, one of the steps you mention for starting engine is " toggle sight illumination". What is that in regards to starting engine? I do not see that command listed, at least under aircraft?

Sorry for my confusion and perhaps this is better suited in another subforum, just wanted to ask you directly here as you had already given me great tips to get me started in this control assignment daunting process..

Thanks for any help in this regard, it is truly appreciated! I really want to get much of this accomplished this weekend and actually get to spending some quality flying time with this sim in the upcoming days...