X-Plane Up Elevator Authority

You caught me before coffee. That’s never me at my best. :crazy_face:

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Of course! I’ll do that.

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I think that I have them upstairs on my gaming PC. Will looks ASAP.

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Thanks! But the purpose of this thread was accomplished. It’s not my control setup. You all were a big help.

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I’m considering coffee prior to my drive home. You know how it is…out all night, driving into the rising sun…just had pancakes at IHOP…sooooooo tired enroute. But as soon as the mains hit…totally wired. In the car, driving home…sooooooo tired…can’t wait to get to bed. As soon as you hit the driveway…wired! Can’t get to sleep. This aviation stuff is a curse on the body.

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When I get back from a trip, unless it was an all-day/all-night unscheduled weather and mechanical disaster, I am completely wired. It takes hours to get down from the buzz.

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I’m actually building a Embraer 135 for Air Hauler. I plan to have it as my first passenger aircraft. I don’t know if it is a good airplane in real life :see_no_evil: but the X-Crafts version is really fun in a VR friendly way.

AH-0608

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It’s a terrific flying airplane. And a very comfortable and logical cockpit (but man is it LOUD!). It had lot’s of small finishing flaws. Switches that on an Airbus or Boeing would have solid detents 30 years later, on the Embraer would be missing after a couple of years. You’d have to line it up on the mark to get an actuation until a mechanic replaced the switch. And lots of little electronic gremlins. The Embraer is where I learned “Control-Alt-Delete”; ie, powering down completely to reset a series of bugs. I flew the Airbus for four years and don’t recall once having to power down to fix an issue. And we were always sweating gas and alternates. The automatic engine anti-icing system was a cluster-fudge. Testing and trouble shooting that system was WAY more complex than just teaching pilots proper anti-ice technique. I guess taken in total it doesn’t sound like such a great plane but it really was ok for what it was designed to do. T

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