Usage
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After you installed the plugin, a new menu entry should appear in the "Add-Ons" menu of fsx. It has just three entries, where you can set up options, enable/disable it and check your installed version. Depending if it's enabled the "enable" entry changes to "disable".
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Setup the options of the plugin and maybe fsx
- Assign your pedals in the fsx options as toe brakes, what you've probably done already
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in the fsx options set up sensetivity to maximum and the deadzone to minimum for every controller. At least for your toe brakes and throttle axes. (The deadzone doesn't work at all in fsx. Any other setting than minimum will result in a higher lowest value of the axis.)
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open the plugin options
- choose your rudder in the upper pulldown menu
- setup the correct axis each (for saitek pro pedals theese are X for left and Y for right)
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setup the "inverted" checkboxes depending wether you have the axis inverted in the fsx options (the saitek pro pedals have inverted axes)
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enter a deadzone you like...I suggest to choose at least 1% and not more then 10% (your brakes will be applied once you're above the deadzone with a corrected output. For example if you have 5% assigned and you hit your pedal slightly above 5% you don't brake instantly at 5.x %. You then hit your brakes with 0.x %.)
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if you hit the "OK" button your settings get saved into your users folder normaly in "C:\Documents and Settings\<userName>" in the "Application Data\mpFSS\" folder named "brakeFixOptions.dat" (You should not edit this file. It's not in a human readable format. Feel free to delete it. It will be rewritten once you hit the "OK" button via options dialog)
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After setting everything up you can simply enable/disable it via the menu. At the moment you have to enable it once every sim start. That's all. I hope everthing works fine :)
A few notes:
- Keep in mind you have to keep your options in sync with fsx reguarding the input device
- Throttle will be set to idle if your thrust lever is below 2%
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If you set the deadzone of your brakes to 10 % or above in the plugin options you will probably see a flickering differential brake output in the down left corner, but the brake(s) do not actually engage
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get your correctly configured plane onto a runway ready for takeoff, save the flight, and the test if RTO works now. Get in the air and save your flight short of an ILS catch and do an autoland and test the autobrake on landing. Remember this plugin is not an autobrake plugin.. you have to have your plane correctly configured depending on your situation
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test your assigned brake key if its working after you braked at least one time with your pedals with plugin on/off. On my system the key doesn't work, if plugin off and I braked once with my pedal. With plugin activated this should work always. Push the key to turn brake on and push again to turn it off
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as long the plugin isn't in "enabled" mode you can change your device order in windows how you like to. As long as you don't change/update the driver the plugin should find the device
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if your device wasn't connected while you started fsx or disconnected it while fsx is running with a disabled plugin.. everything should be fine once you connect the device you can simply enable the plugin
mpFSS – brakeFix