Help with FMS controller??

[thor4944]

I just bought an interphase off ebay and it tells me to go into my game controller area of windows...buzz buzz buzz...then I have to pick how many channels "they call it buttons" I have...I really dont know on my flash 5x??? Anyone help here....then I am suppose to calabrate it and when I try and go right..it goes left on the screen ...down is right....up is down....HELP!!!!
thanks
Bill

[William A]

The Flash 5 is a 5CH.

Can you make the model in FMS do anything ?, if so, go back to that pic I posted and skip steps 3, 4, 5,+ 6. Go right to '7' and you can adjust and change direction in there.

[thor4944]

I can make the rudder and alerons go but the alerons are opposite direction....throttle does not work at all!!!....
what pic...sorry..must have lost it..Hey william..found your pic....should I put it as joystick....that is what the guy who gave me the joystick said to do it???

[William A]

I believe so, that's what mine is on.

This is where you want to be.

[thor4944]

Yep I did that....ok back to when I calabrated my tx......Now when I did that (not with the FMS opened...I am talking to have the computer read my TX setup in windows) In windows xp it is under game controls........When I did that.....it read the rudder as throttle..and the throttle was not even read.......... and left was right.....but it did read everything.........then I get on FMS and everything is screwed..I am sorry this is so confusing....

[thor4944]

Hey william..
When I calabrate my joystic (flight yoke) to the computer the X axis is the throttle and the throttle is the Y axis......what am I doing wrong....

[thor4944]

Ok..just fixed it......my elevator and aileron where mixed up...oops...LOL..thanks so much for your time wiliam.....now to go look for some fms downloads!!!

[William A]

Right on, you got it.

Head over to Mountain Models and get the Switchback 3D model too.

[Basketcase]

Here's a couple FMS links.


http://www.rcsites.net/aeropal/

http://www.stregone.net/rc/fms/

http://kimagure-hikoki.hoops.ne.jp/index_e.html

www.griswell.com/fms.html

http://home.introweb.nl/~erics/fms/

http://lotus49b.hp.infoseek.co.jp/download.html

www.tmac.asn.au/fms_free_flight_simulator.htm

http://homepage2.nifty.com/logic_wizard/fms_j.htm

www.rcsim.de/index1.htm

www.flyingbaer.de/flying_baer_dl.htm

www.interq.or.jp/sun/cyber/fms_aircraft.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~chemsurfer/fms_models.htm

[thor4944]

wow..thanks basketcase!!!
You made my job easy!!

[oskio]

Anybody have problems with this on Windows XP?

I have version 2 beta 7 and it keeps locking up.

Chris

[thor4944]

I have XP and there was no problems here..I downloaded them from my school (6 floppy disk version) and then put it on my computer at home and worked fine...

[Alfred]

I downloaded beta 2 ver 7 and it locks up on my xp pc too. Help!

[thor4944]

I am sorry I really dont know what to do...but maybe trash it and download it again..?

[Alfred]

Did that twice already:confused:

[steve lewin]

Have you tried looking on FMS's own forum at http://cgi.ethz.ch/~mmoeller/cgi-bin/ikonboard3/ikonboard.cgi

There's been some discussion of XP problems over there but I don't remember the solutions cus I don't run Win XP.

Steve

[Alfred]

Thanks Steve

I did go to the forum and even posted, but didn't get any response.

Sigh!

I have just about given up. It worked real well with my old PC with XP, but when I upgraded, everything got better, except for FMS!

[BrianRickman]

I've found that when I use a plane that does not have a sound file, FMS will lockup sometimes. This is under Windows XP with a serial interface to a Focus 4 transmitter. If I use one of the stock planes, or a downloaded plane that has all the files (preview image, sound, etc.) I find it is much more reliable.

[thor4944]

where on FMS is all the plane models? I mean there are about 25 on fms..but I opened a folder by accident and it had like 100??? Does anyone know what folder that is? I cant find it now...
thanks
Bill

[William A]

Count the numbar of *.par files, should be 1 for each plane. The rest are support files.

[GreatGazoo]

:mad:

Hi,

I just downloaded and installed FMS for the first time on my XP machine and have problems with it freezing/locking up especially when the plane gets close to the ground. My PC is not old by any means since I am running a 1.6ghz AMD w/ 256MB RAM, and an ATI9700pro 128mb video card. It seems to be running like it is on an old 286 though. Help us please! I tried to access the FMS forums but that part of the web site is down. Maybe I should just buy "Real Flight".

Eric

[superboss]

:mad:

Hi,

I just downloaded and installed FMS for the first time on my XP machine and have problems with it freezing/locking up especially when the plane gets close to the ground. My PC is not old by any means since I am running a 1.6ghz AMD w/ 256MB RAM, and an ATI9700pro 128mb video card. It seems to be running like it is on an old 286 though. Help us please! I tried to access the FMS forums but that part of the web site is down. Maybe I should just buy "Real Flight".

Eric

I cant believe nobody has answered this question. I am having the same problem.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Supe

[slipstick]

Any ideas?

Yes. This is a very old thread. Have a look in the Simulators forum where this sort of thing has been answered many many times in the last 18 months.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=172

Steve
EDIT: I see some helpful moderator has moved this from its original location into the Simulators forum for you so just have a look round "in here" ;).