HiTec sim cable and JR 8103

[SkyCaptian]

I picked up a sim cable yesterday and have FMS and Clearview. When I hook up my 8103 and look at the calibration the controls are swapped. The throtle seems to control the rudder ect. It's almost like it thinks the controller is a european one. How can I fix this?

[shaul_ei]

Both simulators let you to freely assign any channel to any control.
FMS
Go to Mapping/Calibration window calibrate FMS and then assign the channels one by one. You move a stick (e.g. Rudder), find out what channel it is (e.g. 1) and type '1' in the field next to 'Rudder'. You can also check the 'inv' box to invert the stick's action.
ClearView
Go to 'Controller Setup'. On the left you see 'Throttle', 'Rudder', 'Ailerons' and 'Elevator'. For each of these controls there is a drop-down box on the right. Ignore the text in these boxes. Now you have to try them one by one. For example: Move your Throttle stick. Does the slider on the first line move? If it does go on to the Rudder. If it does not, change the selection in the drop-down box until you succeed.

[SkyCaptian]

Ahh. Thx. Seems like they could have just taken an extr few minutes of coding and out in the channel assignments for the most common controllers :rolleyes: One thing I noticed is that the rudder, channel 4 I think, seems to be flashing or jittering. If you look at the output the blue line flashes up and down the meter sporadically.

[Malc C]

Ahh. Thx. Seems like they could have just taken an extr few minutes of coding and out in the channel assignments for the most common controllers :rolleyes: One thing I noticed is that the rudder, channel 4 I think, seems to be flashing or jittering. If you look at the output the blue line flashes up and down the meter sporadically.

Whats the point.. with two common modes of flying, and two "standards" of channel assignments its simpler for the guys that write these sims to allow the user to map the incoming channel data to the corresponding control surface.

Try re-calibrating the interface to see if that stopps the jitter on the rudder channel.

[shaul_ei]

You have probably selected (or bound to) work in PPM which is indeed a little jittery since it is an analog modulation method. If you can move to PCM, you will probably find it more precise.