Cycle Flight Controls
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During ramp starts, part of the checklist is to cycle the flight controls. The stabilators, however, often get “stuck”. Not in terms of not moving, but in terms of they stay wherever you leave them. This always goes away by the time I go through my before takeoff flight control cycle, and I don’t know what causes it. It’s nothing serious, just an annoyance that makes cycling the flight controls a bit frustrating on the ramp. What I’m wondering is if this is some sort of feature, or a bug.
Thanks for any insight!
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Use the “BIT” switch on the fly control Panel ! It makes the Job automatically!
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@CAG:
Use the “BIT” switch on the fly control Panel ! It makes the Job automatically!
Well here is another RL versus sim thing with a suggestion like that. If it is cold outside you really do need to slam the stick around some to start to warm up the fluid/components. If you try to do a FLCS BIT when everything is still cold you can get a fail just from things being a bit too cold.
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Well here is another RL versus sim thing with a suggestion like that. If it is cold outside you really do need to slam the stick around some to start to warm up the fluid/components. If you try to do a FLCS BIT when everything is still cold you can get a fail just from things being a bit too cold.
Well you are right as we can read here! But that solve not the problem that he don´t want to have hanging flaps and stabs after his manuell test! They will be back in correct Position after he do the BIT test also! :idea:
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I always perform the BIT Test. Before that, however, one is supposed to manually cycle the flight controls. It is on the official BMS checklist. My problem is not that the controls don’t move, it’s that they (stabilators only) stick in whatever position they are left in. Is this simply the hydraulic fluid thing, or is it a bug? Again, the problem goes away by the time I start taxiing, so it’s not really an issue. Especially if it’s a realistic feature, rather than a bug.
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It is a known bug linked to the WOW initialisation or something like this. Will be fixed next version.
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So if you took off, landed, shut down, started up, and did the cycle controls again it wouldn’t have this wrong behavior?
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It is a known bug linked to the WOW initialisation or something like this. Will be fixed next version.
Ah, so it is a bug. Thanks for clearing that up.
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So if you took off, landed, shut down, started up, and did the cycle controls again it wouldn’t have this wrong behavior?
Should not.
