Just received my order of these detents by @hotbso.
They aren’t bad. They work… I ordered these with the hope they would have more feedback when dropping the levers into the detents (like the default detents) but alas they are about the same or slightly worse feeling than the ones I’d printed myself using the @StaceyAEH template. Though I don’t know if this is the fault of either designer. Also CL detent is a bit lower down giving less of a manual range.
Reverse idle ‘detent’ I don’t really get, doesn’t really provide any useful feedback at all to me except for making the levers harder to push out of full reverse.
Finish is much better than the ones I’d printed myself so can’t fault that
Personally I think I’ll be going back to the ones I printed from this template. @LesOReilly4451 maybe you find this helpful?
I downloaded them today as a matter of fact… But now trying to figure out why my Printer is doing ■■■■ work… Looks like I need to Level it again and maybe figure that out… Anycubic Mega X and it feels like the center of the plate is higher than the sides… makes it harder to get a decent print all of a sudden…
I am not sure if I would say as common as a refrigerator…. But maybe more like a table saw or mitre saw….
Where people that like to build or tinker would acquire these tools though they may not use them more than a few times a month.
However access to rental or paying for online printing starts to exceed the convenience/accessibility to the resources.
Example the library has them but they are/were hard to book and still have to drive out there and wait or comeback. Max 2 hours on maker machines…. Etc…
I always thought that people having 3D printers are actually professionals that actually make a living out of making them and selling their services. Like table saw too. I mean I like to tinker myself, but I’m okay with just having a screwdriver set at home. But I guess I understand what you mean.
The have come down far in price for something that is decent… But still requires attention. Meaning you have to sometimes “tinker” with it to re-Level… Modify settings of the model you are printing… Modify the temperatures due to the PLA maybe having absorb moisture… dealing with environment changes on the temperature as the seasons change…
But if you take the printer I have … Anycubic Mega X it is $600 dollars regular pice Canadian… currently it is on sale for 509… On Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale it was only like 399… Which makes buying one as a hobby affordable. I built an Ardunio Autopilot with it, I printed off under counter mount for my Echo Show 8 — which as an example could not find any commercially available for this but on thingverse there were a few designs… download and print… done…
If you were doing it for professional things then you are looking at very very expensive machines but they do all kinds of things like auto level, they have chambers for the Material so that it maintains humidity and temp levels… Plus they will support multiple Materials/colours at the same time … very very powerful…
Arrived today and I like it. Climb range is now a lot better than before. Would be cool to get some stickers like in an Airbus to put on the leavers. As you got no 3d printer like me it was a good buy.
Hi
where did yoo get the updated Flypad from.doesn’t matter which version i download it still has the old Flypad .i used the latest installer and tried both the dev and exp versions,still no new Flypad.
thanks for any help
steve
The Flypad has been aroud for quite a while, but I’m not sure which one are you referring to? The one in the video post that you replied to is actually the old flypad, now. So if you’re seeing a different flypad now than the one in the video. Then you’re actually already in the new flypad.
I am getting a little desperate here, if there’s anyone that can help me, I will truly appreciate it. I have the TCA Quadrant and for obvious reasons I wasn’t happy with the detents provided by the manufacturer. So I 3D printed the upgrade mentioned earlier in this discussion (for some reason I can’t paste links here).
I think I got it working pretty well with the FBW A32NX (as it is very easy to configure inside the cockpit). However, I want to use it with the default A320NEO as well (I bought some tutorial lessons which use the default plane that can’t be changed). And I am pretty lost setting the sensitivity in order for it to work with the new upgraded detents. The creator of the upgrade provided some settings on the website, but they don’t work at all. I don’t need exact sensitivity settings for that exact upgrade (as they can be a little different for every version), I just need some guidelines on how to make it work.
Please, does anyone know how to configure it? Thanks a lot in advance!
Hi, thanks for your reply. It’s mainly because I have these lessons which I bought and they use the default A320. Also, I thought maybe it would be more universal to set it in the options menu in order to make it work with other Airbus aircraft in the future (in case they don’t have this nice feature that allows me to configure detents in the cockpit).
I believe having a universal setting is very difficult. I recommend to create a separate profile for each aircraft. I have a separate profile for A32NX, and A330-900neo. The A330 is closer to the default A320. So I always switch profiles depending on the aircraft I’m flying. That way, you can have a separate sensitivity curve for each profile.
Sure, I have no problem creating a separate profile for each aircraft. But I have no idea how to set the sensitivity for any aircraft other than FBW A32NX - the quadrant is set to linear in the options menu - everything at 0% and I calibrated each detent on the tablet inside the cockpit. That I can’t do with the default A320 (it doesn’t offer calibrating each detent). So is there any way to set new detents in the sensitivity options in the main menu? Or do I need to change the .ini file of the aircraft? (that, however, I don’t know how to find for the default A320).
You could start with the default profile. The default sensitivity curve is already designed for the default A320 in mind. You just need to do small minor adjustments to line them up, but most of the calibration is pretty much good enough.
That’s what I did. Default profile works with the default detents. I just don’t know how to calibrate it with the new detents which I printed. That’s why I wanted to know if there’s anyone who’s had the same problem and can tell me at least approximately which settings to use in order to line them up.
