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Title: Wing leveler
Post by: Dragnhorn on February 03, 2011, 02:22:26 AM

Hi all,
  Someone posted they wanted to get rid of the wing leveler in FSX because on autopilot alt hold you can not turn at will.   I d/l a program from fightsim called "ffwlutil_v310.zip" that takes care of this problem.  Be advised I haven't used it myself yet, but will shortly.

Cheers,  Dragn

Title: Re: Wing leveler
Post by: Avian on February 03, 2011, 03:43:38 AM

Actually you can over ride that pretty easily by hitting the heading autopilot on and then off again, now you can turn freely while still maintaining altitude autopilot.

Title: Re: Wing leveler
Post by: Doug on February 03, 2011, 07:59:25 AM

Yes ... the wing leveler program is actually "in" the FAQ page. It is an important utility. When we fly the FS (Flight-Seeing) flights, we maintain an altitude of 1200 feet and then we can make the turns ourselves. On the Real Air Scout, the autopilot turns on the wing leveler in such a way that you cannot turn it off. A "ROL" comes up ... so you have to go completely out of autopilot mode to turn at all.  The wing leveler program does its thing, but when the autopilot kicks on, even after you've run the program, the ROL kicks in and is in place. I asked Real Air about it, they said that's the way most people prefer it.  Uh, guess I'm not most people. Love the Scout, perfect for flying our area ... but not with that [stupid] feature built-in.  Darn, that's an "expensive" package too, $45 US?  Ouch, for something I won't use.  (Any body want to buy a "slightly used" Scout?

Title: Re: Wing leveler
Post by: Dragnhorn on February 03, 2011, 08:42:33 PM

Thanks for reminding me where I saw this file Doug!  lol   I knew it was here but I couldn't find in (in my haste)    ::)

Title: Re: Wing leveler
Post by: spud on February 04, 2011, 11:34:07 AM

Doug,
went to the FAQ section found the wing leveler blurb, clicked on the 'find it HERE' link and it just takes me back to the top of the FAQ section every time.  Can you check the link?  It seems to be incorrect.
Thanks
 ;)

EDIT:
Well, I just went back into the FAQ section and tried again after posting this.  Like going to the dentist with a toothache, now the link works just fine.  As they used to say on TV
NEVERMIND
 8) (<-incognito)

Title: Re: Wing leveler
Post by: Doug on February 04, 2011, 12:10:57 PM

Thank you ... not sure what wen screwy with that link.  Try it again, Drag ... want to make sure it works for you.  I reposted it anyway.  I was having some funny things happening here computer-wise last night ... the counters wouldn't come up and only about half the graphics on the forum. Both computers ... but nobody else had a problem. So the problem was "local" ... who knows what evil elves dwelleth within theses strange boxes!

Doug