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How To Configure Home Sim Cockpit To Simulate Airbus Dual Stick

This document provides instructions for configuring HomeSimCockpit (HSC) to simulate an Airbus DualStick controller setup for use in Flight Simulator. It describes downloading and configuring PPJoy to create virtual joysticks, then downloading HSC and configuring it to read inputs from the joysticks to control aircraft systems in Flight Simulator according to the Airbus DualStick script.

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How To Configure Home Sim Cockpit To Simulate Airbus Dual Stick

This document provides instructions for configuring HomeSimCockpit (HSC) to simulate an Airbus DualStick controller setup for use in Flight Simulator. It describes downloading and configuring PPJoy to create virtual joysticks, then downloading HSC and configuring it to read inputs from the joysticks to control aircraft systems in Flight Simulator according to the Airbus DualStick script.

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How to configure HomeSimCockpit to simulate Airbus DualStick

Date: 21 November 2010 Authors: Tomasz codeking Terlecki ([email protected]) Tomasz ToTom Toboa ([email protected]) HomeSimCockpit home site: http://domowykokpit.pl/ (currently only in polish, english version soon). HSC Airbus DualStick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVazfRwohTk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD4GoD-gVko

Installing and configuring PPJoy


Download ppjoy (for example: http://www.simtel.net/free-download/System-Utilities-Miscellaneous-Utilities/ PPJoy/75176.html) and install. Follow the screenshots:

Click "Next" and then "Finish". --Configure the controller in FS (as usual)

You can use the other controller axis as usual.

If Your Virtual Controller is at index different than 1, You have to update file Airbus DualStick.hcps. Open it in Notepad, find const $PPJOY_VIRTUAL_JOY_INDEX { type = int; value = 1; } line and set value to Yours Virtual Controller index (1-16).

Installing and configuring HSC


Download an archive with HSC application and all required files from: http://www.homesimcockpit.com/files/HSC_DualStick.zip Extract archive to any folder You want. Start HSC by double click on HomeSimCockpit.exe file. Go to Input modules tab, from modules list select GameControllersInput and click Configuration... button.

From controllers list, select first controller You want to use for DualStick (1). Set a proper ID (2, LeftJoy for left stick, RightJoy for right stick) to indicate left or right stick. Configure method of reading controllers inputs state (3, check Sprawdzaj cyklicznie and set value to 10). Go to Osie tab page and set axes range for X and Y axis (4, Minimum to -16838 and Maksimum to 16383) - double click on cell value to edit its value. Ensure that - Axis has axis_Y ID, and X-Axis - axis_Y.

If You have two joystick with the same name and dont know which one is left or right, just pull and push it and progress bar in Stan column will change its value (for currently selected controller). Go to Przyciski tab page. Press button on selected joystick which You want to be a Take Over Button. Pressed button will be highlighted. Set its ID to TOB.

Without closing configuration dialog, select second controller for second stick and repeat above configuration (remember to set controller ID to RightJoy). Close configuration dialog with OK button. From main window click on Load... button (1) and select Airbus DualStick.hcps from directory with HSC. From scripts list select Airbus DualStick (2) and click Start script (3).

From now, HSC will start simulate Airbus DualStick logic and show special graphic panel.

You can move this panel, click and drag it with mouse. Start FS (if its not already running), minimize HSC window and have fun !

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