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Nov 16^th, 2010 at 4:35pm

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Is there any way to simultaneously control all mixture or prop pitch handles as well as the throttles?

I was doing a rather long flight in the Beech 18 last night and had the props pulled back to about 85% each and the mixture handles at 76% each, but there must have been a slight difference between the left and right engine. Even though the tach was reporting them as synced, I noticed a strong tendency to drop the left wing after about 45 minutes, and when I checked the fuel, the left wing had about 75lbs less fuel than the right wing. I started both engines off of the center tank, and switched them to their wing tanks at the same time, so that shouldnt be the issue.

On a side note, my US capital tour (to be converted to a world tour in the beech) is quite fun and an interesting change from the airliners I previously flew more often.

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Reply #1 - Nov 16^th, 2010 at 6:45pm

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You could use the keyboard controls. Ctrl and F2, F3 for prop, Ctrl-Shift and F2, F3 for mixture.

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Reply #2 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 5:48am

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I know it will not work for everyone, and I have not flown FS9 for a while and can't remember whether these settings are the same as FSX. But I discovered that I can assign mixture and prop to the X and Y rotations on the throttle portion of my Saitek X52 Pro. It is quicker and smoother than using the mouse in the VC. If you have Flight Controls that might allow this, go to Settings/Control/Control Axes, click on Mixture and then Change Assignment. Move the desired control on the Flight Control system and click on OK. Repeat the procedure for the Propeller. It took very little getting used to and really helps me to set the mixture/prop how I want. Hope this helps.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #3 - Nov 18^th, 2010 at 4:25pm

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DaveSims wrote on Nov 16^th, 2010 at 6:45pm:

You could use the keyboard controls. Ctrl and F2, F3 for prop, Ctrl-Shift and F2, F3 for mixture.

As Davysims is saying if you use the keyboard to control these axis' then they are all controlled equally, as in eng 1,2,3,4 together.....I would suggest to re-map these to buttons that are a little easier to use then the defaults, maybe try HOME and END, or PG UP and PG DN, or the plus + and minus - on the numpad.....you could pick one of those for the prop and then maybe use the same buttons with shift or contr for the mixture.

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Reply #4 - Nov 18^th, 2010 at 11:42pm

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Thanks, I think I'll have to use the keyboard controls for now. Though I need a new stick, the current one is probably going on 10 years now (native serial) and is a bit floppy when centered...

Can't decide between a yoke + quadrant or a X52 though.

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