After hearing from most of the heli group (YOU NEED A SIMULATOR) I get one acctually 2. The first one I got off ebay it was the FMS with the cord to hook p your controler. Didnt work come to a screen with a stuka and my controler desnt work. Will not calabrate or anything. Im using a conquest radio with the program. So then I say we maby lets try another one. I buy the easyfly with cable and quess what. My controler wont do anything. And the when I moove the mouse around the curser jumps from one place to another. Whats the deal.
I have a AMD-6-2 processor, 10.2 GB hard, 64 ram I just donot understand whats going on. thanks for any help

What OS are you using. The different cables for FMS are particular to Win95-98, Win2K and XP.
I have FMS and Win2K and use a cable with a PIC microcontroller in it.

Also check the correct com port in FMS under Control- Resources.

I am using win98. My keyboard will work the sim but the controler will not. I wish I could figure this out so I can get some sim time in before I start with the raptor. But I guess if I dont get it working I try the old fashion way.

What type of interface is it (parallel/serial/joystick/PIC serial) ? What options have you tried under "Analog controllers" ? What have you set Resources to ? Is the transmitter switched on ? Does anything happen in the mapping/calibration screen when you hit the Calibrate button ? Do you know the transmitter works i.e. does it work with another Tx and a buddy cord ?

Steve

Its the cord that hooks in to the printer on the FMS and the easyfly it goes in the joystick. The controller works I learned to fly with it its a futaba conquest fm and even tryed a Airtronics rd 6000 no go. Nothing happens when I callibrate it. I have tryed all settings on the sim not sure what to do on the comp.

So you have 2 different interfaces connected to 2 different ports on your PC and you've tried them with 2 different transmitters and all settings and no possible combination works ?

1. Airtronics won't work with a Futaba lead, the connections are different (even if the sockets do look the same).

2. If you have really tried all settings and your Futaba Tx doesn't work at all with either lead/sim then I would suggest the Tx is dead, the battery is flat, you haven't switched it on or the buddy socket doesn't work (you can check this by seeing if it works *as a slave* with another Tx on a buddy lead).

Other than that perhaps by some weird coincidence BOTH leads are dead or both have plugs which do not seat properly in the radio socket.

Steve

Hi,

I realise this isn't a cheap solution but if you get one of the Tx to USB interfaces it makes a Tx appear to be a standard joystick to ANY pc program so with a single interface you can control almost all r/c sims (and almost all PC games in fact) and the nice thing is that, apart from the first issue of Win95 almost all subsequent versions of Windows have USB support so, on the whole, it doesn't matter what version of Windows you have (or if you upgrade from one to another).

I've got the USB-JSIM from Ken Hewitt at www.rc-electronics.co.uk and think it's a great little interface.

Cliff

I've got Easyfly. Yup, the mouse does that on mine too. This only happens on the main menu as there are no menus on the main flight screen.
BTW, the lead that comes with Easyfly is a 9 pin serial lead with a JR plug. There is a JR to Futaba adapter in the package. I'd have to look at my copy to see what's going on, but I'd guess that you need to assign the lead to the correct COM port.

As easyfly come with its own serial adapter, I don't think you can control it through the joystick port.

I went through exactly the same steps with flight sims:
FMS then Easyfly then Cockpit Master them Ripmax RC sim then finally G2.

Only 3 steps to go before you finally get the right sim for a chopper!

Returned the easy fly and bought the real flight g2. Smartest thing I ever did a word for everyone if you want a real sim get the G2 everything else is just a head ache.

Thanks for all the help.