(yes I searched)
How do you increase/decrease throttle for a jet and KEEP IT THERE? Whenever I use 'W' it goes all the way to 100% but when I release it drops to 0%. I have NEVER played a flight sim that did this and I did it on 286s when you ONLY had a keyboard to fly with. Is there something wrong with my installation?
If it is not possible to do this with the keyboard WHY THE HELL NOT? It makes absolutely no sense to have the throttle work this way. I have tried changing the configuration to my mouse wheel and looked around in the .con files but it would take me several hours of work to go through all the combinations to see if any will result in being able to 'set' throttle to a power % and leave it there (exhaustive search method).
Finally: yes...I know....get a joystick....it is better. I agree. I have several joysticks but all of them are the old pin style and none are USB (which I have to have with my current setup). I'm not going to buy one right now because I don't plan on flying very much. However, I could go a long way (NOT AS GOOD AS JOYSTICK PILOTS) if I could just get a constant throttle.
BTW: for old school Helo sim players you'll notice that the collective setup in BF2 is the "simple" control style found in "real" helo simulaters. The "realistic" controls you have to constantly match your throttle (angle of the blades) to fly.
How do you increase/decrease throttle for a jet and KEEP IT THERE? Whenever I use 'W' it goes all the way to 100% but when I release it drops to 0%. I have NEVER played a flight sim that did this and I did it on 286s when you ONLY had a keyboard to fly with. Is there something wrong with my installation?
If it is not possible to do this with the keyboard WHY THE HELL NOT? It makes absolutely no sense to have the throttle work this way. I have tried changing the configuration to my mouse wheel and looked around in the .con files but it would take me several hours of work to go through all the combinations to see if any will result in being able to 'set' throttle to a power % and leave it there (exhaustive search method).
Finally: yes...I know....get a joystick....it is better. I agree. I have several joysticks but all of them are the old pin style and none are USB (which I have to have with my current setup). I'm not going to buy one right now because I don't plan on flying very much. However, I could go a long way (NOT AS GOOD AS JOYSTICK PILOTS) if I could just get a constant throttle.
BTW: for old school Helo sim players you'll notice that the collective setup in BF2 is the "simple" control style found in "real" helo simulaters. The "realistic" controls you have to constantly match your throttle (angle of the blades) to fly.