CCPM
Demixing
CCPM is a
system for helicopters which uses a combination of servos in
order to produce the collective pitch reponse. Most transmitters
let you disable this mode, and if yours does then you should
deactivate the CCPM mixing before using your transmitter with
Phoenix.
If your transmitter
does not allow you to disable the CCPM mixing, then you can
use the CCPM demixing system in Phoenix to negate these effects
and successfully use the transmitter in the simulator.
Please be
aware that this does not produce 100% perfect results, and you
will need to use the software idle-up and throttle-hold functions
(usually mapped to a keyboard or switch).
Calibration
The first
step is to calibrate your transmitter using the special advanced
mode. This is accessed through the normal system
> your transmitter menu:
After accessing
the calibration wizard, click the advanced button
at the lower section of the wizard:
This will start the advanced
calibration wizard:
This is a special calibration
sequence which obtains the seperate extents of each stick in
turn.
The sequence starts as normal
with a centralising stage. Once you have made sure that all
sticks are perfectly central, press the continue
button:
This stage
asks you to move the throttle stick only to
both its extents - up and down. The important thing to take
into account in this stage is that you only move the
throttle stick up and down - do not move this stick left or
right, and do not move any other stick.
After you
have done so, press the continue button.
The wizard
will now prompt you to repeat this with the rudder, elevator
and aileron sticks. For all sticks, you must only move the stick
in the direction of travel, so for aileron you should only move
the stick left and right - without letting the stick move up
or down.
After you
have done so, you will be asked to move all switches or sliders:
In this stage
you should only move switches which are programmable - i.e.
do not move any rate, throttle-hold or idle-up switches - only
the switches which can be used for extra functions.
Once you have
done so, press the continue button to progress to the next step
of CCPM demixing.
Semi-automatic
demixing
After calibration
is complete, you will be taken to the semi-automatic demixing
stage. Again, the first step is to centre all of your sticks
once more:
Once complete, press the continue
button:
The next stage
asks you to move just the elevator stick up and
down - again, without moving it left or right. Once you have done
so, the continue button in the bottom-right of the menu will become
active and you can click it to progress.
The wizard will
next prompt you to repeat this process for the aileron stick.
Again, please make sure that you only move the stick in the correct
direction. Pressing continue will progress you to the next screen,
where you will be asked to repeat the same steps with the throttle
stick:
This completes the main steps
of the process:
This screen
shows you a preview of the process on the bars to the left-hand
side of the menu. Generally the first four bars will be your four
main sticks. Each stick should move one red bar, and should affect
the other red bars very little. If one of the other four bars
moves a large amount when you move the stick associated with another
bar, you may wish to repeat the process again, taking more care
to only move the stick in its normal axis.
You can also
use the manual fine tuning menu to make small
changes to the demixing:
This menu lets
you make fine adjustments to the settings produced by the automatic
wizard process.
The fine tuning
process lets you proceed through each channel, and adjust the
amounts that the other channels affect it manually.
The bar/channel
selected at the top is the channel that you are currently adjusting.
This bar should only move if you move the stick which controls
it (e.g. if the elevator channel it should only move when you
move the elevator stick). If the bar moves when you move one of
the other sticks then you should adjust the slider alongside the
channel which is affecting it until it does not affect it any
longer.
For instance,
if on the example above the stick which controls channel 3 is
affecting the bar at the top when this stick is moved, you should
adjust the slider alongside the channel 3 until the bar at the
top stays as central as possible.
Once you have
obtained the best possible results, you should click the accept
button, and the finish button on the
main CCPM menu. |
