@Sid2008,
1. Disable your joystick in the FS menu system.
2. Start a flight with the IL-38.
3. Press one of the Shift + # keys until the joystick utility appears (I think it is around Shift+5, but I cannot remember precisely.)
4. Set up your flight controls with the joystick utility for this aircraft. Keep your joystick disabled in the FS menu system. This joystick utility overrides it.
5. After you have your joystick set up (ailerons, elevators, throttles, brakes, and viewing panning at a minimum), go through the engine start up process. Just follow the numbers on the pictures in the included documentation.
6. After you have the engines started, continue to follow the pictures to all electrical sources online.
Setting up the navigation instruments (after all the previous steps are completed):
1. Press the little black button on the lower right of the attitude indicator, and hold it until the attitude indicator stabilizes in a proper, level position. You should see some red warning lights extinguish after this point.
2. Look on the aft bulkhead behind your left shoulder. Here are the radios and navigation instruments, and their set-up stuff.
3. Notice a portion on the lower right of this bulkhead with a single dial with numbers that can be selected, and contains multiple two or three way switches below it.
4. Select your latitude with the dial. (Press shift+Z and use the first number on the left)
5. Switch the three way switch below that to MK. (Other options include AK, and RNK)
6. Press the gray button near the bottom of this panel to align that gyro. You should see a very large HSI type device start spinning on the bulkhead when you press that button. It should eventually align with your "Shift+Z" heading.
7. Switch a vertical two-way switch on that panel from Och to Kohtp, and press the gray button again to align the second gyro.
8. After this, everything should be aligned.
9. For departure, make sure all lights on the overhead are on as desired, set flaps to 15 degrees, and off you go.
NOTE: I currently can't make and post screenshots due to time, and I realize that this narrative is likely useless without them. Therefore, I highly highly highly recommend reading through the Project Tupolev Tu-154M manual. It uses the exact same joystick setup utility, and as a bonus, the gyros are set up in the same way.
1. Disable your joystick in the FS menu system.
2. Start a flight with the IL-38.
3. Press one of the Shift + # keys until the joystick utility appears (I think it is around Shift+5, but I cannot remember precisely.)
4. Set up your flight controls with the joystick utility for this aircraft. Keep your joystick disabled in the FS menu system. This joystick utility overrides it.
5. After you have your joystick set up (ailerons, elevators, throttles, brakes, and viewing panning at a minimum), go through the engine start up process. Just follow the numbers on the pictures in the included documentation.
6. After you have the engines started, continue to follow the pictures to all electrical sources online.
Setting up the navigation instruments (after all the previous steps are completed):
1. Press the little black button on the lower right of the attitude indicator, and hold it until the attitude indicator stabilizes in a proper, level position. You should see some red warning lights extinguish after this point.
2. Look on the aft bulkhead behind your left shoulder. Here are the radios and navigation instruments, and their set-up stuff.
3. Notice a portion on the lower right of this bulkhead with a single dial with numbers that can be selected, and contains multiple two or three way switches below it.
4. Select your latitude with the dial. (Press shift+Z and use the first number on the left)
5. Switch the three way switch below that to MK. (Other options include AK, and RNK)
6. Press the gray button near the bottom of this panel to align that gyro. You should see a very large HSI type device start spinning on the bulkhead when you press that button. It should eventually align with your "Shift+Z" heading.
7. Switch a vertical two-way switch on that panel from Och to Kohtp, and press the gray button again to align the second gyro.
8. After this, everything should be aligned.
9. For departure, make sure all lights on the overhead are on as desired, set flaps to 15 degrees, and off you go.
NOTE: I currently can't make and post screenshots due to time, and I realize that this narrative is likely useless without them. Therefore, I highly highly highly recommend reading through the Project Tupolev Tu-154M manual. It uses the exact same joystick setup utility, and as a bonus, the gyros are set up in the same way.
