Hi All, I have been fooling with my C130 that has the floats. I open the flight in some designated water strip and as I'm going through the routine of turning on the lights, (I truly hate having to use the mouse to flip on Nav and markers etc. But oh well), the plane is motor boating down the lake, river, or port!

The only way I found to stop it is to use the reverse throttles on and off for a few moments. But if I'm into some search on one of the panels or pre-setting radios, A/P or anything else I have to put it in the pause mode. The problem with that is the changes I make are not shown until I take the flight out of pause.

Actually, I think some changes, (like switch movement), do move even when in pause but there are other things that don't. Still, is there a way to reduce the idle?

I even tried feathering the props, (I think those 2 levers on the far right of the throttle quad are the props), but I can only pull the levers back a short distance before the engines cut off. I guess they're something to do with mixture... :)
Thanks

Try this. After starting the CL130 US Coastguard (with floats), press F2 ONCE (a quick tap). I find that it stops it from going forward (stops it if it IS moving forward too) and it won't go backwards either. Even after pressing F1 to return the throttles to the the STOP position, it doesn't move forward again.

I can't remember if this worked every time, but I do know it works.

Mark

Thanks Mark! I'll give it a try as soon as I can get on it.

ctrl E may also reduce your idle speed. I have a similar problem on the ground. If I don't use ctrl E, I'll creep forward even with the parking brake on. Haven't tried the CL130 yet, so I don't know if this will help.

As Mark said, using f2 to get neutral pitch should help.

Lloyd

LloydC130 wrote on Sep 6^th, 2011 at 4:31pm:

ctrl E may also reduce your idle speed. I have a similar problem on the ground. If I don't use ctrl E, I'll creep forward even with the parking brake on. Haven't tried the CL130 yet, so I don't know if this will help. As Mark said, using f2 to get neutral pitch should help. Lloyd

I am at work right now so I can't check: on the throttle pedesdal I found 4 green switches that when applied stops the C130 also. I also apply the parking brakes.

ottoramsaig wrote on Sep 12^th, 2011 at 5:09pm:

I am at work right now so I can't check: on the throttle pedesdal I found 4 green switches that when applied stops the C130 also. I also apply the parking brakes.

Those green switches don't stop it happening to me.
Using parking brakes in the water sounds funny. I'm not saying that they don't work, Ive never tried it. Yet!
The parking brakes shouldn't work in the water in FSX.

Oh well. I'm off to try the parking brake on the water. I hope it works, it would be a great help. Maybe the parking brakes in the CL-130 is really an anchor! ;)