I get it to snap up, but it returns to off and will not stay engaged.  Huummmmmm?????
Might sound crazy to you, Lou, but try to alter your click technique. I experience this behavior on various switches around the flight deck and if I click somehow slow the switches stay where I like them to.

Try to click and hold the mouse button shortly.

I get it to snap up, but it returns to off and will not stay engaged.  Huummmmmm?????
Mine works fine. It wont stay up if there isn't any External Power (of course), but if I do have EP the switch goes up and stays up.

Maybe this isn't so important: I have started a thread about it; Pushback and turns aren't possible? As I say in my new thread I had installed Rob berengredts' gauge to be able to do this: I like to start my flights as realistically as possible from the gate...But turns aren't possible.

Have you tried using the Ship+P+1 (for left) or Shift+P+2 (for right)? The following is from FSX help regarding pushback.

Pushback

Most of the time, the aircraft parked at a gate in Flight Simulator will be the larger planes, like the Boeing 737, Boeing 777, and the Boeing 747. These planes must be pushed back from the gate before they can taxi to the runway. In the real world, this task is accomplished by a "tug," a small tractor designed for the job. When you're parked at a gate in Flight Simulator, you'll need to have your aircraft pushed back before you can request a taxi clearance.

To get a pushback

  1. Press SHIFT+P to push straight back.
     - or -
     Press SHIFT+P and then press 1 to turn the tail of the aircraft to the left as it pushes back.
     - or -
     Press SHIFT+P and then press 2 to turn the tail of the aircraft to the right as it pushes back.
  2. Press SHIFT+P again to stop moving back.

After the pushback, the ATC menu includes a Request Taxi option.

I do this on all my Captain Sim aircraft and it works fine for me.

Mark

Hi Bernardo.

If the Ground Handling Gauge is the one I think it is, I thought it had the capability to turn some of the sounds off, like the brake sound.

As for the FSX Push Back, it can take a while before it does start to turn, but I'm not sure just how long. Many time I press SHIFT+P and wait a while before pressing #1 or #2. And as long as I don't mouse click anything or press another key, this will work fine. This works on all my aircraft, the default ones and the Add-on ones. I don't understand why it doesn't work for you.

Mark

I park my 727 at whichever gate I feel like. There doesn't need to be a visible pushback tug there, an invisible one will do it.

Well I did a test with the 727-100 and the pushback works, but not as well as in other aircraft. It is very slow to pushback to a 90^o angle. This is probably best said as The angle of the pushback turn is very shallow when compared to other aircraft like the CS757, which has a much tighter turning angle.

The difference is that the 757 does it in about 1/3 of the distance as the 727 does.

I also want to explain how I tried to see if I could make it better. I went to the [contact_points] section of the CS727-100 aircraft.cfg and changed entry number 8 (the 8^th entry after the "=" sign) in the hope that it might help.
From the FSX SDK help file: 8 (180) Steering Angle The maximum angle (positive and negative) that a wheel can pivot (degrees).

[contact_points]
//point.0=1,   42.20,  0.00, -11.45, 1600, 0, 1.323, 45.00, 0.6, 1.30, 0.6, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 230.0, 270.0
point.0=1,   42.20,  0.00, -11.45, 1600, 0, 1.323, 70.00, 0.6, 1.30, 0.6, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 230.0, 270.0

In the highlighted area above 45^o is the original and 70^o is my change. It made no difference whatsoever. So unless Lou can inform us that this is true of the performance of the 727. I'll call it bug.

Mark

Hi Mark: Yes it doesn't make a difference;Thanks for your research!

audiohavok;Thanks for joining in this quest. I did as yoou adviced...My Num Lock was on...I am using the top row numbers,not NumPad numbers. Still didn't help...? Pushed back straight. The pushback says one has to press Shift+P Inmediately fallowed by 1 or 2; I don't know if I can draw a gun much faster than I'm pressing 1or2  ;
Anyway I installed Robs' Pushback and Taxi gauge last night and it seems to be doing the job; Oh and Mark The intructions of how to get rid of the annoying brake sound were on the "readme" file;So i didn't loose them after all. I applied the changes and it works.Even with Robs' gauge the turning radius is enormous

Bernardo

HI Mark: That is true; I agree. something is definately wrong with the pushback sequence of the 727. I do the same with my default or other addons Shift+P then 1 or2 depending whicch way you want to turn. But my 727-100 V2.4 only goes on straight lines as I've been saying.

...Now even after installing Robs' gauge the turn ratio is enormous,even after setting it at 90º
So there's still work to be done...Or we could just slew as you suggest?

I just checked again and the turning angle si wrong,even using Robs' gauge; As you say Mark

[quote]
[contact_points]
//point.0=1,   42.20,  0.00, -11.45, 1600, 0, 1.323, 45.00, 0.6, 1.30, 0.6, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 230.0, 270.0
point.0=1,   42.20,  0.00, -11.45, 1600, 0, 1.323, 70.00, 0.6, 1.30, 0.6, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 230.0, 270.0

Didn't make any difference,Robs' gauge isn't either; So I canonly guess that the code is completely wrong in the 727-100; Hope Lou has a look at this?

i was just wondering if the trim issue has been taken care of by any update. i'm referring to the one this real world 727 pilot is talking about in his review on this product.

http://airlinersim.blogspot.com/2009/03/captain-sim-727-captain.html

thanks,
CaptH

I installed version 2.4 but I found that I still needed to install a lot of the mods posted here and at avsim, specifically the cfg fix to slow down the trimming speed, the EPR fix, the altimeter rollover fix, and the don't sink fix. I don't see these bugs listed in this thread, so I am wondering if I didn't install version 2.4 correctly. Would someone tell me if version 2.4 corrected these items from the mod1.1 on this forum and the version 2.3 mods from avsim?
Thanks,
Ted