FS2002 Landing Gear Problems

[notrogerramjet1]

Can anyone help me out?
Whenever I fly, in fs2k2, my planes will always mysteriously lower the landing gear. Only to raise it up again, a short while later.

I'm already hot under the collar because of this.
Someone show me the light, because I would like to finish off a flight session, having enjoyed myself.

Thanks

notrogerramjet1

[microlight]

Hi, Not Roger - welcome to the forums.

It's an interesting one - I haven't experienced that. The first thing that strikes me is - are you using a joystick, and if so, have you got the landing gear mapped to a joystick button? That's how I have it with my Logitech Wingman. It might be an issue with the joystick calibration (unlikely to be the keyboard unless you also see repeated g's in a wordprocessor, or something like that).

If you haven't got the add-on module FSUIPC then I'd advise strongly to get it and use it in FS2002 - it has many features, one of which is that you can calibrate the joystick much better than you can with the Windows calibration utility.

That might solve your problem - FSUIPC is available as a free download here at this site. Let us know how you get on.

[Hagar]

This sounds more like a hardware problem to me. The first thing I would check is your joystick & keyboard connections & even the mouse.