seat controls

[Bryan=0101]

As soon as I let off the up arrow key, , my clutch stops and my props die. is there anyway to make it a toggle, or something, that keeps sending it's last known value instead of having me to hold down the button?

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

Sure, plenty of ways. You can either edit the properties of the seat with the selection tool and setting the relevant axis to sticky, or use a throttle lever, for the most simple ways.

[Jorg Hammond]

If you select the seat in editor mode, you'll see that for each set of keys (a/d, w/s, up/down, left/right) you can set its behaviour to reset (the default, the output value goes more or less quickly back to 0 as soon as you stop pressing a key) or sticky (same behaviour as a throttle lever, the value stays what it was when you stopped pressing a key).

You can also set the sensitivity, which is how much the value changes when you press the key. The lesser the sensitivity, the lesser the change (so the finer the control). If you crank it up to 100%, you end up - mostly - only sending -1, 0 and 1 values out. You can see that clearly if you link a dial to the seat output.

Since you're controlling a clutch, I'm not sure if you would like to still be able to engage it partially (e.g. 60 or 80%), which a lever or a pair of keys allow you to do, but if you don't mind the clutch being either fully disengaged or fully engaged (i.e. on 0 or 1), you can do that by linking it to a toggle button or the number keys of your keyboard (1 to 6) via the pilot seat.