Flight control unit

Summary

Basic, advanced, and premium flight control unit.

• FCU (Flight control unit) receives input from control devices, used for controlling the ship's thrusters during free flight.
• FCU is connected to an MFC (Main Flight Computer), which combines information of several FCUs and sends the necessary data to each thruster connected to it.
• This allows the use of several FCUs in a single ship.

Basic information

• A flight control unit has to be placed in an upright orientation, with the arrow design pointing forward, in order for it to function properly.
• An FCU's input instruments, suchs as buttons and/or levers need to be in the same network as the FCU, for them to function.
• Instruments are mapped to FCU's different controls (limited by the FCU's property FCUModel) by matching device fields.
• One or more Flight control units are also connected to a Main flight computer.
• Each thruster group is controlled by exactly one Main flight computer. There can be several MFCs in one ship.

A basic FCU allows forward/backwards and turns only. A basic FCU will also automatically balance the ship while manoeuvring.
An advanced FCU allows strafing of a ship from side to side. An advanced FCU will also automatically balance the ship while manoeuvring.
A premium FCU acts like an advanced FCU but adds a few more different thruster movements to allow for more advanced flying. An advanced FCU will also automatically balance the ship while manoeuvring.

Device fields

To learn more about how to use fields, consult these wiki pages:

• Universal Tool
• Data networks
• YOLOL

YOLOL field	description	range
FcuMfcIO	For connecting the Main flight computer
FcuInputRange	Scales the accepted input range
FcuGeneralMultiplier	A "soft power switch", scales all output
FcuForward	Moves the ship straight forward or combines FcuFwdBwd rotations with the forward movement
FcuBackward	Moves the ship straight backward or combines FcuFwdBwd rotations with the backward movement
FcuRotationalPitch	In-place pitch rotation
FcuRotationalYaw	In-place yaw rotation
FcuRotationalRoll	In-place roll rotation
FcuUpDown	Moves the ship straight up or down
FcuRightLeft	Moves the ship straight right or left
FcuFwdBwdPitch	Rotation combined to forward/backward movement
FcuFwdBwdYaw	Rotation combined to forward/backward movement
FcuFwdBwdRoll	Rotation combined to forward/backward movement