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How the F18CGRH works
The F18CGRH is a stick with buttons and hats, analog sensors for pitch, roll and yaw
and a rotary switch.
The
Rotary switch
is placed under the
TRIM
hat switch cap, as a black ring with rotary
movement, and it allows, with a single thumb movement, to swap between the 8
configurable memory slots that the F18CGRH has, allowing to reconfigure your whole
system in a fraction of a second.
FSSB-R3 users are used to have four programmable configurations and to change
individual settings in the configuration of the side stick by the SMM.
Now, with the
F18CGRH the concept is different
. The SMM launcher has disappeared and the user
has 8 configurable slots, which allows him/her to configure the settings for 8 different
flight situations. For example, you can assign one slot for an A-A combat, another slot
for refueling, another for NAV, another for A-G, etc. You can have up to 8 different
situations. This is equivalent to having 8 different joysticks, each one fit for a different
situation and the change between them is done with a single thumb movement,
reconfiguring the whole system in a fraction of a second.
The integration with the R3L is explained below in the
F18CGRH and FSSB-R3L
chapter.
The user is informed about the slot active by the
status LEDs
, the information is
shown in binary code.
Slot 3 Slot 8
Slot 1:
off - off - off
Slot 2:
on - off - off
Slot 3:
off - on - off
Slot 4:
on - on - off
Slot 5:
off - off - on
Slot 6:
on - off - on
Slot 7:
off - on - on
Slot 8:
on - on - on
The information from the device is sent by Bluetooth or by the 5-pin mini-Din
connector. All the information is sent through Bluetooth and only the buttons status and
the rotary through the mini-Din connector. All the information sent by one or the other
way is affected by the configuration associated to the slot selected by the rotary.
ROTARY
SWITCH
TRIM HAT
SWITCH
