After landing I shut down engines 2 and 3, which sets the rpm high and the red flap comes down…so when I park everytime I press Shift+E ans then 3 the stairs deploy. However if I set the propellers to low rpm and the flap is up…no stairs.

Hope this may be of some help, and I’d sure like to know if this works for anyone else.

Regards Paul.

Very strange indeed – I have not recently flown a completed flight in the L-188 (engine start, take off, land, engine shutdown) – so will have to try that and see what happens. I’ll let you know. I seem to remember a post on one of the discussion forums speculating about conflicting commands being sent having to do with engine startup and the stairs but nothing to specifically act on.

Up to now the stairs have never worked for me under any circumstances – I’ve reinstalled the original package, tried installing the 2 fixes etc – nothing seems to work. On the KBT P3 model the “\ “key raise and lowers the stairs no problem

Thanks for the follow up

Bill

Further to my earlier comments…I have completed three more flights today in the L-188, and although I couldn’t get the stairs down before the flight…Every time I pressed Shift+E and then 3 the steps came down every time…strange.

Regards Paul.

I may have spoken too soon…last night the stairs were working fine, however this morning NOTHING.

But I did a flight from Washington DC to La Guardia…NO steps before take-off…however when I arrived at La Guardia…STEPS.

Seems to be an itermittent problem within the software… as you commented very frustrating.

I too can live with the stairs not working…but it’s so much better when they do.

Regards

Paul

Thanks for this update – glad things worked for you – still doesn’t work for me – I also have PFE but I rarely use it and it is not connected when the stair problem occurs. I’ve checked key assignments and nothing else is assigned to the 3 key so this is very frustrating.

It’s surprising that Team KBT has not addressed this issue since I have seen a number of complaints about this on the major flight sim forums and KBT is usually so detail oriented. As I think I mentioned one of the beta testers said this was a continuing issue during development and was never satisfactorily resolved. Even so – this is a brilliant release and I can live with the stairs not working.

Thanks again for all your help

Bill

I finally managed to get the stairs to work using Lito’s suggestion.

I tried his suggestion a few times and it didn’t work, however I use Pro Flight 2000 Emulator Air Traffic Control add-on.

Before I connected it tonight I tried Shift+E and then 3 and it worked.

However when I connected PFE I couldn’t get the stairs to close.

Then I realised PFE uses the 3 key for various commands, and when I disconnected the program, the stairs went back up.

So maybe if you’re using third party software, it may be clashing with the 3 key.

I have since got around this problem by allocating the 3 key to one of the buttons on my Saitek Pro-Flight control column and the stairs work fine.

Just a final note … you must press Shift+E, and when the door is fully open press the 3 key.

Hope this helps…Regards Paul.