Input & Controls

PFC adds its own input actions and merges them into the vanilla CarContext, so they're active whenever the player is the active pilot. PFC_FlightController reads these, smooths them with per-axis slew limits, and exposes them to the flight model.

Actions & default bindings

Defined in Configs/System/chimeraInputCommon.conf:

Action	Keyboard	Gamepad	Joystick
PFC_Pitch	W/S, Up/Down	left stick Y	axis1
PFC_Roll	A/D, Left/Right	left stick X	axis0
PFC_Yaw	Q/E	left/right trigger	axis5 (twist)
PFC_ThrottleUp	Shift	RB (shoulder_right)	button4
PFC_ThrottleDown	Ctrl	LB (shoulder_left)	button5

Each analog axis (Pitch/Roll/Yaw) is built as an InputSourceSum of signed +/- halves, following the vanilla convention (the negative half carries an InputFilterValue Multiplier -1).

Input smoothing

PFC_FlightController doesn't pass raw input to the model - it slews each axis toward its target at a per-axis rate, so control response is smooth and a little "heavy" like a real aircraft:

Attribute	Default (prefab)	Meaning
m_fControlRate	3.5	Roll slew rate (units/sec; 1.0 = full deflection in 1 s)
m_fPitchControlRate	3	Pitch slew rate (slower - heavy elevator)
m_fYawControlRate	3.5	Yaw slew rate
m_fPitchInputScale	1	Caps max pitch input magnitude (0..1)
m_fThrottleRate	0.5	Throttle change per second while held

Note

The component's attribute defaults differ from the values set on the Cessna prefab (shown above). The prefab is the source of truth for the reference airframe.

Ground steering & key de-conflicting

Because the airframe rides on Wheeled_Base.et, its native car controls collide with the flight keys. PFC_FlightController.ApplyGroundSteering() runs in EOnFrame (the wheel sim consumes CarSteering before the simulate phase, so writing it later is ignored) and:

• Zeroes CarThrust - otherwise W revs the car engine and you hear the leftover turbine spin up.
• Zeroes CarBrake - otherwise S (pitch back) grabs the wheel brake.
• Zeroes CarShift - otherwise Q/E (yaw) shift the gearbox.
• Injects nose-wheel steering - writes the smoothed PFC_Yaw value into CarSteering (scaled by m_fGroundSteerScale, default -1.0), so Q/E steer the nose wheel on the ground while A/D stay roll-only. Set m_fGroundSteerScale to 0 to disable (then A/D steer as vanilla).