As some of you might have noticed, I missed last couple of SE Italy Campaign, thanks to the strangest glitch I ever experienced.
Followed as usual the ordinary SE procedure: switch from UP to HSFX, get into server, patiently wait for all ground objects to load, follow Big Brass’ briefing, chitter-chatter with fellow pilots (food, women and motoring, mainly) waiting for everyone to hit “FLY”…
…once lined up for takeoff, my keyboard and Saitek keypad turned out totally inactive, with no chance of starting my P38’s engines…:eek:
USB? Online connection interference with memory allocation? Corrupted UltraPack upgrade files? Admiral Canaris’ Abwehr? “Orsa Maggiore” sabotage team??? :rolleyes:
As I kept complete control of my airplanes in any other server, or in HSFX itself, when checking offline a quick mission, I started wondering what could possibly have gone wrong with my installation…
Skipping any detailed summary of all the actions I took to overcome the problem, here’s the solution: the problem was not sim-related!
Some kind of improbable selective erasure of my default.ini file, destroyed the “engine select/deselect” settings…and only them!
I had been deceived by the comparison with flying in other servers, and other missions…simply as it is, flying single-engined airplanes did not show the issue!
So, it’s the typical case of a problem solved once you don’t panic, and start taking into consideration the impossible…but the question remains: WTF can erase only numbers 1,2,3,4 from those few lines of my [controls] sections in the INI file??? 
- any chance of that QMB.ini please mate or is yours Chinese too when you look. Which I suspect it may be and it’s not that. Life is Hell