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    Non-commercial Private Pilot using Flight Sims as a form of entertainment as well as improve skills and knowledge.

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  1. Everything in an airshow (Or any formation flying for that matter) is planned and discussed on the ground. You do not call audibles during flight ops and that is what appears to have happened here.
  2. Here's what I ended up with and I think it works really well. I took a set of PFT Puma controls and connected them to an Open Wheeler racing/flight sim seat. The connection was done using the PUMA 'seat blocker' connecting it to the Gen 3 Seat frame with about $3 in hardware. The aluminum angles shown in picture are there to restrict lateral movement. The Open Wheeler set up has a ton of options to connect to the frame. I went with the HOTAS Configuration #2, which will allow me to put a throttle off the left side at some point when I want to play with fixed wing planes. For the right side I mounted the mousepad option that the Amazon seller 'Team HomeRacer' suggested (and provided for free). As an MSFS 2020 VR set up this is working out great. I have the two additional trackball buttons mapped to 'centering VR' view and 'pausing' (which opens up the game menu). I mapped one of the collective buttons to the in game menu so I can click on what I need there too. In the end this achieves the no keyboard setup I was going for. I did however buy an addon called 'Sky4Sim NG'. This has some mapping and weather functionality, but I mainly wanted it to view PDFs in VR. This adds to the ability of this being used as a VFR procedural trainer. I don't do any IFR procedural work in VR, I typically do that just sitting in front of my monitor and use my actual Ipad EFB for those things. If someone wanted to do that in VR they would probably use some of the Navigraph mods I assume.
  3. That's interesting, so you can use voice commands to program up an FMS or GTN nav device? I think I still need to get something like a Trackball mouse by my side. I'm going to order a few and test them out.
  4. When playing various flying games I currently sit at my desk with the various peripherals scattered about. The key is I always have had my keyboard and mouse within reach. I use the mouse all the time to click on anything inside the game because I find the hand controllers (G2 Reverb) awkward to use. I've tried to force myself to use them but I feel pointing the little lasers at the panel bizarre, and I can do it with a mouse click about 5x faster, easier. Here's the new challenge and why I'm looking for an alternative. I'm a pilot and am planning on working on my Rotary add on for fun. I typically don't feel manipulation of my various joysticks, yokes, etc translate well to real flying but I've heard good things about the Pro Flight Trainer Puma X on establishing some muscle memory... so I bought one. I can't cram this thing under my desk so this means I'm going to buy a Racer/Flight Sim chair that I can use as a dedicated flight sim set up. However it's not going to be in front of my desk anymore so I need a method to click those various cockpit things. I've Googled around and some people use a trackball mouse so that might be an option. However I wanted to just see what other folks have been using in lieu of a full size keyboard, normal mouse setup.
  5. Suppose I'm lucky. I played this off and on most the day without any issues that I can think of. My hardware mapped well to preferred settings and I ran everything at High and didn't even stutter. Was able to tweak the curve on the rudder/brakes and now ground handling feels good. I don't get wrapped around the physics because at the end of the day none of these games are 'realistic'.
  6. I've been able to do it with an Nvidia 970 card. I even had Bezel correction... however I got annoyed at the my line of sight right in the middle being obstructed. So now I have P3D on the left window and I'll move the GPS or other windows to the right monitor to use it that way.
  7. Just a followup, I tried a number of variables, including reinstalling everything... and all is great until I put; "model=GTN650x2 panel=GTN650x2" into the aircraft config. Would be interested if anyone is using the GTN 750s if they're still having the gas pressure gauges pegging out. Not a huge issue but this is my favorite plane so if I can fix it with some new file or config setting I would like to.
  8. I figured out a place to start with FSUIPC. For the above example you can go into Buttons + Switches and assign 'List local Panel Vars' to the key, go back into the game and press it. It creates a log in the FSUIPC directory. From that log I pulled; 430594 L:ClockVoltsClick = 0.000000 430594 L:ClockSelectClick = 0.000000 430594 L:ClockControlClick = 0.000000 430610 L:ClockSelect = 0.000000 430610 L:ClockControl = 0.000000 430610 L:ClockVolts = 0.000000 Now I know the variables I just need to figure out how to create a MCRO file in FSUIPC and get it to show up as a map-able function.
  9. I'm not sure what else you would call it. But occasionally in planes there are clickable functions that I can't find a keyboard mapping to via P3D - Settings - Control or FSUIPC vast pull down of commands. Is there a way to create one or is that something between P3D, FSUIPC and/or the plane creator? Example off the top of my head is with an A2A 172/182 plane and the Davtron clock. Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrFYbS9yzuc So this item has 3 things you can click within the virtual cockpit. Is there a way to map a keyboard hotkey to it, say Num 1-3?
  10. Question on the upgrades. I installed two files; one for Barron 55_P3Dv2_v3.150306 and B55_F1GTN_v1.150308. With the default set up everything looks correct, including the fuel pressure/flow... however when I enable the 650x2 panel, the panel works fine but the fuel gauges peg out again. Since it only does it with the 650x2 did I perhaps install that patch incorrectly?
  11. My Prepar3D installation was a mess. After a year of fiddling with it I had a mess of planes that were either freeware, FSX transfers or paid. I tried out some various scenarios, had some Oculus Rift apps, ect.. I had been working on slowly cleaning up the installation but would get sidetracked and not finished. 2.5 was a chance for me to work off a fresh install and only put on what over the last year I actually liked to mess with. For me it's Orbx scenaries, ASN, Rex and a few payware planes. As soon as I saw a majority of those things were supported I decided to make the move. I had read it took people days to do this but for me it took 3 hours. I uninstalled everything P3D related, deleted folders, ect. As I installed each thing I booted up the application to make sure it worked and then I would move onto the next. All in all it took less than 4 hours to complete everything. A lot of the time was spent waiting on installs or downloads so may have been only an hour of actively installing things. The only issues I had was having to manually move a terrain.cfg file for Orbx and patch ASN post 2nd P3D hotfix. I also took account of what I installed and in what order. - Prepar3D Academic - FSUIPC - Active Sky Next - Rex 4 - Texture Direct - Orbx - Orbx Addon Airports - Flight 1 GTN 650 Planes - B/E 55 - RV4 - CE208 - Alabeo Waco - Pipersport - Cessna 207 Wagon
  12. So as long as the planes are in the simobject folder the client will put them on the tarmac?
  13. How does AI traffic work? Does it just pull planes from your /SimObjects/Airplane directory and randomly place them around based on your traffic/airport slider setting? I came across World of AI today and would like to get some more variety of airplanes at my airports.
  14. I hope you can get back in the air soon! I've not flown in two weeks because of weather and I am going a bit crazy not flying. Today I might go visit my plane, maybe check the oil and wipe it off in the hangar. Which I guess brings me to my renewed interest in Prepar3D and setting it up to practice IFR flights. I don't have my instrument rating but plan to complete it this summer so next winter I don't get shut out from flying.
  15. Figured, was just wanting to make sure it wasn't me or something I might have inadvertently changed editing the aircraft and panel configs.
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