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the flysimware cessna 414 is insanely good
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the milk machine posted:the flysimware cessna 414 is insanely good Their Learjet 35A is pretty good, even for early access.
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I tried running Microsoft Flight Simulator on my phone via Xbox cloud streaming and ... it still needs a 50 GB download ... ... somewhere??? Is there a datacentre holding my flight sim data  Other things streamed effortlessly.
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Jan 10, 2024 20:56
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You've been chosen to babysit the flight sim install on the cloud servers.
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Jan 10, 2024 20:59
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I picked up a Stream Deck to get myself some extra buttons while using the honeycomb yoke, and ho boy is this another massive thing to learn about and endlessly tinker with. Not...quite as easy to set up as I expected.
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Jan 11, 2024 18:55
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Squiggle posted:I picked up a Stream Deck to get myself some extra buttons while using the honeycomb yoke, and ho boy is this another massive thing to learn about and endlessly tinker with. Not...quite as easy to set up as I expected. yeah I got a stream deck and loupe deck to gently caress with both.. they both went back to amazon.. they're neat but neither one does everything prefect.
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Jan 11, 2024 19:26
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I tried using my Streamdeck for DCS once and quickly noped out of it. That being said, I do use it for non-flight sim things and it works well. Squiggle posted:I picked up a Stream Deck to get myself some extra buttons while using the honeycomb yoke, and ho boy is this another massive thing to learn about and endlessly tinker with. Not...quite as easy to set up as I expected. I originally read this as Steamdeck and was thought that was a really odd choice if you were looking for extra buttons. 
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tater_salad posted:yeah I got a stream deck and loupe deck to gently caress with both.. they both went back to amazon.. they're neat but neither one does everything prefect. I have a Loupedeck since I wanted the knobs and I mostly prefer the hardware (though I wish the square buttons were actually buttons) but the software is painful. Crashes regularly, the Hue integration can't handle a computer going to sleep, and there's very little software support outside of media production apps. The Stream Deck software ecosystem looks a lot more complete.
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 As a Raspberry Pi-type nerd, this is pretty fun to figure out! Spent the morning setting up some tiles for X-Plane and the DHC-2 Beaver using the PilotsDeck plugin for it. Put some informational squares on there for things that aren't easily found in the cockpit, and added some switches and AP buttons mainly to practice the on/off tile logic. The Fuel Sel, Lights, and Autopilot buttons go into deeper menus, and now that I understand how to pull sim variables out of XP12 and make the buttons read if something is on or off in the sim, it's smoother sailing. I'm going to go nuts making profiles for my chosen frames, I can tell. It's definitely "advanced" though, and I had to do stuff like convert how the game factors fuel flow - kg-per-sec - into gal/hr for the tile, or piece together which sim variable means "yes, the APR function is on" without also lighting up the NAV button. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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Jan 12, 2024 01:06
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I love the Streamdeck XL for flight sims. I've got a DCS plugin that can basically turn it into the UFC; it can even pull in the text of the dynamic multi-function button thingies. You can also pull in data from MSFS for current autopilot heading, alt hold info and all that stuff.
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wolrah posted:I have a Loupedeck since I wanted the knobs and I mostly prefer the hardware (though I wish the square buttons were actually buttons) but the software is painful. Crashes regularly, the Hue integration can't handle a computer going to sleep, and there's very little software support outside of media production apps. The Stream Deck software ecosystem looks a lot more complete. Problem for me is loupe deck software doesn't allow left/right modifier keys so my main things I wanted to use it for were Flight sim.. and Arma. It's useless for Arma. so 270 it just wasn't worth it for me.
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Does anyone have MFG pedals with the damper mod? I'm ready to pull the trigger on it but the damper is out of stock.
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JayKay posted:Does anyone have MFG pedals with the damper mod? I'm ready to pull the trigger on it but the damper is out of stock. Reposted from discord with permission: No! But… Someone on the airgoons discord uses an AliExpress damper: quote:
If that's too much of a faff, I think the general conclusion is “not as such, but yes, it's a great thing to have”.
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I have MFG pedals without the damper and never once wish I paid the extra....Tippis posted:Reposted from discord with permission: ...yeah maybe I'll do this.
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Have we talked at all about the "Yaw man Arrow" controller? https://yawmanflight.com/ 
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I saw it on reddit and I don't get it. Seems overly expensive for what the quality looks like. I guess it's a matter of them being a smaller operation, but it looks like a prototype that you see in a video retrospective.
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Also those sliders look like they'd break off the first time the controller gets dropped
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The market has to be tiny, though. People who want to flight sim and aren't satisfied with a normal controller, enough to pay extra money for this controller, but don't want to pay a little bit extra to have a semi-realistic setup. That's five people on Earth, at most.
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The only market I can think of is playing a flight sim while you're traveling. For the same price, you can get a decent HOTAS setup or a yoke.
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i wish the vkb gladiator had some kind of set screw or something to keep it attached to the base because i severed the drat button wires for the second time when i tried to lift the joystick and the stick popped out. this time severed right near the grip with barely any room to solder. Doesn't look like you can take apart the grip easily to replace those wires so it might just be buying a new grip soon if they let me do that
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Cojawfee posted:The only market I can think of is playing a flight sim while you're traveling. For the same price, you can get a decent HOTAS setup or a yoke. Xbox players.
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Jan 17, 2024 02:47
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Can you rebind the controls on xbox?
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ethanol posted:i wish the vkb gladiator had some kind of set screw or something to keep it attached to the base because i severed the drat button wires for the second time when i tried to lift the joystick and the stick popped out. this time severed right near the grip with barely any room to solder. Doesn't look like you can take apart the grip easily to replace those wires so it might just be buying a new grip soon if they let me do that … it does? There’s three small screws that go in from the underside to lock the grip to the base. It’s easy to miss putting them in, though - I did the first time I put a VKB stick together. Kalman fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Jan 17, 2024 |
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Jan 17, 2024 03:02
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Kalman posted:… it does? ok i looked at those yesterday and thought those might be to secure it but they didn't look right when i held it up to the light. but that would explain me being the only one with this problem though. now you know i probably lost those screws after a year
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I've seen people talking about this issue, I think it's early model non-evo sticks that don't have the screw? VKB support will send you a new wire if you send them a message though, you shouldn't need a new grip.
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skooma512 posted:Xbox players. It isn't Xbox compatible.
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slidebite posted:Have we talked at all about the "Yaw man Arrow" controller? The creator has explicitly stated that the intended use is for people using flight sims in hotel rooms while traveling, definitely a niche case. Unfortunately it’s wired, I travel with a play station controller and use it on X-plane mobile on my iPad with a video adapter plugged into hotel screens. There’s definite utility in using flight sims on the road to help maintain proficiency, and my favorite example is PILOT which was a space shuttle flight simulator carried on the Space Shuttle to let the pilots get a chance to practice landing after 2weeks in space. http://www.airaffair.com/Library/Archive/Part2/space_shuttle_PILOT
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That is kind of neat. Any info on this, as in photos of what it looked like? Searching for PILOT, nasa, shuttle simulator, as you imagine brings up everything but. Cojawfee posted:I saw it on reddit and I don't get it. Seems overly expensive for what the quality looks like. I guess it's a matter of them being a smaller operation, but it looks like a prototype that you see in a video retrospective. oof, yeah, $250. That seems a little dear. PT6A posted:The market has to be tiny, though. People who want to flight sim and aren't satisfied with a normal controller, enough to pay extra money for this controller, but don't want to pay a little bit extra to have a semi-realistic setup. That's five people on Earth, at most.  Speaking of, any news on Honeycomb?
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hot date tonight! posted:I've seen people talking about this issue, I think it's early model non-evo sticks that don't have the screw? VKB support will send you a new wire if you send them a message though, you shouldn't need a new grip. I'm not sure which I have? I bought it in april 2021 and the order says 'Gladiator NXT - GNX Premium Right 1 $150.00' is there a more recent version of the stick?
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I do like the idea of having slightly more controls than an xbox controller, but not a full HOTAS, for like, flying a cessna in the sim when I don't want to set up everything and all that for a larger flight or something with more complex controls. That said, I don't think I like that idea enough to buy a thing like that controller. I'd probably just settle for using my Thrustmaster Airbus sidestick since that's an easy get out/put away and just skip the honeycomb stuff which is always the "I guess I didn't want to fly that bad." That said.. Flight sim on the go doesn't sound terrible - When I visit a new area or work or something, one of my first things when I get home is often to fly around it in Flight Sim, just because its neat to see an area I just newly visited from the air. The real kicker here is I can't imagine packing an xbox controller with extra things that look breakable in a carry on just do that. That thing is gonna get busted up so fast unless it has a bespoke case.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I do like the idea of having slightly more controls than an xbox controller, but not a full HOTAS, for like, flying a cessna in the sim when I don't want to set up everything and all that for a larger flight or something with more complex controls. That said, I don't think I like that idea enough to buy a thing like that controller. I'd probably just settle for using my Thrustmaster Airbus sidestick since that's an easy get out/put away and just skip the honeycomb stuff which is always the "I guess I didn't want to fly that bad." The xbox controller controls with MSFS are horrible. I wish there were some modern joystick similar to some 90s sticks, like this. Analog joystick but small footprint. You'd still have decent control for takeoff and landing but most of my flights are on autopilot so dragging out the HOTAS is a chore. 
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I miss the gravis mousestick I had for a macintosh. I could fly Hellcats and F/A-18's with it, and then use it as a mouse afterwards. as a mouse it would snap back to the center of the monitor when you let go, so you could just aim it at your button and pull the trigger then let go. it was sick.
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For sake of the derail, X plane on mobile works pretty well with a controller. Not amazing, but plenty flyable for a phone flight sim.
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X-Plane 12 can look pretty sometimes.  Departing Eagle County Regional Airport (KEGE) in the Avia71 Aerostar 601P. AutoOrtho 0.7.1 + Accumulated Snow 1.0.1 + [XPGFS] NOAA Global Weather
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Sebastian Flyte posted:It isn't Xbox compatible. Wrong RAM, iirc
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JayKay posted:X-Plane 12 can look pretty sometimes. Yes it can! Been working with autoortho, X-Earths, and a gradually-growing list of plugins to pretty it up while learning to fly the Zibomod 737-800. Been having some trouble with the extended night lighting mods, since it's just completely dark outside the object rendering radius, but daytime looks pretty goddamn good, especially at altitude.  Over Moab, on the way to Vegas from Denver. Hell, even VFR altitudes are looking pretty good:   Thanks for the Accumulated Snow recommendation, that looks like hot poo poo. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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ethanol posted:I'm not sure which I have? I bought it in april 2021 and the order says 'Gladiator NXT - GNX Premium Right 1 $150.00' Yeah the evo is the updated version, and I've seen people with the original discussing your issue and saying that VKB sends out free replacement cables. I'm not entirely sure what the differences are between the evo and the older one though. I've got the evos and they definitely have solid screws preventing the wire break issues.
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Does anyone have advice on how to restart the TBM following a mid-flight engine shutdown (base Asobo TBM, msfs)? So mid flight I did a dumb and accidentally scrolled the mouse wheel while having the weight and balance menu open and reduced my fuel to zero. The engine immediately died. I've been able to restart other planes, mid-air, by going through the normal engine start procedure, but they've all been piston engines like the xcub, 152, etc (not sure that makes a difference). Anyways, I couldn't, for the life of me, get the TBM's turbo prop to restart and eventually I stalled and just quit to menu, which also dumped my Neofly mission progress. So is there an alternate procedure to restart the engine? Does the residual ITT temperature prevent a restart? IAmNotAPilot nor do I have anything more than a cursory knowledge of how turboprops actually function compared to a standard combustion engine.
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