Folks - when using DA/MDA on higher altitude airports you'll need to enter some ridiculously high number as your landing minimum, and keeping the mouse button pressed for minutes isn't exactly a viable method (unless I miss some other, more elegant and speedy way). Would there be any chance for another, faster way of changing that setting, e. g. another clickspot that would change 1000s of feet instead of single feet per click? Also I wonder how they do it on the real deal. Or maybe they just have plenty of patience.

Folks - when using DA/MDA on higher altitude airports you'll need to enter some ridiculously high number as your landing minimum, and keeping the mouse button pressed for minutes isn't exactly a viable method (unless I miss some other, more elegant and speedy way). Would there be any chance for another, faster way of changing that setting, e. g. another clickspot that would change 1000s of feet instead of single feet per click? Also I wonder how they do it on the real deal. Or maybe they just have plenty of patience.

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can use it to set the DA/DH, it's much faster than clicking.You can also use it on the MCP.

Thanks Fareed, that one I knew but I'm still afraid of CTS from doing so... Anyone else?

I agree, landing in denver and having to dial up to 5000 ft is a PITA.I end up using the radar altimeter instead, not proper procedure but it works.

I agree, landing in denver and having to dial up to 5000 ft is a PITA.I end up using the radar altimeter instead, not proper procedure but it works.

lancealotg - that's an interesting statement. When is it proper procedure to use RA and when to use BARO? Thanks,Sam Kharey

lancealotg - that's an interesting statement. When is it proper procedure to use RA and when to use BARO? Thanks,Sam Kharey

As far as i Know:For CAT I you should use DAfor CAT II/III A DHCAT III B and C does not have DH/DA i think because are autolands.

As far as i Know:For CAT I you should use DAfor CAT II/III A DHCAT III B and C does not have DH/DA i think because are autolands.

Well CAT IIIC is n/a anyways, and IIIB may very well have a DH (which may be lower than 50 feet, for example a certain company uses 17' for their A320 fleet). Other than that, it's about correct, and in addition for any NPA you'd use BARO as well.

Anyone else?

Well, when I brought it up a while ago, someone suggested that I buy a mouse with the heavy kind of scroll wheel that you can rotate very quickly (Logitech makes mice like that). Other than that some kind of acceleration or click spot would be nice.

Well, when I brought it up a while ago, someone suggested that I buy a mouse with the heavy kind of scroll wheel that you can rotate very quickly (Logitech makes mice like that).

Ah, didn't know it was posted before. So you mean one of those scroll wheels probably made of metal? And in fact I believe I saw one in the store recently that allowed to engage and disengage the indentation. Pretty cool, now I know what this could be used for...

So you mean one of those scroll wheels probably made of metal?

Yep, that's it. Actually this is the second time I get this type of advice - first time was a couple of years ago when I complained about the same issue in the Citation Mustang. I still don't have once of those mice - and they never did anything about it in the Mustang, either

Since someone else just brought up a similar thread, I thought it would be wise to post my temporary solution to speed things up here, in case anyone stumbles across this thread in the future. Assign keystrokes to your MINS knob. Then holding down that key(s) will significantly increase your rate of change. Skipping thousands of feet won't take nearly as long as before. Way faster than mouse wheel scrolling, and waaay faster than holding mouse button. If you have special hardware like Logitech G series keyboards for example, I'd recommend mapping that keystroke to one of the G keys so you have the functions readily available when you need them.

Since someone else just brought up a similar thread, I thought it would be wise to post my temporary solution to speed things up here, in case anyone stumbles across this thread in the future. Assign keystrokes to your MINS knob. Then holding down that key(s) will significantly increase your rate of change. Skipping thousands of feet won't take nearly as long as before. Way faster than mouse wheel scrolling, and waaay faster than holding mouse button. If you have special hardware like Logitech G series keyboards for example, I'd recommend mapping that keystroke to one of the G keys so you have the functions readily available when you need them.

Thanks again for the tips. In the real aircraft the rate of change is controlled by how much you turn the knob: the more you turn the knob the faster things change. Some add-ons have options to right-click or left click to simulate this. Just wondering if some sort of facility could be added to this NGX? Cheers, Doug

Hm, the only way of doing this that comes to mind (just guessing here, as I have zero clue if it was doable in the FSX environment), would be a click and drag type operation. E. g. point mouse cursor at knob, click and hold, then adjust the "deflection from spring loaded center" with how far you drag the mouse. Would be cool if we had something like this.

I'm using Lua to apply acceleration to the knob, but it's obviously not going to accelerate the knob in the VC or the 2D panel, it's a function you can assign to a keystroke or a button to increment or decrement the mins.If you have a registered copy of FSUIPC and are interested on this I'll share the code

I'm using Lua to apply acceleration to the knob, but it's obviously not going to accelerate the knob in the VC or the 2D panel, it's a function you can assign to a keystroke or a button to increment or decrement the mins.If you have a registered copy of FSUIPC and are interested on this I'll share the code

Many thanks for your kind offer but I am currently not using FSUIPC. Cheers, Doug