July 29, 201213 yr I'm sorry, I thought we were talking Flight Simming. That's okay..............as my real life GPS's (six different aviation models over the years), haven't broke or lost signal since 1994. That's 18 years now. Always have carried two in the plane, though.
July 29, 201213 yr After all the glowing reports I broke down and got the legacy (even though I only got the Turbine Duke a week ago) It really is the most amazing GA experience in FSX I have ever had. Everything about it oozes quality! The sounds, the RXP integration, the FDE. This must have been a labour of love for Sean and Rob! Glenn Ryzen 3700X, X570 Pro Wifi, 32GB 3600mhz RAM, Nvidia Titan Xp "Galactic Empire", RM750x PSU, H700 case, 2x NVMe M2 SSD, 1x SATA SSD
July 29, 201213 yr After all the glowing reports I broke down and got the legacy (even though I only got the Turbine Duke a week ago) It really is the most amazing GA experience in FSX I have ever had. Everything about it oozes quality! The sounds, the RXP integration, the FDE. This must have been a labour of love for Sean and Rob! Told you so! It REALLY is the best.
July 30, 201213 yr RealAir truly did a fantastic job. I was just up at Oshkosh for Airventure 2012 and saw around ten Legacy's sporting about. The external model looks spot on ... just like the real things on the flight line at OSH. Most of them have glass cockpits now, but a few still had the steam gauges. I took a bunch of pics of them. I'll post 'em up in this thread soon.
July 30, 201213 yr One more question: the config panel says that when you let the plane start cold and dark, fuel should be off. However, when I start a flight fuel always is on both. I'd like to have it on off... And I also noticed the parking brake is off: I'd like to have that one on! Maybe I should simply save a default flight with everything setup the way I want it.
July 30, 201213 yr I wonder if she allows for those kind of settings to be saved as the default startup state. Maybe that cold&dark setting from the control panel can be altered on the actual switch positions. I guess your solution with a saved flight may do the trick in the meantime or you add some extra xml code to make sure she gets initialized that way.
July 31, 201213 yr I wonder if she allows for those kind of settings to be saved as the default startup state. Maybe that cold&dark setting from the control panel can be altered on the actual switch positions. I guess your solution with a saved flight may do the trick in the meantime or you add some extra xml code to make sure she gets initialized that way. Every now and then the engines and everything is already started up directly after starting FSX while the config panel shows it should start cold and dark. Weird. So I finally decided to make a default flight with everything as I wanted it: cold and dark, fuel off, parking brake on. So I loaded the plane on the airport of my choice and because everything was running AGAIN I turned it all off manually and saved the flight. After starting FSX again and loading a flightplan, I started the flight and... everything was completely off but the prop was turning and the plane shaking as it does after engine start... No sound (apart from the wind), all switches off... Odd...! So I decided to add the DisablePreload=1 tweak to the FSX.cfg: maybe somehow some settings were left over from my last flight...? After doing that the plane finally was as I wanted it: cold and dark, fuel off, parking brake on. Awesome. I really like it that also all radio's etc. are off: I always hated it in other airplanes if that wasn't the case. BTW I did my first VOR flight with the Legacy this evening and since this is the first time I have an AP at my disposal to fly the radials (I only used VOR in Flight up to now) I decided to try a perfect approach (OLM ILS or LOC RWY 17): with the AP it's of course a breeze to fly the exact radial and at exact altitudes. It was fun and it worked well, up to the ILS landing, apart from the outbound radial intercept (for the procedure turn). I was slightly too late with turning the AP to NAV so that might have caused it but the plane was constantly flying left and right chasing the CDI... I finally took over control and switched to HDG mode after that. Anyway, it worked okay and in my next flight I will use triangulation to get to my destination. I liked doing that in Flight but since I had to fly manually I usually flew somewhere beside the radial and often missed my destination... with the AP I expect to fly on the radial perfectly!
July 31, 201213 yr After starting FSX again and loading a flightplan, I started the flight and... everything was completely off but the prop was turning and the plane shaking as it does after engine start... No sound (apart from the wind), all switches off... Odd...! So I decided to add the DisablePreload=1 tweak to the FSX.cfg: I miss FLIGHT... it's all so simple on FLIGHT's land.... It was fun and it worked well, up to the ILS landing, apart from the outbound radial intercept (for the procedure turn). I was slightly too late with turning the AP to NAV so that might have caused it but the plane was constantly flying left and right chasing the CDI... I finally took over control and switched to HDG mode after that. Anyway, it worked okay and in my next flight I will use triangulation to get to my destination. I liked doing that in Flight but since I had to fly manually I usually flew somewhere beside the radial and often missed my destination... with the AP I expect to fly on the radial perfectly! Being bad again... Did you ever heard about a sim called ELITE ? Even more bad... Even this great bird fails in properly modelling the recip engine as it should, meaning, proper MP variations with RPM cycling :-(... Well.... Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
July 31, 201213 yr So I decided to add the DisablePreload=1 tweak to the FSX.cfg Sounds like a good outcome with that tweak in place. Me says you did good on the NAV mode by actually avoiding it close to the station. This should keep you away from chasing the needle (being a fixed term) and the necessary large bank angles to do so, including a lot of AP over-corrections The manual heading and a close look on the indicator will do, at least that's how I understand it so far. A fixed radial is a fixed radial of course, but since they converge at the station, the assumed loss of accuracy defaults to a very small value. Way better than the hectic AP (not a Realair fault) trying to chase left and right and actually never succeeding. Even funnier in the cone of silence of course, although that special behaviour is dependant on the smartness of the AP system. Even more bad... Even this great bird fails in properly modelling the recip engine as it should, meaning, proper MP variations with RPM cycling :-(... Well.... I think you are seeing the downsides of the FSX inherent (piston) engine modelling. While I personally wouldn't overstress it, it's surely there. Prop rpm sounds, fuel flow readings, all those values are bound to that model and you will find a ton of planes acting like FSX orders them to do. Which may be different to rw engines. That being said, I wouldn't allow it to ruin the experience. There's so much right or immersive on this and other planes and the devs did amazing things to make the flying a fun experience. I think A2A models quite some engine stuff outside of the sim, maybe just because of the FSX models in place. I don't know, but I assume it's the cause. So perhaps take a look at the Spitfire, P40 or Mustang, but don't forget enjoying the Lance too. The Aerosoft Katana may also give you some details you might like.
July 31, 201213 yr I started the flight and... everything was completely off but the prop was turning and the plane shaking as it does after engine start... No sound (apart from the wind), all switches off... Odd...! Hello See post 41 in this thread where Rob explains it somewhat: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/375494-realair-lancair-is-out/page__st__25
July 31, 201213 yr Hello See post 41 in this thread where Rob explains it somewhat: http://forum.avsim.n...ut/page__st__25 Thanks. Seems that disable preload might indeed be a good tweak for this plane (amongst others).
August 7, 201213 yr I use the Reality XP GNS 530 now in my Lancair but since it can't load flightplans I am thinking about adding the default GPS500 as a popup to the plane. Quite often I plan flight low and (not too) slow through valleys and I can get a long way simply remembering where I have to go and also by using the Terrain view, but sometimes I would like to take a peak at the plan and since I don't like alt-tabbing out of FSX (and since GMap for Android doesn't support flightplans yet) I was thinking about adding the default GPS as a popup. Not for regular use (I HATE popup windows in FSX) but in case of emergency. I don't think this would be a problem, right...? The popup won't interfere at all with the rest of the plane, I think. Or am I wrong? BTW I see my parking brake is still off when I start a flight (even though I posted earlier on that I fixed it): everything is the way I want it apart from that brake which is a pity. Someone has any other idea to fix this? I already tried editing the savegame manually but that didn't help at all.
August 7, 201213 yr I use the Reality XP GNS 530 now in my Lancair but since it can't load flightplans I am thinking about adding the default GPS500 as a popup to the plane. Quite often I plan flight low and (not too) slow through valleys and I can get a long way simply remembering where I have to go and also by using the Terrain view, but sometimes I would like to take a peak at the plan and since I don't like alt-tabbing out of FSX (and since GMap for Android doesn't support flightplans yet) I was thinking about adding the default GPS as a popup. Not for regular use (I HATE popup windows in FSX) but in case of emergency. I don't think this would be a problem, right...? The popup won't interfere at all with the rest of the plane, I think. Or am I wrong? BTW I see my parking brake is still off when I start a flight (even though I posted earlier on that I fixed it): everything is the way I want it apart from that brake which is a pity. Someone has any other idea to fix this? I already tried editing the savegame manually but that didn't help at all. Why wouldn't you add a 'default' 530 popup - it will load the Flight Planner flightplan. There are lots of them around in the various add ons and at Friendly Panels. That way you are not mixing two Garmin versions. Ray When Pigs Fly . Ray Marshall .
August 7, 201213 yr (and since GMap for Android doesn't support flightplans yet) Wandering off-topic, but I was just about to buy the GMap for Android app, and can you expand on that a bit? The patch-notes and a couple of FSWidgets forum posts seem to indicate that GMap for Android can load FSX flight-plans.
August 7, 201213 yr Wandering off-topic, but I was just about to buy the GMap for Android app, and can you expand on that a bit? The patch-notes and a couple of FSWidgets forum posts seem to indicate that GMap for Android can load FSX flight-plans. In another topic I said that I I looked at the Android app for FSX last year but noticed it doesn't support flightplans. TweakFS (FSWidgets) responded as follow: True, it didn't support the magenta line drawing due to an Android WebView limitation, however we are now preparing V3.0 and this will support the magenta lines as we have completely rewritten the mapping engine which uses SVG for rendering lines to get around that limitation. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/378531-gmap-for-flight-will-no-longer-connect/#entry2409861 So I wonder what you have been reading...? Perhaps those remarks were about the PC version of GMap...?
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