Hi,

 

I borrowed a Track IR 4 with the PRO clip from a friend. To try how it feels to fly the RA C172 with that kind of setup. I now have a decent setup for some sim practice, to complement training on the real C172.

 

I setup the Track IR and setup the Center and Pause buttons to the yoke and set some speed and smoothing values as I saw fit.

 

When I started to fly, I faced two problems (I am running a 27" / 1920*1080):

 

- I tried to get the kind of setup "centered" that feels like sitting in the real cockpit: close enough, high enough (but not too high). It seems no matter how hard I tried to twist myself for find the proper spot to hit "Center", the view was always "off" when I re-positioned myself to the proper seating position (after hitting center). Sometimes it was close, and then I went to try to adjust it a bit, and then it was even more off :).

 

So: what is the easiest way to get a perfect Centering position for my physical seating position, that I could replicate in the sim over and over? I don't want to spend an eternity finding perfect center each time I fly. There must be some trick to this...

 

- I couldn't get the adjustments quite right to produce a relatively fast and smooth viewing of both sides (and a little over, maybe 100 degrees to each side), which didn't move so much about when I re-centered my head (I mean, after I looked to the sides and then returned my head to view forward). It seemed that the center view was not a very stable position, if I wanted to have fast enough a side view (so that I didn't need to twist my neck to see 90 deg left/right). Is this just something that one needs to live with, if one wants "speed" enough to check both sides (that the center then becomes a little too sensitive) ?

 

 

I am a total newbie with TIR, so sorry if the above seems stupid and easily correctable :). I think there was some kind of slope setting, maybe that could help with the problem #2 ?

 

 

Tero

 

ps> where does EZDOK come into play here?

Hello

Go here and grab the optimised_Flight profile, this will help

http://forum.naturalpoint.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=38618#Post38618

Although written for the V4 software, the same principles apply in V5

Study the section regarding the slopes

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Knowledge_Base&op=show&kid=384

Another one here

http://snomhf.exofire.net/trackIR.html

EZDOK really helps with that as you can move the eyepoint easily within the sim to where you like it and you can set different cameras to points where it is difficult to "twist" yourself with just the Track IR or different zoom levels. Therefore it stops you having to have to play around with the center button and you can sit naturally with the Track IR.

Definitely recommended although not quite as essential in small GA planes as it is in airliners.

You could also adjust the eyepoint values in the specific aircraft's aircraft.cfg file. That is the most effect and permanent manner to adjust the pilot's viewing position in my option. EZCA work well, but, if you don't have it why pay for software when you can do the same thing relative to the pilot's view for free.

 

Hope you get your issue worked out.

 

Regards,

The center position should be the middle of your monitor at a natural level for your eyes (so the center and a little more towards the top)... this should help align things in FSX. Keep in mind you will have to center your view throughout the flight...