Just a question on fs captain since I had  fsp  awhile  ago  do you have to keep  the  guage  up on the screen all the  time  or  can you  just set it  up and forget  about  it till the end of  the flight  or  you  want  to make  changes?

Just a question on fs captain since I had  fsp  awhile  ago  do you have to keep  the  guage  up on the screen all the  time  or  can you  just set it  up and forget  about  it till the end of  the flight  or  you  want  to make  changes?

 

 

You'll probably want to operate the gauge during your flight: setting lights, reporting waypoints/flight phases like TOC/TOD, communicating with the cabin crew (T/O alert) and so on.

 

Strictly speaking you don't have to do all that but, IMO, it adds to the immersion.

 

Two (2D) gauges you can choose from (old style ACARS, new style CDU), which can be undocked, dragged, resized, hidden ... whatever suits you best.

Thx Oliver   I  shall give  the demo a  go on the  week end

Ive gone ahead and bought it. alas I need some help setting it up.

I want to set up a easyJet and Virgin Atlantic company set up on it, and I also cant seem to add the gauge to the aerosoft extended

If someone could hop onto teamspeak and my teamviewer for 15 minutes or so to help me set it up, id be internally gratefull and in return would be only to happy to supply some flight plans and or charts if needed as im a qualified dispatcher

 

you can pm me  thanks !!!

 

Right now, all I can do is post, I'm afraid:

 

Gauge adding: Two things have to be added to the 2D panel of the AAX (in the panel.cfg) ...

1) ... an additional window for the FSC interface (either the ACARS-type or the CDU-type)

2) ... an invisible gauge that tracks your flight for the FSC evaluation.

 

1) The text for 1) can simply be copied from the user guide and pasted into the panel.cfg (you will have to amend the window numbering, though, to fit the number of AAX windows, +1) - it's one line for referencing the additional window and a small text block for actually defining it.

2) The invisible gauge is simply an additional line in the definition of the main panel (00) - copy&paste from the user guide.

 

- choose the AAX type you want to use in conjunction with FSC (five AAX types to choose from)

- backup the original panel.cfg of this type first

- follow the steps in the user guide slowly, one by one

- don't forget the new window number is the highest window number of the AAX 2D panel ... +1

Ive gone ahead and bought it. alas I need some help setting it up.

 

I want to set up a easyJet and Virgin Atlantic company set up on it, and I also cant seem to add the gauge to the aerosoft extended

 

If someone could hop onto teamspeak and my teamviewer for 15 minutes or so to help me set it up, id be internally gratefull and in return would be only to happy to supply some flight plans and or charts if needed as im a qualified dispatcher

 

you can pm me  thanks !!!

Don't know if  you seen this  it might help you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MppCnIiZpc8

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc8Tg9kBAXM

The V-speed calls need "Speedcall" lines in your aircraft's configuration files.  That's lines that read like such:

 

Speedcall=15,100000,106,107,123,133

 

Which would tell FSCaptain that if you're at Flaps 15 with 100000 weight, your V1 is 106, V2 is 107, etc.

 

As for your light actions, what you're doing is just fine... it's what I do when I fly... but all that FSCaptain is concerned with are the nav lights being on while the engines are running, and that you have the landing lights set properly below 10000ft.

 

I get the feeling that you're flying an aircraft that has its light systems managed outside of the MSFS standard.  If that's the case, you may need to implement one of the xml interfaces in order to have the light systems properly recognized.

 

What aircraft is giving you problems with the lights??

 

Thanks for the help, I'll try addin Speedcall line.

I'm flying with Project Airbus A320, so no advanced light system managed outside.

So, I must turn off the nav lights after I start the engines?

Right now, all I can do is post, I'm afraid:

 

Gauge adding: Two things have to be added to the 2D panel of the AAX (in the panel.cfg) ...

1) ... an additional window for the FSC interface (either the ACARS-type or the CDU-type)

2) ... an invisible gauge that tracks your flight for the FSC evaluation.

 

1) The text for 1) can simply be copied from the user guide and pasted into the panel.cfg (you will have to amend the window numbering, though, to fit the number of AAX windows, +1) - it's one line for referencing the additional window and a small text block for actually defining it.

2) The invisible gauge is simply an additional line in the definition of the main panel (00) - copy&paste from the user guide.

 

- choose the AAX type you want to use in conjunction with FSC (five AAX types to choose from)

- backup the original panel.cfg of this type first

- follow the steps in the user guide slowly, one by one

- don't forget the new window number is the highest window number of the AAX 2D panel ... +1

 

 

 

 

Hello which page of the user guide is this on ?

 

many thanks

 

Hello which page of the user guide is this on ?

 

many thanks

 

 

 

Judging from the user guide's index (  :rolleyes:  ) ... p.139 ....

Thanks for the help, I'll try addin Speedcall line.

I'm flying with Project Airbus A320, so no advanced light system managed outside.

So, I must turn off the nav lights after I start the engines?

 

Here's the Speedcall lines that I have for my AAXE 320 - but they're only for Flap 1:

 

Speedcall=1,100000,105,110,116,126

Speedcall=1,110000,112,116,122,132

Speedcall=1,120000,118,124,128,138

Speedcall=1,130000,125,130,133,143

Speedcall=1,140000,131,136,139,149

Speedcall=1,150000,136,141,144,154

Speedcall=1,160000,141,146,149,159

Speedcall=1,170000,146,151,154,164

Speedcall=1,180000,151,156,159,169

Speedcall=1,190000,156,161,164,174

 

I used to fly the PA320 quite often (I wrote some xml gauges derived from the François Doré versions, AAMOF) and had no problems with the lights.  All you need to do is to turn the Nav lights on before you start the engines (or the FSCaptain FO - which might be me - will tell you to turn them on) and keep the nav lights on until you shut down the engines - then turn the landing lights on before you takeoff and and off again at 10000 ft... then on again before you reach 10000 ft and keep them on until after you land.  (Again, the FSCaptain FO should prompt you to turn the landing lights on or off.)

 

Check your FSCaptain Interface signals while you're at the gate - pull up your FCOM / FCDU and go to the Interface Data screen (that's screen 60, IIRC) and you should be able to see the status of the nav and landing light signals (as well as other signals... the "seat belt" and the "no smoking" signs, etc.)

To those who are using pmdg aircraft with fscaptain, do you use  the auto load feature or  do you use the manual load feature. Since of  the  conflict of  using  outside  sources  to load  the pmdg aircraft?

I use the manual load Pete.

yea  that's what I've been using,  been using  the demo  version  still and  still working  things  out  still

Always manual load/fuel/PAX for me: Even some medium-depth addons could be confused with automatic loads.

Fscaptain is great, and i use all the time

 

1. The sounds volumes for the program, not user freindly to control, you have to set volume in config file

before loading FSX,

 

2. Process of adding new aircraft spec and variannts of same aircraft, is quite tricky and probab;ly buggy

I usually load the fcom in new aircraft and let it auto add the a/c, then i go edit spec, but for justflight 146 i see two planes same name have vbeen added.

 

3. No more wondering how much fuel you used for a flight, so you can evnter a/c pph to fuel calculator for next flight.

 

4. .Level of ambience is just right, not too much, not too little, but volume control is an issue for FSC, would be best if it can show on win7 volumer mixer.

 

 

5, I use the FCOM, which is great, but FMC shows up with text not too well aligned to FMC keys, so hard to tell which key does what in some cases.

 

 

Thought i'd mention these points as an FSC fan, but, in my opnion FSC works so well it could do with an upgraded to the snags its got, its a let down to a game that puts a nice bit of fun in FSX. Which in part being on time and with the right fuel.

 

The only thing i miss about GsPassenger which Fscaptain hasnt got is, live percentage that shows pax comfort or otherwise during flight. In Fspax the pax are'nt too happy about flight starting in rough weatther, they hate turbulence, or heavy G, in FSC you dont find out about all this till after you land. Something like pax xomfort would be nice to have on progress page (I hope travis is reading this)

 

 

You want to add extra fun to flying in FSX i think FSC is best way to go, easy to use, and largly stays in the background, and most importantly , cruise time is more fun.

 

I think its about time for a non free FSC2, that does not make it more complicated, but improves on ease of use, and buggs. For the volume control and the process of adding new a/c or multiple a/c of same variation, those areas are quite confuing or buggy