I find this incredibly complicated in XP (especially over FSX).

 

Wonder if anyone has noticed this or has any techniques...?

 

I find most clickspots in XP to be super small (plus or minus hand) making this job even harder. In a real plane you just grab things with your hand. At least in FSX I find the actual spots to click are larger and I can use the precision of the mouse wheel.

 

I flew on pilot edge last night and had a heck of a time navigating to a VOR, changing a radio freq and keeping the plane under control. I wasn't perfectly trimmed for the climb but wasn't bad either.

 

Factors are Track IR - which I pause during this process with my middle mouse button , and tiny clickspots. Also the fact that my head is down without a sense of feel complicated things further, and the over sensitive nature of planes in XP ( personal observation most planes are too twitchy maybe it's a controls curve I can adjust).

 

I know I wrote a gripe about this when I first started with XP but still wondering if people have techniques to deal with mouse VC interaction. A few addons like Carenado are pretty good but last night I flew Eclipse 550 v2 (generally has decent clickspots).

It is a chore, especially when you have radio freq and course changes at near the same time. I always have to pause the sim.

I usually toggle the 2D pit for a moment input the data and return to 3D environment. If not, I pull all my hair out..

 

;-)

If you have an iPad you could do worse than to buy the RemoteFlight Radio HD.

 

https://remoteflight.net/remote-flight-radio-hd

 

It's true, using the VC + TIR in XP is a bit like trying to thread a needle in a storm!

I don't have a tablet or ipad... got my phone but I tried their radio comm1 demo on my old itouch and the hold and drag feature did not work well at all.  Maybe it was because of my old gen 2 itouch I don't know...  I'm sure the iPad version works better though!

 

Another tough factor is the fact that I still use my trusty MS FFB2 stick and CH throttle.... and I'm right handed if you see where I'm going with this...  If I'm flying on the stick I have to let go of it (which is ok if I'm trimmed because I disabled the force FB) but then if I bump it slightly the plane could nosedive or climb/turn etc.

You could try AirTrack, this is what I use and it definitely simplifies manipulating everything.. Works on the iPhone or iPad.

 

www.ipobjects.com/airtrack

 

Good Luck

 

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