Going slightly OT here, have any of you who use TrackIR ever tried flying FSX with an xbox controller?

 

I can appreciate it's chalk and cheese, but the right hand analogue control for looking around (automatically set up by fsx by default) is the next best thing to TrackIR. Joystick hat switches aren't in the same league. From subtle movements to full head swings to tracking something in the scenery they're excellent and they have the added bonus that they ALWAYS snap back to the perfect default view when you're done, they never go out of sync or lose track. There's no movement just rotation, but they are superb.

 

It annoys me to death that joystick manufactures haven't cottoned on to this simple addition that would make a world of difference to simmers.

Come on guys - please keep this thread clear for questions. There's a perfectly good discussion thread for all the other stuff.

While I don't use it myself - using a Saitek based hardware panel - my heats off for this.

 

Kind regards, Michael

 

(as one of those on preorder already and looking forward to it)

 

 

So we listened, we fed the development team a bunch of coffee and set them to work overnight. The end result? DTG Flight School now supports TrackIR. We need to do some QA testing on it, but it is in there. 
 
- Martin 

 

Many thanks Martin, 

Looks like Flight School will support TrackIR after all. They just needed to test it.

 

 

So we listened, we fed the development team a bunch of coffee and set them to work overnight. The end result? DTG Flight School now supports TrackIR. We need to do some QA testing on it, but it is in there. 

 

- Martin

Here are the details:

 

"Want to get hands on with DTG Flight School? Dovetail Games is proud to announce it has been selected as part of the EGX Rezzed 2016 line up through our partnership with Microsoft and the ID@Xbox programme -http://shout.lt/bvD6d. The event takes place at the Tobacco Dock in London, Apr 7-9. Swing by and get a first look at Dovetail Games Flight School and say hello to Aimee, Martin and a couple of other members of our team.

 

Full details of the event can be found here - https://www.egx.net/rezzed"

I just brought the tickets for Friday since I'm planning to go to London on Friday anyway.

Martin, thanks very much for taking part in this thread and for TrackIR support 

 

 

It is still too early to be talking about multiplayer in DFS. We will of course cover it in detail closer to the launch. 

 

Fair enough -- I look forward to it (and will keep my fingers crossed!).

 

Simon

Great work on TrackIR, thanks Martin.

 

In terms of developer outreach you're saying / doing all the right things so far...

Looks like Flight School will support TrackIR after all. They just needed to test it.

Wow. If that's how they are going to treat us going forward, we have a bright future ahead.

OOPS.....my bad.....

JSilva -

I just brought the tickets for Friday since I'm planning to go to London on Friday anyway.

 

Could you give us a mini review when you get back, or just let us know how it's progressing?

 

 

The bad news Flight Simulator will not share the same engine with Flight School, the good news is that's because it will be even better. Dovetail have confirmed that they are still evolving the technology which we can preview in Flight School for Flight Simulator. I guess we all have to be just a little more patient but they seem to be doing a good job so far.

 

Where did this come from? The original press release, clearly stated both Flight School and Flight Simulator was based off of FSX

 

 

Dovetail Games Flight School and Dovetail Games Flight Simulator do share the same underlying technology. In 2014, we acquired the rights to develop and publish new flight simulators utilizing Microsoft’s genre-defining flight simulation technology. This means that both Flight School and Flight Simulator are based on an evolution of Flight Simulator X technology.

JSilva -

Could you give us a mini review when you get back, or just let us know how it's progressing?

+1 (and maybe a quick video from your phone :wink: )

 

I just pre-ordered yesterday on Steam. Thought I may as well to get the 3rd aircraft early. I was using Prepar3d last night and thought to myself how for 15 euros to get better lighting and other fancy graphical/engine updates as well as FTX GLOBAL and 3 aircraft is actually a really good deal. Here in Switzerland that wouldn't buy you two pints of lager.

 

It seems the release date is 26th April if the pre-order deadline is April 25th.

+1 (and maybe a quick video from your phone :wink: )

 

I just pre-ordered yesterday on Steam. Thought I may as well to get the 3rd aircraft early. I was using Prepar3d last night and thought to myself how for 15 euros to get better lighting and other fancy graphical/engine updates as well as FTX GLOBAL and 3 aircraft is actually a really good deal. Here in Switzerland that wouldn't buy you two pints of lager.

 

It seems the release date is 26th April if the pre-order deadline is April 25th.

 

Agreed, we get an entire sim for less than the price of a single plane. Yet some people still complain. I dont understand personally but I am looking forward to it!