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Tuning Radios in HMDs

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I've been using a HMD for several months and love it. One thing is very much worse though and I'd like help to solve the problem.

Before HMD, handling my radios was easy. To retune the stdby frequency just needed me to hover the curser on the large outer dial and L click to increase MHz or R click to reduce MHz. Same with the smaller inner dial, L click to increase kHz and R click to reduce kHz. Then click on the radio's flip-flops button to transfer stdby to main.

In visual reality this still "works" but it's impossible to do in my practice. I have to position the white spot (cursor) over the dials using my head/mouse whilst clicking L or R mouse. I can't keep the cursor steady while clicking because I cannot hold my head steady for long enough. It's the same trying to engage fli-flop. Know what I mean?

How does this relate to P3D? I have the full list of keyboard assignments for P3D and nowhere can I see anything about setting frequencies or making the radios flip-flop. If I could spot radio frequency adjust, MHz and kHz, and flip-flop I could assign joystick buttons to them. Where are they on the assignment list?

Hope you can help.

Thanks,

Brian

12 minutes ago, Brianl said:

If I could spot radio frequency adjust, MHz and kHz, and flip-flop I could assign joystick buttons to them. Where are they on the assignment list?

Look here and search for 'radio'. You have to select individual digits and then use 'selection increase' and 'selection decrease' to change them.

MarkH

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23 hours ago, MarkDH said:

Look here and search for 'radio'. You have to select individual digits and then use 'selection increase' and 'selection decrease' to change them.

Thanks MarkDH.

When I'm flying the sim aircraft I would like to use the instrument panel displayed as I do in real life. The frequency panel is there and without virtual reality I can easily and quickly change stby frequency with the mouse by clicking L or R on the tuning knobs. Then I can L click on the flip-flop button on the radio to transfer the stby frequency to main on the radio. That's what I want to do with the VR headset on. I really don't want to use a method that's not realistic even though it does the job.

Hope you can help.

Brian

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