cowpatz

The PFD and ND brightness is a real pain and I hope they come up with a fix soon. I have to crane my neck toward the screen to read the text clearly. Out of interest does the Fenix have pop out screens? I just notice that the mouse cursor changes to a hand when passed over those 2 displays. Just wondering if it’s just my system not showing them or they actually don’t exist.

Thanks s0cks, The input source and keybind for “centre” were all set. It’s the output that is the issue. I only get the Eyewear beam to move if I select FSX sim connect as the output. Unfortunately my 180 min trial finished before I got it sorted. Even though it’s only $30 I’d like to know that it’s going to work correctly for me. Is it the Eyewear Beam tracker or Opentrack that might the issue with the longitudinal centering?

I'm trying the steam demo version but I have an issue whereby my opening view in the Cessna Longitude changes from the cockpit back to the middle and inside of the airframe. I notice on a few videos that the open track output is selected to freetrack 2.0 Enhanced. I get no headtracking unless Microsoft FSX SimConnect is selected, but then this puts the viewpoint way back. There is the ability to adjust the x,y & Z axis points but there just isnt enough to move back to the cockpit.Any ideas why this imight be happening?

For those experiencing lag/latency, are you sure that it is set up correctly? There seems to be a lot of tuning capability, at least from what I saw in Overkill’s video.

No the sarcasm was not lost. I was using your pebble scenario as an example of pursuing that level of detail which, imho, isn’t required in a flight simulator.

And herein lies a problem. Pebbles? The concern here is that FS2024 becomes more of a game title than a flight simulator. Imagine a Grand theft auto scenario. More developer time spent on this than important stuff like sim physics and aircraft fidelity. Whilst pebbles in a stream might be nice, is it really needed in a flight sim? It’s right up there with highly detailed airport and aircraft cabin interiors. It all takes developer time ($$$) and hits performance. Perhaps those gimmicky things could best be selectable options or 3rd party add ons.

Good grief it’s only delay by a couple of weeks. Does it really matter in the scheme of things?

If you are operating aircraft like the 737 or A320 there is still Dunedin NZDN, Invercargill NZNV, Palmerston North NZPM, Rotorua NZRO (a challenge, Napier NZNR (short runway) or Hamilton NZHN (short). There is also plenty of 2.5 to 3.5 hour international options as well such as: Sydney YSSY, Brisbane YBBN, Melbourne YMML, Gold Coast YBCG, Norfolk Island YSNF, Hobart YMHB, Launceston YMLT, Noumea NWWW, Nadi (Fiji) NFFN, Tonga NFTF and the Samoan group Apia NSFA and Pago Pago NSTU. As for regional turbo prop, or biz jet ops, there is plenty of other great regional airports to try out. So no need to get bored…….and if you do then welcome to an airline pilots life!

Actually they are surprisingly accurate (within the limitations of the video). Maybe a bit more dust and grime needed, but that’s all.

Yes that’s critical. You spend a lot of time in flightsim looking at the landing gear, almost as much as a cabin interior.

Absolutely. PMDG should have updated their Nav Data coding long ago.

Doh! ……..Dat be 3 words…… 🙂

It is probably be a issue with the PMDG navdata coding. Current nav charts have the LOC12 APP and the RNP12 approaches displaying pretty much the same. Both are straight in. There is only a 2 degree course difference between the two. A slightly steeper descent angle of 3.9 instead of 3.0 degrees for both approaches.

They hung on to that original navdata format for too long. For a study level sim this should have been at the top of the priority list. It’s why I switched and used the iFly 737 in P3D.

Wow that’s unfortunate and rather annoying. I cannot understand why a real world pilot would be happy to produce a product that lacks that capability. RNP is everywhere now.