NoahBryant

It sounds weird but I really enjoy my browser a bit longer than normal and there is room for my start menu and instant message program just above it. It's also awesome for typing and laying out documents.

I have a 24 inch 16x9 monitor on the left, turned vertically. Center monitor is a 27inch Samsung LED, and on the right is a standard 19 inch monitor. For FS I actually only use the center monitor and have the left and right for work, Internet or movies.

Aside from something like Air Display? Nope.

Yes it effects frames for most people because you're unlocking a new window. It depends on your system whether you notice it or not though. Personally, I bought air display for this reason, used it on one flight and that was it. Never touched it again. I know a lot of people love it but I found just found it annoying. It's easier for me to just pan down at the FMC and use it.

how did you program it?

Yea you're not going to find anything like that. The view system just isn't programmed like that. You may look into EX Dock or TrackIR (which i never use with FSX). Even if you had a hat that had an axis instead of buttons I don't think there's a way to program it into FSX that way. There could be a crazy workaround though similar to how EZ Dock and TrackIR work

Hold space and move the mouse?

Try VATSIM first. It's free but there's no guaranteed coverage. Plus side is that it covers the whole world. If you get into VATSIM and really enjoy it you may want to step up to pilot edge.

Math time... This is a rough calculation, but serves the point I think. At the frame of the video where the shadow plane's wings cross the fence, the plane is somewhere between the fence, and the road (since it hasn't struck the car yet). There is about 17 feet between the road and white fence. That means the plane is somewhere between 454 and 471 feet from the runway threshold and 46-63 feet from the displaced threshold. Using the known wingspan of the plane and the shadow to approximate the position of the plane I came up with the following: At the point the plane is between the fence and the road the nose gear is only about 5-7 feet off the ground. That is a .61 degree glide slope for the runway threshold and a 4.3 degree angle to the displaced threshold. The one factor I couldn't include was the angle of the sun since I couldn't find what time of day it occurred, but since the runway is N/S and the video is pointing to the north, the angle of the sun won't have a major impact on the calculation, since we know the plane had to be between the road and fence. (being in the northern hemisphere, the shadow had to be to the north of the plane) I am not an engineer or mathematician This is really rough, but I believe serve the purpose of illustrating that the plane appeared to be on a better glide slope to aim for the displaced threshold rather than the actual threshold.

That's pretty much you're only option. There's another app that's similar but it will still have to be windowed.

Martin - I admire you're wanting to get more realistic in your flight planning! It looks like you're slowly running into the problem many of us see in that planning a flight in any kind of realistic way is not especially compatible with the built-in FS features. FS doesn't support SID/s and STARs at all. For that you will need to buy something like Radar Contact or start using VATSIM. VATSIM intimidates a lot of people but it's really not that bad at all as long as you're willing to learn. I'll tell you what I do when I'm not flying on VATSIM - I go to rtfinder.asalink.net/free and enter my destination and arrival airports to get the flight plan. Then I look at the weather and decide which runway I'll be departing and pick a SID accordingly. I pick the STAR and arrival runway the same way once I'm nearing the destination. I never even think about touching the default ATC or flight planenr. It's too far from reality to do anything but make me mad, lol. If you give VATSIM a ago, you'll let he controllers tell you the SID/STARs and runways. In the US though, the SID/STAR is normally chosen by the pilot in the planning stafe. In Europe, and most everywhere else, the SID/STAR is chosen by ATC.

I sure did, sorry !

Yep, these are awesome!

Which 'bug' are you referring to? The engine failing, or the flaps/gear? The engine is likely failing because you are running it too hard. I had literally this exact same problem as you describe and when I kept an eye on my engine gauges during climb, the problem went away. Admittedly, what I was doing was setting the proper power/torque as I began my climb, but as the plane got higher it gradually slowed down. The decreased airflow and made the engine temp increase and viola, engine failure. Keep your speed up as you climb be reducing your climb rate and keep everything in the green. Your first indication will be an oil temp light. Another thing you may try is if you are always using the same saved flight (like do a flight, save it when you land, load it, do a flight, save it when you land etc) then try occasionally starting a completely fresh flight as well.

There is a slider on the throttle that you could use as a rudder, however it wouldn't spring back to center. Actually it may feel sort of like a tiller. Not a great solution I know.

It's only as complicated as you make it. When I use it for FSX I really only have maybe less than 10 commands actually mapped to the stick. If you want to come up with some FS command to map to every button of the stick you can, but there's really only a few that are good to have on the stick since you can still use the mouse to interact with the plane. No stick is going to be able to replace that. I have thrust reverse mapped to the throttles back detent, an autopilot cutoff button, a auto-throttle cutoff button. I have parking brakes mapped, a screenshot button. Spoilers are mapped to the slider, flaps are mapped and I think that's everything. Also note that I use registered FSUIPC and I'm not sure if someone mentioned it but there is no rudder with the stick like the Saitek one. I think TH assumes that if you're going to spend 500 dollars on a stick, you already have rudder pedals.

Yeah it's fine. I prefer it to using CC actually if only because it's easier to type my email address than remember my CC number.

The problem would be as soon as people found out it would open up a whole world of, "Well if you made XX amount of dollars on the NGX then you should have the 777 released by now, what are you guys doing with all that money." type posts. Some people would get an even stronger case of "PMDG-owes-us-itis" PMDG puts up with far too much in their forums as it is.

In the interest of finishing my story... After telling my story here I decided to contact Thrustmaster about this issue yet again. They claimed that they really had sent me the part 3 months ago but I must not have received it. A day later I received shipping notification and today I received the part.

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It doesn't sound like you have read up too much on this. There are literally scripts for this in various places online. Here's a couple: http://www.vatsim.net/prc/ <<<<<< read this entire thing http://pilotcerts.la...ge/ratings.html You can put the route into your FMC whenever you like, but you must be prepared to change it. Even if the controller does tell you to expect runway 25R there's nothing that says they can't change it on you when it's time for taxi either due to traffic or weather. There's no need to "redo everything" in your FMC just the departure/runway as well as the v speeds. The same applies in the air too. Expect changes and know how to accommodate them in your FMC . If you know you're aircraft this should be a no brainer. No, ATC will not give you the route to fly unless they are feeling generous. You send them the route and they review it, potentially making amendments. Your best bet is to read the VATSIM PRC. I'm guessing since you don't know the first words to say, you don't know the rest either. That's okay, we all started there. Read up and observe. While you'r reading up on the above, login to the network at a busy airport and just listen to other pilots. That will also greatly help you get used to the lingo. Another thing that helps while you are observing is to follow the same aircraft as they go through the different controllers. That way you get practice tuning frequencies too.

How fast are you when you are intercepting the localizer? When are you deploying your flaps? Also, at what point are you noticing your speed is too high? I find the landing gear does a much better at slowing the plane then the speed brake if it looks like things are too fast.

Yeah if Radar Contact isn't enough, then welcome to VATSIM.

I might add, that despite my problems with their support, I still fully recommend it. It's exceptional.