Wilmer

Hmm, I'll definitely try that one. I've already bought the Carenado Archer, and although it definitely looks impressive, it's definitely buggy in XP10, for example at some point the throttle handle didn't work anymore. I would apply full throttle and that's what it showed on screen, but RPMs didn't go up and I also most definitely did not take off.The only thing I really care about is realistic handling so 2D or 3D cockpit doesn't really matter to me. Let's try that one. Thanks![edit] Hmm, weird, have you tried it in XP 10 yet? The windows look like they're frosted, permanently.. I guess I'll go try XP9 again.

I really hope we'll get VFR ATC back soon. Until center stops instructing me to fly into mountains, I'll just have to ignore them entirely and use radio just for ATIS.Does anybody know if VFR is planned?

I can live with the inability to slip (although I would expect, with how X-Plane works, that that would Just Work..), I don't really do crosswinds in X-Plane anyway. Whereas at KPAO with a pretty strong crosswind last year I could do survivable landings while other student pilots were doing 3 go-arounds in a row before a successful touchdown, with X-Plane I end up in grass or on the taxiway all the time. I blame the low quality of flightsim controls as much as I blame X-Plane though.Thanks for the Duchess advice, although that's a twin-engine and I'm not quite at that stage yet. :-) I guess I'll just try the Archer II which is supposed to be better done than the C172. It's just a shame that there's now way to try-before-buy. It would be nice if X-Plane had a way to restrict ACFs to just 10-minute demos (which I guess would motivate more ACF designers to release demos like that).

Sorry to somewhat hijack your topic, but how do you like the Carenado? I'd like to try it and the sales pitch seems great (plus just today I was thinking how it'd be cool if the X-Plane 172 sounded more like the real thing, heh), but I wonder if it also solves some of my annoyances with the standard C172 like for example the IMHO very slow responses to throttle adjustments.Looking shiny is great, but I also want the flight experience to be better...

Yup, I've tried to turn off things that require CPU power and turn on things that require GPU power. As long as the fps indicator in the top left corner of my screen shows CPU utilisation near 1.0, I assume the CPU is the bottleneck in my system.But the clouds seem really expensive. At 50% or so it sometimes means 30 instead of 60 fps.. :-(

That sums it up for me, yes. AI traffic is weird (although it keeps amusing me to see AI "land" a 747 on Palo Alto and Dublin Weston Airport), ATC is IFR-only, sometimes lets me wait endlessly for no clear reason (at which point I of course just turn off radio and fly away), or sometimes gets stuck saying the same thing to one of the AI flyers in an infinite loop (fixable by going to the map and moving that flyer around a little bit, heh).And I really wonder what kind of machine I need to get decent (>30) fps with the indeed very pretty clouds. I have an i3-2100 which I know is low-end, but the heavier CPUs these days mostly seem to just add cores. X-Plane is already not really utilizing my current 2/4 cores/threads too well, maxing out one of them and using the other one for I guess AI. :-(

Let me know how it works for you. :-) It's especially nice with the udev setup, but when udev rules don't work, debugging them is hell in my experience.

I had the same problem and never really liked the approach of representing a joystick as a keyboard, especially if it means I can't use the actual arrow keys on my keyboard for something else (for example moving my "head" instead of turning it). Last weekend I figured out how to use uinput to simulate any kind of input events on Linux (keyboard, mouse, joystick, all of it) and wrote uhat. Works perfectly for me so far, it's very nice to finally have the hat switch working properly.If the solutions above don't work for you, you can try uhat. Right now I'm probably the only user which feels a bit ... lonely. (-:Now I just need to decide if I should upgrade my CPU to get my old framerates back even in cloudy weather... :-)