Mirtma

I bought Mustang. By mistake. I like the airplane for it's history and it's look. And simply I didn't noticed that it's without cockpit. When I first try to fly it, I was pressing F9 and crashed. Only used it to get high aerocache. Since then it's in hangar. And I will not buy any cockpit-less plane.

Will try to remember when I get home and look at the map.

Yesterday I've got Clandestine Mission (at last). Soon after I got to 19 lvl.Before I just couldn't find it anywhere. It was really fun. Specially at the end. Low fuel and short and narrow strip. Trees all around. I had to circle 3 times around to decide from where is best to land. I've got almost 18.000 xp (at daylight).What I've been missing is possibility to look at map so that I could decide where to fly before you take off. And we should have map while in route.

Well, yesterday I was flying with Englishman and I'm from Slovenia. And few days ago with Spanish (or similar) speaking pilot.

Yesterday I took a cargo job. Since the cargo was heavy I took only 20 % of fuel. When near destination I still had about 6 %. Successful landing in military base, just where it was marked with "destination". Nothing happens. Then pop up asking me if I have enough fuel to takeoff or if I'm stuck here (at this airport I couldn't refuel). I was taxiing around to get mission confirmed. Nothing. I took off and left for bigger airport 5 or 6 miles away. Refueled and then return back. Then I get right response and end of mission.Has anyone else had such a problem with low fuel?

Looking good. Zinfinion, thank you for your effort. I've just ordered Hotas X. I've disconnected Cougar and connected even older Saitek X45. With that one at least axes are working. :Peace:

Hey Mirtma,You will certainly get some good feedback here, in regards to how a specific controller performs with the Flight program. But do understand, most of that feedback is going to be limited to folks who are currently running the Flight program.If you want a more overall view of suggestions on controllers in your price range, and how they work in not only Flight but other sims as well, you might consider posting similar on the Hardware controller and drivers sub forum.If you are unsure where that is located, just click on the Avsim Forums - upper left - scroll down to the hardware forums, then go to the controller and drivers subforum.Best of luck in your search for a replacement controller,

Of the sub $50 joysticks, I'm rather pleased with the Hotas X. The build quality is great, no sharp edges, it reminds me a lot of the quality of the old Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro.I'm convinced that the best feature is having the rudder control on the throttle, rather than the stick. It's far too easy to accidentally twist the stick and bleed airspeed, but on the throttle rocker, you only get rudder when you intend to get rudder.One caveat to this stick is it doesn't come with a button/axis mapping software, but I've used Xpadder ($10) to overcome that. I've bound all the axes (pitch, roll, throttle, rudder) in Flight, and bound all the buttons in Xpadder. This gives me the perk of mapping two buttons to Shift and Ctrl, which jumps the button count from 10 to 32 essentially when using button chording. I've also bound the stick twist axis to left and right brakes, which makes taxiing much easier than using the rudder. Again, Xpadder works great here since Flight doesnt have an axis bind for brakes.For $50 or less (I got mine for $35 on sale), I doubt there is a better option.

No way. Fly or walk. Result: Zero.

I have been very happy with the Thrustmaster T Hotas X, have used it for years on various sims and never had a problem. It is also quite cheap.

After Kalo had his Skipping Accident™, I remapped the skip command to CTRL+N, and suggest other people do the same. It makes the tooltip box slightly larger, but there are far less accidents. May want to do the same with the engine cutoff and open door commands too.

My old TM Hotas Cougar is giving me a lot of problems. It became jumpy. Can't make a turn without sudden jumps, or smooth add throttle. I've tried to clean contacts, but no joy.So I'm looking for new one but with limited funds. Around 60 USD. Any suggestions? Anyone with experience with Thrustmaster T.Flight Hotas X?

Yesterday I have time and I've decided to do Hawaii Photo Book mission (only one left). I was enjoining real nice scenery, and learning about Hawaiian history. When on the last leg (about 150 NM from landing) I want to take some more screenshots. And guess what? I press the "N" instead of "V" key. :Monkey: What a bummer. But I must say again. Really nice flight and scenery.

I personally do not find the fact that it is a Zero all that relevant to the real concern, that concern at the core being a plane without a cockpit.

It looks like they are buying time. They said one aircraft every month. That's it. :Liar:

I bought Mustang by mistake (didn't saw that's external view only). Will not do same mistake again.

I like it.

Ozzie Tnx. Will try that. And, I know ... practise. I don't have much problem with longer runways. (Many hours in DCS:A10c. ;) ) There you have higher landing speed, but also flaps and airbrakes.Oh, and tnx for links. Great resource of info.

Press and hold the brake key, and release briefly now and then on the taildraggers (especially the Stearman) so you don't tip them over on their nose. You really want to touch down at the right speed, and as early as possible (ideally "on the numbers" on paved runways, and roughly the same spot on dirt fields) to give you the maximum distance for your ground roll. The correct approach and landing speeds are in the checklist, hit Q and read it before landing. From memory, the Stearman wants 65mph on final, and you should flare and touch down at 55, with the nose up HIGH.Personally I find the Stearman a bit of a handful to land. Not only does it lose speed VERY fast when you throttle back, so you might have to carry some throttle all the way down, but it also likes to flip over unless you stop braking for a second now and then, AND you'd better be holding that stick back in your gut while on the ground. It also has great visibility in all directions except forwards and down, i.e. the direction you need to see when landing :). I solve that by a curving approach, so I only lose sight of the runway when i'm right over it.

I'm having problems to slow down & stop when landing. No problem with long runway. But at short ones ... At what speed should I touch down with Stearman and RV6? How to break. I try to press and release break button. Or just press and hold?

I like one in Honopu Beach. Land on the sea, drive to the beach and walk to the hole.

A couple of the aerocaches you have to be so close that you have to go on foot. Lava Foundation is easy, Where It All Started you have to walk up and almost touch it.Hook

With few caches I have problem to detect me (most of them are on the ground or on the mountain side). For instance Lava foundation (and there are few more). I'm sure that I flew through it (low, almost at ground) but it didn't confirm success. Don't know if it should be that way.

Tnx Mapper. Very helpful.+1

Bought adventure pack and P51. Been sorry for last one (no cockpit). Should read more carefully and buy Maule instead.

It wont help. Somebody will just think that means the pictures are only of external views.

Loving the sim, but Im sorry I purchased the P-51. I didnt realize that there wasnt a cockpit before I bought it, bummer. Close to 7 hours total flight time and I had my first crash. Guess which plane it was in? The cockpit-less P-51!