JimmiHanz

I tried the gold rush with the RV yesterday and stalled on the first climb a few hoops into it... Haven't tried it since

Yeah, I guess I'll just turn off the torque effect in the menu, at least until I get used to flying with a joystick. Maybe once it gets a little too easy I'll switch it back, but that will definitely make landing less frustrating!

Thanks for the explanation, I suspected it might be something like this. So what's the easiest way to alleviate this? With the rudder or the ailerons? I used the ailerons when I only had my PS3 controller, but I'm finding that more difficult with the joystick.

These seem really cool, I can't wait to try them out. I think I'll watch the episodes first to prep myself :good: Thanks for posting these for us!

Hey guys, I finally got around to buying a joystick for playing Flight, and I decided on the Logitech 3D pro as a good starter stick. I'm finding it significantly more difficult than flying with the PS3 controller I had been using, but I'm redoing all the landing challenges to get myself used to flying with the stick. I have a question about bank trim... Sorry if I don't use the right terminology, just let me know if my language is too ambiguous or flat out wrong and I'll try and explain it better. Basically, my plane always banks to the left. It happened with my PS3 controller, but I'm pretty handy with one of those so it wasn't a big deal to adjust for it. With the new joystick, however, it's something that really detracts from the quality of my flying, and it's really frustrating to constantly be making adjustments especially with my skill level being so low with the stick. I found a "bank trim" option, or something to that effect, in the options menu and bound it to some buttons on the joystick, but it doesn't seem to have any effect at all, at least in the RV-6. Is that just not a feature of that plane? How can I make my plane fly straight without my constantly babysitting the stick? Is this the natural movement of the plane due to the torque of the prop? Thanks! P.S. There's no way to see windspeed and direction without the HUD on, is there? :sorry:

Welcome to video games! These forums are amongst the most civil of video game fora, but I've yet to come across one without entitled gamers who complain about everything.

They definitely are not perfect, but they are a great resource for people like me who have never played a flight sim or flown a plane before... I just wrote down the steps I need to remember so I don't have to use the in game checklist, but I'm finding I need it less and less. It's only about a dozen steps anyway, and most of them are pretty logical.

Yeah, I've noticed that my gas pressure is always waaay higher than the checklist says it should be. My plane hasn't exploded yet so I think it's OK though :unknw:

GMap for Android!? Well since I lost my phone last week (Windows Phone 7) I guess I know what OS I'll have on my new phone B)

That's fair, but I think you're missing out without GMap. You can pop it up for a few seconds at a time so it doesn't actually block the screen the whole time, just whenever you need to look at it. It would be great to have that kind of functionality built into the cockpit though!

' Microsoft Flight uses SpeedTree technology I think... So generally speaking you are right, but with the sheer amount of trees visible at an altitude of thousands of feet even SpeedTree would start to hog resources.

I wish I could contribute to topics like these, but I always have to run Flight on medium since I have to play on my laptop... Oh well, maybe when I build my desktop I can complain about tree density :Cry:

Good stuff, I'm impressed that you're really committed to seeing all the airports! Nice landing in that video too, I wish I could approach under control like that ^_^ I always have way too much speed...

Not sure I'll be picking this up right away... I've been moving through the planes slowly trying to get some semblance of mastery with each one before moving onto the next. I've done the Icon, the Stearman, and I'm currently working on the RV-6. After that will be the Maule, and then we'll see about buying the Cub!

This reminds me of the TV show ReBoot. What a great show.