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  2. Posted

    Hi Bob.

    Yes, I did that also. I assigned a keyboard button to toggle the Beta range. However, I then have to advance my throttle forward to enter the range, as it has already come back to the stop when I idled. It works, but just a bit quirky. 

    Hi Bert.

    I have to use my mouse to drag the Prop and Condition levers. I have discovered that by rotating the mouse wheel the prop lever moves out of the detent position and I then use the mouse to drag the lever down.

    Anyway guys. It's all irrelevant now. My wife was so fed up with me blowing up engines and stamping my feet, pulling my hair out and general tantrums... LOL, that, in her capacity as line manager, she has authorised the purchase of a Bravo throttle quadrant!! My flying buddy has the Alpha yoke and the Bravo quadrant. He sings its praises, so I took the plunge and bought one.

    Thanks again for taking the time to help out.

    Best Regards...Kenny.

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    Hi Bobsk8.

    Now this is strange!! I am really confused now. I have had my yoke for years and it always works fine but for some reason in the Kodiak I cannot get full travel. I'll have another look at the options in the Controls section. BTW, would you mind very much letting me know what mapping/bindings you have chosen? Perhaps I am trying to be to picky in setting up a Template for the Kodiak. Mmmm, there's a thought, I'll try just using my Cessna 172 yoke Template.

  5. Posted

    Hello again Bert.

    Yes, the levers in the yoke work just fine for other aircraft. I take it that you have no problems with the Kodiak. Mmmm, that's good to know. So why are mine not going past the detent? I do have Lorbys axes and ohs that I use with an X touch mini for rotaries etc. I'll try using that to control the axes and see what happens. I used FSUIPC in FSX but don't have it for FS2020.

    Thanks for the info...Kenny.

  6. Posted

    Hi Folks.

    I am needing some assistance from you after having spent quite a bit of time trying to get my CH Yoke axes to operate both the Condition/Mixture and the Propeller lever in the Kodiak. I can get them moving only as far as the detent positions. I have tried various mapping choices but I cannot get full travel through the detents in each lever. I mean of course in the virtual cockpit quadrant. My yoke has no detent positions.

    Has anyone managed to get full travel with the CH yoke? There are lots of options in the Controls Options Power Management section but all of the ones I have tried do not give me full travel of the cockpit levers. I always stick at the detents. I can manipulate the levers with the mouse and then use the levers to 'half' travel, either on the top side or the bottom section but not all the way through the detent.

    I hope this makes sense to you. Thanks in advance for any info.

    Regards...Kenny.

  7. Posted

    Hi Christopher.

    I have had the sim from day one. I fly GA aircraft like the Baron and it works just fine for me. I am not a real world pilot, although my son was an Airbus Captain. If one wishes to be a bit picky then there is some stuff in the sim that can be picked up on. However, if like me, you just want to fly around and see new places then this sim is simply brilliant. The Baron flies just fine for a non real world pilot like me. I just enjoy what I have.

    Regards...Kenny.

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  10. Posted

    On 12/9/2022 at 3:36 PM, RabH said:

    I finally got to try the update properly today and I have to say it is just superb, although I did have some problems getting the autothrottle and autpilot to behave properly with my first flightplan. I was attempting a flight from Glasgow to Manchester using a Simbrief flightplan and everytime I tried the autothrottle wouldn't hold the speed resulting in me switching to manual throttle, also the autopilot wouldn't follow the flightplan to Norbo! This was my routing!"EGPF NORB1H NORBO T256 ORVUL/N0434F230 T256 DCS L612 LAKEY LAKE1M EGCC" and I just couldn't get the plane to turn to the Norbo fix, other than using the DIR function! Eventually I decided to try the flight in the opposite direction and everything worked as it should have and I was totally blown away! It wasn't perfect as I had some poropoising at times using FLC but that was probably down to me...

    Hi RabH. The turn for NORBO is quite tight. I'm wondering if you have set too high an airspeed for the turn. Perhaps try using a slower airspeed for that particular departure. Do you have the Track Vector set up to display in the Map Page. This would indicate to you the anticipated direction to get/keep you on track.

    Regards...Kenny

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  11. Posted · Edited by kenny584

    I need to retire!  Shame I am about 10 or 12 years away from that unfortunately, as I could spend all day on MSFS just lately.

    Hi Bobcat. As a retired person, I can absolutely tell you that nothing else gets done once you retire and become a full time 'Virtual' pilot. LOL

    Regards...Kenny.

    p.s. The first line is a quote from an earlier reply by Bobcat. I just don't know how to get the quotes thingy to work here.

     

     

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    Hi Folks. My local airport EGPH had a facelift some time ago with the addition of a new apron and taxiway. This new apron is where the bizjets are parked up and it shows as such in Bing Maps. I have the new ORBX EGPH and it is fairly accurate with the new apron and parking spots. However, the sim world map page still shows the old airport layout. Does anyone know how often the world map screen gets updated? It would be nice to see the new layout with the correct parking.

    Regards...Ken.

  14. Posted

    Hello again.

    Yes, I have read the relevant sections of the manual. Initially it was the Block Fuel message that I could not remove. Now I have a whole lot of empty entries showing as red in the Fuel Report tab since selecting the DakFly reference file. I'll work my way through the various entries and try to remove the red warning banner.

    Thanks for your help. I'll report back when I have made some progress.

    Cheers...Kenny

  15. Posted

    Hi Thanks for the quick reply. I appreciate it. I initially downloaded and installed the file from here...

    https://www.littlenavmap.org/downloads/Aircraft Performance/MSFS/

    However, I have also installed the DAKFLY Flight Dynamics mod for the C700 Longtitude. I deleted out the ASOBO file from the Performance folder and put in the DAKFLY one. Unfortunately, when I open the Edit Aircraft performance window in LNM the Aircraft model box shows as empty. How do I edit the Aircraft Performance from the Aircraft tab at the top of LNM?

    Regards...Kenny

  19. Posted

    My apologies if this has been covered already but there are so many posts now, it is difficult to find stuff. Does anyone know of a way to slow down the taxi speed of the Longtitude? I'm assuming it is hard coded into the 'air file' by ASOBO but just wondered if perhaps there was a number we could change somewhere. I give a small increase in thrust to start the aircraft moving and then reduce to idle but the N1% stays at 28 and the aircraft taxi speed increases to what I'm thinking is unrealistic. I'm not an engineer but is there a way to reduce that number and would it make a difference to taxi speed?

    Regards...Kenny.

  20. Posted

    Hi Bert, perhaps I am not picking up correctly in what you are trying to do but I can save a custom weather flight and then reload it from the pc by selecting it from a drop down list under the WEATHER heading in the popup WEATHER window. I still have options to amend it further if I so desire.

    I right click on the blue square wind and cloud icons under WEATHER. This then activates a 'Save' option amongst the other small icons and I can then give it a dedicated name and save it to 'This pc' after changing the weather to an appropriate metar for the airports I am using. I can save a dedicated .flt for my arrival and select it from the dropdown at an appropriate distance out.

    My apologies if you already know all this and are looking to achieve something else.

    Regards...Kenny.

     

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  22. Posted · Edited by kenny584

    Hi Folks.

    I am not really a techie, so, are all you folks talking about a beta version that is not yet available as an update? I mean the ones that we all get every so often. Also, if I may. I am assuming that my pc is using DX11 and most posts are mentioning DX12. Is DX12 tied to this beta? Or is it something that I can install? How would I know whether I am using DX11 or 12?

    Regards...Kenny.

    edit...I just searched online and then ran the dxdiag tool. My pc is using DX12.

  25. Posted

    Hello tup61.

    Be assured that the charts do make perfect sense to real world pilots. It is a case of making use of the correct arrival and approach charts for the assigned runway. I'm typing this as a quick reply without having had a look at the airfield and charts you mention. I'll have a look later, as will other folks I presume.In the meantime here is a link that may help you understand the charts better. It is a lot of detail but read through it at your leisure.

    https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Introduction-to-Jeppesen-Navigation-Charts.pdf

    Best Regards...Kenny

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