basementflyguy

Agreed. Yesterday in the F22 I was zooming along at 300 feet, and when I went inverted (cue the Top Gun "permission to buzz the tower" clip) I admired the shadow of the aircraft below me. This was in the VC.

Left monitor is no problem and easy to see.

You bet, Vic. Let me know if I can help.

I played with view groups for the basement sim but for my front / two sides setup it was ultimately easier just to set three saved custom cameras. All are 1080p but the sizes are obviously different front vs side. I solve for that with different zoom levels front vs side. Frame rates are solid to excellent but that's because of the rig and 980ti. More on how I do camera configs here: http://www.ontheglideslope.net/2016/05/18/how-to-creating-custom-cameras-in-prepar3d-v3/ Hope it's of use.

Are you running SPAD or the Saitek drivers?

+1,000

Start with power loading. Make sure power management is turned off for that USB hub and port, and that the yoke is plugged into a hub with at least 500ma for that USB port. Finally, make sure it's in a USB 2.0 hub if possible. When Saitek gear gets wonky, in my experience it's nearly always USB hub or USB power-related.

Today I was looking for someplace new to do some pattern work in Prepar3d, and decided to settle on a random location. Wikipedia has a list of all ICAO codes in the US, and I found a website online that randomized the list. Here it is in Dropbox as a text file for others who might want to add some variety to their flying. Just start at the top and work your way down. Or even better, fly between those locations! There are roughly 1,970 entires in all.

Cool. For a minute I thought you meant KPHL. I'd LOVE to see FiFi one day. We could do a home at home - some time in FiFi and then some time in the basement sim ...

FiFi?

Thanks, Bill. I fly out of KPHL as a passenger all the time. I'll look for you up front!

A reader request flight around the Drzewiecki Design New York City X scenery (http://www.drzewiecki-design.net/prodNYCity_X.htm), using the Aerosoft Beaver float plane just for fun. Thanks for watching.

A YouTube viewer requested more first-person video, so here's an attempt on a simulated flight from Jackson Hole to West Yellowstone. It illustrates some great Orbx North America land class scenery (including a post-forest fire timber land class -- very cool), and includes a valuable lesson on density altitude and proper mixture. I hope you like it and thanks for watching.

With the Orbx OpenLC NA scenery. Thanks for watching.

I wonder how well my 980ti would run two of those along with the 1080p projector ... PilotEdge. As real as it gets.

It's a thought quickly followed by, "Huh. Here I am posting on AVSIM when I should be doing work."

... if you're sitting at work and look out the windows and think to yourself, "Huh. That looks just like REX with soft clouds ..."?

Brilliant. Thanks.

What DOES it do, Bob?

Rudder and trim, man! You could have made it!!

Rich, you evil genius.

Recreating some maneuvers from a recent real-world lesson, using the PilotEdge network and ORBX SoCal scenery (Bakersfield). Stalls, steep turns, turns around a point, engine out procedure with go-around, and a return to 30R at KBFL. Best moment of the video for me is when I say "flops" instead of "flaps." Details: - Prepare3d v3.3.5 - Active Sky16 - Active Sky Cloud Art - ORBX Global, Vector, OpenLC NA, and SoCal - Piper 28-161 by Spike Thanks for watching.

I don't. It's fixed on the floor. But sometimes I feel like it's moving inside the sim!

Thanks everybody. I try to make about a video a week in the sim, and hope folks enjoy watching them. My YouTube channel link is in my sig. Rich, I agree. When it came to tone and feel he may have been one of rock's best. Remembering them is one thing. Being able to play them is another!

Wow, thanks Elaine! I had fun making it. And all credit to Chris for such a fantastic add on.