AustinLonghorn

You'll find that's the case at a lot of U.S. Army Airfields (a large number of rotary wing vs. fixed wing). Not a whole lot of traffic vs. KELP: BIF Biggs Aaf (Fort Bliss) Airport (BIF/KBIF) - FlightAware FWIW, there's a cargo/passenger terminal at 31.82967790560581, -106.41061567606184.

Thanks, good to know I'm on the right track! I had a red border of 10 pixels configured for my particular screen (RealSimGear GTN650 is 1920x1080) while fooling around with this. After getting everything in the right spot, what's the consensus on the best way to preserve the P3D window configuration for future flights? (I can't remember if it was possible to preserve undocked screen locations) With the RXP GNS430, I'd been just manually undocking the window and dragging/resizing over to the RealSimGear GNS430, but now with two units (GNS430 + GTN650), and one of them touchscreen, it's more of a pain to do all of this by hand.

Just wondering if the border.size = 2 option followed by locking the undocked window is still the preferred approach for using the RXP GTNs with RealSimGear devices? I tried out: usealtcursor = true ...but ended up with the behavior bjratchf described (the GTN window edges seemingly "stuck" to the mouse cursor and randomly resizing).

Thanks, that's good to know. The SD card issue was the main reason to choose the G500 or the GTN, but if Jepp packages them separately anyway ... Do you have any familiarity with the GNX 375 at all? (probably the newer format?)

Wondering what the optimal device selection is for purchasing occasional navigation data updates through fly.garmin.com? It seems G500 navigation data might be compatible with the RXP-bundled GNS430W/530W trainer, but I also remember seeing something about the GTN6XX series being the better choice? (the latest GTN 6XX trainers inlcude the newer, incompatible format, though?) The most obvious choice - the GNS 430W - uses a non-standard Compact Flash card and USB writer to transfer the updates.

No, it would seem not, which leads me to my next question... Any hints? Was that both the bmap.bin/basemap.bin and worldwide.bin?

Flyboychris1 - mind posting some photos of your setup?

oemlegoem - the bottom of the desk table surface is 28.75" (~ 73cm) from the floor. The Oeveo mounting bracket is 4" high, so the bottom of the Yoko is 24.75" (~ 63cm) from the floor. Legs sit underneath the yoke and clearance is fine for use of rudder pedals. If you sit too close, the yoke would touch your legs at the stops, but this is what happens in the real aircraft (C172).

The replacement yoke arrived, and all the buttons / axes are working fine! As for a correlation between the condition of the box and the yoke contained within, the replacement yoke's box had a huge hole in the side, so go figure. This yoke needed to go under the desk to sit at the correct height (previous Saitek Cessna yoke was on top of the desk); I found the Oeveo UCM-242 'Under Desk PC Mount' to use a tray. Some horsing around in the pattern with it so far, but it's a big improvement over the Saitek yoke in terms of overall smoothness. Once you're in the air, the bungee cord system is surprisingly good! Oeveo UCM-242 mounting bracket, easy to remove and put the keyboard/mouse tray back in to use the desk for other stuff:

While I'm waiting for the replacement yoke to arrive... The before-opening-the-box anticipation photo: ...and one of the series of photos I sent to VF for diagnostic purposes; the much longer elevator / y-axis travel and the bungee cords are the win over the "alligator + springs" assembly in the Saitek Cessa Pro Flight yoke:

So per Virtual Fly, I double checked all the internal cabling last Thursday and it looks like there's something wrong with the y-axis sensor itself or the USB controller; it's simply not reporting any values for y-axis travel. They have sent another yoke via standard FedEx shipping today, should be here in five days or so.

Wow, disappointed I didn't find that vendor - I looked around for about every yoke in the place.

No, but they have asked me to open it up and see if I can repair it myself.

Virtual Fly is also baffled - they obviously QA them before shipment. I'd reckon shipping damage, too, but the box is in excellent condition. Also, I fixated on "x-axis" row in the P3D calibration window; it's actually the y-axis (elevator) that's not responsive.