greyspider

I’’ve read posts. I’ve watched tutorials. But no matter what I do, I cannot bind the Learjet 35 pitch trimming functions to my joystick (Thrustmaster T1600/TWCS). The tutorials say that the Pitch trim barrel switch on the left side of the yoke should be bound to INCREASE AP PITCH HOLD REFERENCE and DECREASE AP PITCH HOLD REFERENCE. So I bind the two buttons that I normally use for trimming up/down on every other aircraft to those commands. It does nothing. (I understand that AP has to be off.) Then the tutorials say the barrel switch only works if the center button is depressed. But I have yet to find a function in the default controls menu that activates that center button. I see instructions about The Smoke On/Smoke Off, and Tailhook commands but they only affect the nose steering/AP on-off when I bind them. Nothing activates/depresses that little center button on the barrel switch. So as much as I love this jet, I cannot trim it. I can manually control the barrel switch with the mouse (and even then when I press the center button it does not show it depressing). Surely I am missing something…? Trimming is a basic function and should not require multiple switches, correct?

Hi Sweetd31, Honestly, I don't have any experience with Aerosoft scenery, just UTX (which I don't believe is technically "scenery") and Megascenery (which obviouslu is...). ORBX Base Pack (pricy but covers the entire planet) looks considerably better to me than MegaScenery and the individual ORBX sceneries really make a difference. Money is an issue in my case or I'd buy every North America pack they have. My only complaint is that they don't offer my home state, Arizona, for FSX. I'm hoping they will at some point.

First time posting here. Decades of experience with FSX (although I took a break and tried hard to love MSFS2020...too many things regressed instead of progressed there...) Back to FSX! Just bought ORBX sceneries (Base Pack, PNW, and a couple of airports) after trying lots of stuff to make FSX more real and enjoyable. I read LOTS of posts on LOTS of forums. (I'll be posting this on AVSIM as well). I bought Ultimate Terrain X. I bought Megacenery Arizona and California. I downloaded free airport addons. It just wasn't doing it for me. Megascenery added a little realism if I was flying a really high, otherwise it was just lifeless. I wanted better visuals, but something with buildings, trees, etc. A living world! I also tried AI Traffic addons. The only one that worked smoothly and reliably with FSX (Steam Version) was Traffic Global. It took a bit of following instructions in the manual (in other words not super intuitive but easily setup). THAT program really made the airports and sky come alive. Highly recommended!! But I still wanted a better visual environment. So I finally bit the bullet and spent the bucks on ORBX. That gave me everything I wanted. Great scenery, airports, life animation, etc. But when I flew in or out of any mildly busy airport, my FPS wer so low it was almost impossible to enjowy- and landing...forget it! I was really bummed. After all, FSX is decades old and I have a modern computer. FSX ran great before addons. Why couldn't it still run great? I searched forums and found some FSX.cfg tweaks and also recommendations for lowering FSX settings for AI Traffic, ground vehicles, etc. Between the cfg changes and the lowered settings, which lost so little in realism that it wasn't at all detracting, I ended up with such better FPS that I can't believe the difference. I was starting to think that ORBX just was going to kill my FPS in spite of how great it made the FSX world look. So, if anyone using FSX experiiences these performance issues, don't give up. With a few settings and easy text additions to the cfg file, you can have a very smooth running, incrediby improved visual world. What I did: FSX Settings- GRAPHICS Target Frame Rate- Unlimited Filtering- Trilinear Anti-Aliasing- unchecked Bloom and Lens effects- unchecked AIRCRAFT Aircraft Shadows- unchecked SCENERY Level of Detail Raius- Large Mesh Resolution- 38m Tecture Resolution- 60cm Scenery complexity and Autogen density- Dense TRAFFIC Airline density and General aviation density- 46% Airport vehicle density- Low Road Vehicles- 12% FSX.cfg file (located in Users/Your Name/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/FSX (you may have to select Hidden Folders setting to see AppData...not sure..) Add this at the top of the file: [BUFFERPOOLS] PoolSize=0 Add this underneath "[GRAPHICS]" HIGHMEMFIX=1 Add this under "[Display]" SmallPartRejectRadius=4 I do not know WHY these things work but after trying LOTS of tweaks this one made a HUGE difference in my FPS. ORBX airports like LAX or SEA, which had me getting 10-12 FPS now give me 23-35 FPS ! IMPORTANT!!! Always ackup your cfg file just in case, on your system, this causes issues. Happy Flying Everyone! Pete