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ickna posted:Check this poo poo out: Awesome. I'll check that out. As for the multi-key combos, that's why I'm using: https://github.com/ashupp/Streamdeck-vJoy So you create a vJoy controller with up to like 128ish buttons and a half dozen axes. That thing I linked lets you create Streamdeck buttons that can trigger any of the vJoy stuff (including axis position). My AP page looks like this:  Those are just buttons 1-32 in a vJoy controller. I set them up, then went into MSFS and bound each of them (it shows up as an entirely separate controller, so it doesn't interfere with existing flight stick or gamepad). I found this has two advantages vs a normal streamdeck thing that does keyboard commands: 1. No issues with multi-key ordering stuff like you're seeing. Each function is just its own button with no modifiers. 2. It works regardless of which window is currently in focus, which is really nice on a multi-monitor set up where I've got MSFS in the main window Netflix on the other one.
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Bedurndurn posted:Awesome. I'll check that out. Hell yeah, I am integrating this in right now. much better than hotkeys.
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Airline pilot does a G1000 tutorial with MSFS https://youtu.be/Dn2owgrsiUs e: After watching it, not so much a hardcore tutorial, more of a walkthrough while doing a flight. slidebite fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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Subscribed to OnAir  I've worked out the kinks in it and I'm ready to continue my round-the-world job chain.My trip so far: 
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My anti-virus has decided tag FS2020.exe is malware and keeps deleting it from my computer ever since the newest update, so I guess I have to wait for a kaspersky update before I can fly again. This games so realistic, I think I’m a furloughed pilot now.
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V for Vegans posted:My anti-virus has decided tag FS2020.exe is malware and keeps deleting it from my computer ever since the newest update, so I guess I have to wait for a kaspersky update before I can fly again. This games so realistic, I think I’m a furloughed pilot now. Mine is crashing to desktop a lot more lately so you're not missing much. Especially after all the loading is complete and it's about to go to the world, so it's just wasted 10 minutes of my time loading only to crash.
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https://youtube.com/c/ERAUSpecialVFR/videos This channel has some good irl pilot training videos with some very useful 3D visualizations, can definitely recommend
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With this new engine a mission mode for fire crew tanker drops could be loving amazing.
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Kerosene19 posted:With this new engine a mission mode for fire crew tanker drops could be loving amazing. It'd probably look amazing for the people who buy a 3090ti and could actually render it. 
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V for Vegans posted:My anti-virus has decided tag FS2020.exe is malware and keeps deleting it from my computer ever since the newest update, so I guess I have to wait for a kaspersky update before I can fly again. This games so realistic, I think I’m a furloughed pilot now. Man I’m far from an expert in this area but I used kaspersky for years and when I finally stopped so much poo poo ran so much better and I’ve never had any security issues since using other AV/anti malware solutions. Maybe you’ve got a different situation but imo that poo poo sucks and you should dump it.
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Kerosene19 posted:With this new engine a mission mode for fire crew tanker drops could be loving amazing. There are all kinds of opportunities for cool and unique mission types they could implement. I wouldn't mind seeing some aerobatic and air race stuff added myself. Would give some purpose to the aerobatic craft in the game currently.
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sigher posted:edit: So my lady was guiding me over the phone and teaching me how to fly, I got lost somewhere and she wanted to show me how to use the Garmin 300 in the C172 to lock onto an airport and be able to find my way because using dead reckoning wasn't working since I had no clue where I was; she was able to guide me through using the GPS to search for the airport but then she told me to press "Direct, then Enter and Enter again" and it would take me back to the map and there would be a pink line from the plane directly to the airport. However nothing happened. I remember when the game first came out that people were talking about how certain NAV systems were completely broken or not implemented, is this one of them? Or was I missing a step somewhere down the line that didn't make it work? I don't entirely know and I'm mostly just bumping in case the edit was completely missed. If you just wanted to figure out where the hell you were, you can bring up a menu by moving the mouse up to the top of the screen, and you can bring up a map that way. That should bring up a "VFR Map" window that you can control and figure out exactly where you are. However, I'm guessing something in that plane is basically already showing that view, but you can at least easily zoom in/out and pan the VFR map. If you were planning to navigate based on some coordinate, then that's a whole other ball game. If you planned to have the autopilot take care of it, this would be some things you probably have to overcome: 1. Telling the autopilot to navigate. 2. Making sure the autopilot is set to navigate to whatever coordinate you entered. 3. Turning on the autopilot in the first place. It's the first thing to think of but the last thing to do because it might slam you into the ground otherwise. Or it might slam you into the ground anyways!
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Well, major step backwards trying to do an autopilot RNAV approach to Fort Lauderdale. The first time I brought it up, I saw a bonus "USER" waypoint in the flight plan set to... 33 feet. Caught ya! I just manually programmed the flight plan in and included a enroute waypoint to BEZER. I didn't fly through it but I flew near it and entered BLAIM in line with the runway. I have no loving clue what the autopilot did for the approach. Okay, I know what it did, but not what it was thinking. It slammed me right into the runway! It just pointed the nose right at it. Edit: Tried again and it seemed okayish. I bounced from how it hit the runway so I must be coming in too fast with the autopilot. It's faster than I would normally prefer to land anyways. I'm still having a hard time telling that the approach is actually working. The only indication I have is that my altitude continues to drop, but that could be from the autopilot making GBS threads its pants and deciding to crash, or it somehow disengaging. Rocko Bonaparte fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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You can’t autoland from an RNAV approach, you’re supposed to disconnect the autopilot no lower than the decision altitude and land manually (or go around if you don’t see the runway). The only autopilots that are going to safely guide you all the way to touchdown are autoland-equipped airliners on an appropriate ILS approach.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:If you were planning to navigate based on some coordinate, then that's a whole other ball game. If you planned to have the autopilot take care of it, this would be some things you probably have to overcome: I'm not sure if the 172 has autopilot, but I was talking more on the map it wasn't showing the pink line to the airport I selected in the menu. It just doesn't wasn't working.
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CaptainEO posted:You can’t autoland from an RNAV approach, you’re supposed to disconnect the autopilot no lower than the decision altitude and land manually (or go around if you don’t see the runway). What about ILS while flying the TBM? I had one decent landing that way on accident. I set an RNAV landing in the world map, but I notice in the navigation plan that it likes to make that an ILS approach. I got fixated on RNAV since it's to me and I saw it at all the airports. I figured it was worth knowing just for that. It sounds like bad news if your little airport is fogged in.
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An auto land feature requires special level ILS at the airport and the aircraft to have 2 separate autopilot systems. So yeah, only transport level aircraft, and newer ones at that.
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I have flown an a36 bonanza IRL many times. THE G36 bonanza in fs20 is DOGSHIT. Wanna know why? Turns out the config file has the bonanzas engine as 4 cylinders. The engine should be a fuel injected horizontally opposed 6 cylinder 275 MONSTER OF AN ENGINE AND THEY LEFT IT WITH 4 CYLINDERS???? Reddit hotfix link here https://reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/ihpc9d/mod_for_default_asobo_bonanza_g36_engine_drag/
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Captain Apollo posted:I have flown an a36 bonanza IRL many times. See, I knew the bonanza felt underpowered! Granted, I was just talking out of my rear end based on my inability to get anywhere near the rated performance statistics. edit: dude didn't even flinch 
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Bedurndurn posted:Awesome. I'll check that out. Wow that's brilliant.
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slidebite posted:If I break out my Warthog for this thing, is it mapped by default or am I going to have to take 2 hours to map every single axis and button? There are default mappings and they're pretty good. I changed the gear up/down to a switch with RSMapper. I also tried mapping autopilot modes to the AP switch, but while it worked well the system is simply too complicated for just a 3-way switch. I also unlinked the left throttle handle and I'm using it for elevator trim. (After removing the center deadzone.) Works better than all other solutions I tried. I'm still tempted to break out my Cougar throttle for the extra rotaries though. I would do it if I had a bigger desk.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Well, major step backwards trying to do an autopilot RNAV approach to Fort Lauderdale. The first time I brought it up, I saw a bonus "USER" waypoint in the flight plan set to... 33 feet. Caught ya! The RNAV glide slope looks at two GPS nav points and trigonometries a slope to follow. Autopilot will attempt to aim at the slope using pitch adjustment and follow the vector between points using roll adjustment. You should again notice this does not control speed or throttle. You control the throttle, usually to give a nice balanced speed of ready to stop plus ready to go around. ILS gets a vector and a slope from a radio transmitter but otherwise the same, it controls pitch and roll, you control throttle. Either way when you are in spitting distance you disengage, flare, and touchdown. You don't need to blindly trust you have captured a slope. And shouldn't, you're a butt in a seat for your big smart pilot brain. Each approach plate has a glide slope angle. You can use this with your expected approach speed to trigonometry a descent rate. You've captured the slope when your descent rate matches expectations. The glide display is doing the same thing and even correcting for procession and everything to show high or low, but you know, slope capturing and everything being buggy you might still want to know the neighborhood of your descent rate. Rocko Bonaparte posted:What about ILS while flying the TBM? I had one decent landing that way on accident. I set an RNAV landing in the world map, but I notice in the navigation plan that it likes to make that an ILS approach. Is MSFS in a glass cockpit you can usually use the runways painted into your PFD if you don't care to follow IFR to the letter and noones going to get mad or tell on you and you're most importantly not going to die because of a GPS failure because it's a game.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:I have no loving clue what the autopilot did for the approach. Okay, I know what it did, but not what it was thinking. It slammed me right into the runway! It just pointed the nose right at it. Correct! If even if you capture the glide slope on an ILS setup with the approach mode the autopilot is still just trying to fly you to a specific place. You still need to configure flaps, gear, and set power appropriately. You still need to kill power, flare, and hit the brakes like a normal landing. You're almost certainly coming in way, way too fast. In general, don't think about landing as "flying onto the runway" but instead "losing my last drop of speed and height while moving along the runway." Landing: https://www.av8n.com/how/htm/landing.html
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:What about ILS while flying the TBM? I had one decent landing that way on accident. I set an RNAV landing in the world map, but I notice in the navigation plan that it likes to make that an ILS approach. (Not a pilot warnings) RNAV is to get you almost all of the way to the runway but not actually land you. If you don't disengage the AP, you might land safely (because you were more or less on the right glide path coming in), but I don't think it knows how to flare (or when it should flare), so it's going to be a sucky landing. You might also end up coming in short or long because again, it's not an accurate approach. In general, fog and weather stuff reduces how far you can see, the idea is that the RNAV gets you *really close*. From there, you should be able to see the runway and its lights so you can take it from there. If you *can't* see at that minimum altitude, you have to do the missed approach stuff to go around for another go or get out safely and try to land somewhere else. Oh, here's a pilot guy going over how to read an RNAV approach plate that explains all the things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92z5UZCeDEQ
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The TBM is super slippery too, descending at 1000-1500fpm even at idle will keep you above flap speed unless you're careful and in instrument conditions this will mean you're either floating for way too long or have to smash the reverse thrust as soon as you hit the runway, a shallower descent from cruise to approach helps to manage your speed on final and less speed means more decision making time especially if your decision altitude is inside fog. I've about nailed flying at just above flap speed in a 152 but the TBM wants to go fast at all times, usually it's 170-180kts on approach because i'm a bad pilot.
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Once you have approach flaps and/or gear out the TBM 930 behaves more like a normal plane, and full flaps is like a parachute. Speed management starts early i.e. throttle at 50-60% on descent cutting back to 25% when you're getting serious about approach but you can generally get to gear/approach flap speed by zeroing throttle and pulling up then you can pretty aggressively dive with full flaps without much further acceleration to get back on track. I practically dive bombed an approach yesterday doing exactly that when I realized I was in the need for speed zone with the numbers coming up fast. I need to look closer at the maneuver plate again, I think the white speed tape is full flaps, you can drop approach flaps slightly faster. But might be mixing that up with gear drop speed.
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A lot of the midrange planes seem over powered as well. Literally. As in if you ever set full power the engines will melt, even on TOGA. I can't set the TBM's power above 70% or the ITT will go into the red zone. The longitude is especially bad, it almost feels like they looked up the total engine power and then put that much power into each engine so you have to takeoff roll at 50%, except the rotate speed seems way too low so you take off and immediately fly at critical AoA until you build up a little more speed.
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Hey can anyone help me with this please? I tried to triangulate my position using two VORs but I think I’m doing something wrong? Top VOR is tuned to TJRV’s, Nav2 is tuned to TIST’s. Any help would be appreciated! Linked because the image is huge: https://imgur.com/a/folIi5a UnknownTarget fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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I've pretty much just been flying the DA40, it's very easy to land but gets blown around a lot at altitude
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Sapozhnik posted:A lot of the midrange planes seem over powered as well. Literally. As in if you ever set full power the engines will melt, even on TOGA. I can't set the TBM's power above 70% or the ITT will go into the red zone. LOL if you’re not blasting around at 500 TAS everywhere in the longitude. Also the candy cane is way off on it so who knows how much they actually got right with it.
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UnknownTarget posted:[s]Hey can anyone help me with this please? I found a couple instances of the same sort of displacement during the alpha. There’s something that’s not QUITE right about either the placement of VOR stations or the relationship between magnetic and true north. Given that you can often SEE the navaid on the ground, I suspect it’s the latter. I’ve found a couple airways between VORs where swapping between stations on reciprocal bearings results in a 10-15° offset, which is extremely not-correct.
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Sapozhnik posted:A lot of the midrange planes seem over powered as well. Literally. As in if you ever set full power the engines will melt, even on TOGA. I can't set the TBM's power above 70% or the ITT will go into the red zone. I have no real life flying experience but given the X-plane TBM was pretty lovingly crafted and the MSFS one has a similar feel in its power and throttle, So I think the TBM might be okay. It is very easy to over torque. If you’re speaking about ITT specifically, make sure you’re turning off the inertial separator when appropriate. Longitude is bad/weird though.
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MrYenko posted:I found a couple instances of the same sort of displacement during the alpha. There’s something that’s not QUITE right about either the placement of VOR stations or the relationship between magnetic and true north. Given that you can often SEE the navaid on the ground, I suspect it’s the latter. Ok I thought it might have to do with how they modeled magnetic declination but that should definitely not affect the VORs like this. Thanks! I'm really rusty on VOR NAV so I wasn't sure if it was me or the sim. For all you folks who want to learn about this stuff; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magne...graphic%20North In summary: magnetic declination is the difference between where the compass points to North and where North actually is. Across the planet, there is a variation (map included). So when you are setting a course (and someone correct me here if I'm wrong) by North then you have to add or subtract X number of degrees from your heading to make sure you're actually going the right way. For example, around the Caribbean it's about -14°. So if I was setting a course for heading 25, heading North East, I'd actually have to set my course to 25-14 = 11° to head the right way. For example, this is setting the declination on a handheld compass: https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/compass-declination.html#:~:text=Turn%20the%20compass%20over.,degrees%20West%20in%20this%20example). 
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Cancelbot posted:The TBM is super slippery too, descending at 1000-1500fpm even at idle will keep you above flap speed unless you're careful and in instrument conditions this will mean you're either floating for way too long or have to smash the reverse thrust as soon as you hit the runway, a shallower descent from cruise to approach helps to manage your speed on final and less speed means more decision making time especially if your decision altitude is inside fog. That's largely due to the current turboprop model being fundamentally broken and not modeling drag from the propeller. On most real world turboprops, bringing the power level to flight idle results in the propeller going to a setting where the blades are pretty much perpendicular to the airflow, which produces a huge amount of drag and makes managing airspeed in a descent fairly easy. MSFS doesn't model that drag at all, so it makes the TBM and King Air way more "slippery" than the actual airplanes are.
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UnknownTarget posted:[s]Hey can anyone help me with this please? I'm kind of confused. TJRV isn't a VOR? Your radio looks like it's set to 114.0, which is San Juan, 23.1 miles to the north west of where your bearing circle thing is. Are you maybe over here? 
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Bedurndurn posted:I'm kind of confused. TJRV isn't a VOR? Your radio looks like it's set to 114.0, which is San Juan, 23.1 miles to the north west of where your bearing circle thing is. That looks more right. I think I mistook the in-sim map to have a VOR location at TJRV: http://www.airnav.com/airport/TJRV. But it looks like you're right, I was tuned into San Juan's VORTAC. quote:VOR radial/distance VOR name Freq Var EDIT: What website is that?
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UnknownTarget posted:That looks more right. I think I mistook the in-sim map to have a VOR location at TJRV: http://www.airnav.com/airport/TJRV. Skyvector in World Lo mode.
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Bedurndurn posted:Skyvector in World Lo mode. Ty! Here is the corrected map:  EDIT: For the learners (and myself) - notice that the STT VOR is rotated to the left by about 13 degrees. This is due to Magnetic Declination. The declination in this area is around -13 to -14 °, so that was subtracted from the VOR's "True North" by SkyVector. UnknownTarget fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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