'Taboo Question'

[cheezyflier]

With my Saitec Flight Yoke i can trim it and fly it like a baby's butt.

Do you have trim switches on your flight yoke, if yes, have you programmed/tweaked them with the right sensitivity/null zone?

actually, i don't have a yoke at all. that could be part of the problem. i use one of these:

i wish i had a yoke and pedals but i have been told that i don't have enough computer to use them.

 

[ryanbatc]

Then by all means adjust your monitor and video card settings. Another option is to use the Zoom panel or the Zoomed Avidyne popups :isadizzy:

The issue is that when using nHancer AA settings the text is blurry, but this happens with all aircraft using vector graphics. I get it on the dreamfleet dakota which uses the RXP GNS430. And unfortunately a lot of users prefer nHancer because you can crank the AA vs. FSX in-game settings.

 

[N400QW]

Ryan, the use of third party tweakers is not recommended by MS. FSX likes to use application controlled settings.

We fail to see how use of tweakers means there is something amiss with our products :isadizzy:

 

[chinookmark]

Acceleration Agusta AH101. It just doesn't seem to fly right, like the rotor is out of phase. And the surging engines annoy me.

Aerosoft Seahawk/Jayhawk. I love these aircraft. They are extremely detailed, and I love the avionics. But recently I've gotten into more detailed scenery, weather, and AI, and these kill the FR with the Aerosoft 60's. Also, they seem maybe a little too stable for my tastes. I'm not talking realism, but for what I want out of FSX, they are too stable and sluggish (although I could tweak the .cfg a bit). And the other thing is the avionics. This is really more of a hardware/practicality problem. I have a hard time working the cyclic and the mouse at the same time, all while holding a steady hover and looking at the panel steadily enough (TrackIR) to turn knobs and push buttons.

Least flown of all time: B314 Clipper for FS2002/04. Never got the darned thing more than 10 feet off the water. Mostly I was just too lazy to ****. But I was also not impressed with the VC. It got the job done, but it just didn't inspire me.

 

[LCBORDEN]

CWDT HELLCAT, on my system this son of a pup is a frame killer. plus not enough buttons and such work. I also purchased the AH mossie, and don't fly it a lick. Not sure why. once again, I don't feel it offers what I expected I guess.

Ol' Jarhead

 

[ryanbatc]

Ryan, the use of third party tweakers is not recommended by MS. FSX likes to use application controlled settings.

We fail to see how use of tweakers means there is something amiss with our products :isadizzy:

The problem is with vector graphics, mostly glass mfd/pfd's. This can be with ANY piece of software. If I use in-game settings, all my autogen shimmers and it is yucky - not to mention the jaggies on the airplanes, since in-game AA only does about 4x.

 

[huub vink]

As I hardly fly in FSX (except for beta testing), the most expensive payware I hardly use is most probably FSX :costumes:.

The Icarusgold Fiat CR32 for FS2004 is the payware aircraft I have purchased and have hardly ever flown. The quality does not come close to the screenshots on the web-site.

Cheers,
Huub

 

[c87]

PMDG 747-400X. I was seduced by the eye candy posted in all those screenshot forums and having had actual experience with this bird in a past real life, I had to have it. Way too complicated for the very brief times I can peel away to get some sim time in. I'm embarassed to say, I haven't even taken one flight yet. Someday.......

 

[LCBORDEN]

well said Huub, I too have all the FSX discs but until I can lay out some serious jingle for a high end machine, or actually hear of a high end machine that can run it, FSX just gathers dust. As so many of you folks have said "once bitten, twice shy" It will take serious convincing for me to buy any "new" offerring without a lot of research.

ol'Jarhead

 

[jmig]

actually, i don't have a yoke at all. that could be part of the problem. i use one of these:

i wish i had a yoke and pedals but i have been told that i don't have enough computer to use them.

Cheezy, you can assign buttons for trim on that alien penis.

 

[hews500d]

Cheezy, you can assign buttons for trim on that alien penis.

:costumes::costumes:

 

[IanP]

The new Saitek Cyborg is released on Friday, according to Amazon. More buttons, more throttles, even more convoluted design. What are you going to nickname that one, jmig?

Ian P.

 

[MaddogK]

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Are there some I don't fly? Sure...after several flights, I just cannot get used to the Rutan's cunard aerodynamics while landing, and it has become frustrating to me. Or, the DA Piper Cheyenne which while absolutely beautiful, has way too many bugs for me to give it further hours. The bugs are mostly related to the Trimble, and I'm just kinda 'done with it'. But these cases are actually few. Some simply get ignored, and deserve more time. One of the great things about simming is we get to enjoy all these various experiances which would be impossible in real life.

Don't give up on the DA Cheyenne just yet. I also went thru the 'I'm done with this junk plane' mood almost a year ago, but in the last week I started working on the Cheyenne panel again and found with just a couple of small mods the plane's Trimble nav unit starts working again, and I've not managed to crash the sim since I fixed the panel.

Firstly- buy the simflyer GPX-SX pack and extract the kmd-550 and the toggle_id150 gauges from the pack with panel studio and put these 2 gauges in your main fs9 gauge folder.(I used the KMD-550TCAS)

Now restore the SP2 panel files to the A/C your working on (I used the 1A vfr/ifr panel for my tests) as well as all the gauge files for the DA Cheyenne from SP2 to the main fs9 gauge folder.

Search the internet for a file named "pa31bk.zip"- I found it on DA's website (I believe), they're a set of alternate panel config files I used for 'ideas', open the file for your panel from this pack and keep it open in notepad. If you use these panel 'as-is' note the author removed one of the transponders from the secondary radio panel, you'll need to change the last number on the component line from '2' to '1' as the author removed transponder #1 by mistake.

Now open up your cheyenne panel your working on, and copy from the pa31bk.zip config (the donor file) the line "Window14=KMD550 Popup" and paste it into your 'real' cheyenne panel file under the 'windows titles' section making sure the window number is changed to reflect it being the last window in the list.

Now copy the entire 'window14' section from the donor file and paste it into your Cheyenne panel in the same position as in the windows list, and rename it to 'windowXX' (XX=whatever number you gave it in the windows section above). Insert into this window whatever GPS unit you desire. </snipped>I used the stock Garmin GPS-500 unit.

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Now in window 5 of the 'real' cheyenne panel you want to add:
gaugeXX=kmd550, 0,9,328,210
gaugeXX=toggle_ID150, 45,30,200,150
</snipped>Remove the file directory name "SFGPXSX!" from both lines in this section (Both gauges are extracted and are in the fs9 gauge folder). I had problems using these gauges in their recieved state, and extracting them to individual gauges made them work properly.
<snipped> >>You're covering the faux GPS display with the working KMD-550 you extracted, and hiding the 'pop-up toggle' behind that. Fill in the XX with the next two sequential gauge numbers for that window.


Add or remove NOTHING more to the panel- it will cause the sim to crash.

Thats it !

Operation: Before flight load a flight plan and after the Trimble unit warms up hit 'aux' and 'enter' and the trimble will be setup with your flight plan, Alternately you can open the second radio stack, click on the KMD-550 unit and your GPS unit (whichever one you chose for the popup window) should appear- in my case the GPS-500, select my goto dest on this unit, then go back to the trimble, hit 'aux', then enter and my picked dest will be loaded into the trimble.

The trick with this Trimble unit and the stock autopilot is getting it to follow a GPS route, but simpler after you do it a few times: take off as normal but notice the GPS nav mode won't engage- bring up the second radio stack and fly the plane manually over the GPS track (on the kmd-550 display) or use the heading bug. As soon as the plane crosses the GPS track-engage GPS nav mode, and the trimble unit should lock to the track and otto will fly the route. If another destination is desired choose one in your 'popup window', then hit 'aux' and 'enter' on the trimble and the otto will turn to intercept the new track.

18 months I've been working on this headache, but I've finally got the DA Cheyenne stable and predictable, and it has become one of my favorite planes of any payware product I've bought in the last 2 years. If with this config it's still not stable (CTD's, ETC) try studying my panel CFG file. ALSO- if it's not working correctly try removing your FSUIPC registration key from the 'modules' folder- for some strange reason my registration of FSUIPC cause many glitches, running unregistered FSUIPC cured many issues with this plane. Make sure you do this on an un-edited copy of your original panel file, I've had nothing but bad luck with any other gauges that are not part of SP2's gauge file set and the EXTRACTED simflyer files.

AWW NUTZ ! Just noticed this was the FSX forums- disregard the above unless someone wants to test it in FSX. Attached is my working PA31T 1A VFR/IFR panel.
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[jankees]

Interesting topic!
For me, the biggest diappointment was probably the AH/JF Mosquito, the model is OK I guess, but I don't like the textures, I don't like the VC, and there is no real paintkit. Flew it a bit, even did one repaint, but uninstalled it.
Anotyher one that I don't fly as much is the IRIS P-40, it seems a bit simple compared to the A2A P-40. I also bought the C-130 in the big sale, but haven't done much with it. I used to fly the FS9 version a lot, and I do like the model, but somehow I never get round to flying it.
My main problem at the moment is that compared to the Accusim Razorback, everything else seems simple and lifeless, so I hardly fly anything else...

 

[Henry]

Interesting topic!
For me, the biggest diappointment was probably the AH/JF Mosquito, the model is OK I guess, but I don't like the textures, I don't like the VC, and there is no real paintkit. Flew it a bit, even did one repaint, but uninstalled it.

ahhhhhhhh sacrilege
:faint:
The paint kit yup.
yup i know i am biased
my only problem is the paint kit
now of course i have great respect for Baz
and his paints he is great
but the ones that came with it
are great i would just love more
i realy have no problem with any payware that i own
but i watch the forums before i buy
my only wish is the corenado bonanza
was fsx
but i purchased it for fs9
H

 

[harleyman]

LOL I knew the skeeter would get ya Henry...

You go Odie..........:ernae:

I don't own many, but I fly the all.........

 

[Barvan40]

AFS Eurofighter Typhoon was one of my first add-ons for FSX. I found it was terrible, bad flight dynamics, bad VC and cheesy looking afterburner effect. After flying it for a few minutes I was disgusted with it so I uninstalled it and put it in my DO NOT FLY hangar.

 

[Brian_Gladden]

For me it was the Flight 1 Piper Meridian. While it is advertised for FS 2004 it crashed my system, all my other Reality XP gauges and nearly the whole sim.

I got a refund but it took me two weeks to get all my third party gauge issues straitened out.

Next would be the Eaglesoft Twin Comanche. Love the model but it's a bit too hard on my system. Same for the Flight 1 PC-12.

Payware that I fly the most would be the Carenado Cessna 206, followed by the 182 and then the Areosoft Beaver. I have all three of them for both FSX and FS9 (Even though 95% of my sim time is in FS9)

Brian

 

[CG_1976]

Good question. My least flown is lionhearts Kodiak awaiting the new one and the most flown, Anything with USCG colors or Cuban FAR.

 

[deimos256]

Alpha turbo Mentor, the painfully slow vc loading killed it and will kill all Alpha releases for me until they put the hammer down about it. Plenty of high end VCs load instantly if not within a second, but their notable releases take up to 8 or 10. unacceptable for someone who switches to external a lot.