Just noticed that Lockheed Martin had released P3D v5.2 a few days ago. Descriptions sound good with more than 100 new features and fixes and improvements. https://www.prepar3d.com/news/announcements/2021/06/120786/
Hope this update solves the many issues reported before.
If you have ever used any trim wheel circuited with an encoder before, you should have experienced that the last position remembered by it could be very annoying if you forget to set its position back to the center at the start of a flight.
Since I got the Cessna Trim Wheel from Saitek many years ago, I’ve been looking for a solution to this annoyance. But search is futile.
So when I found out Flight Velocity was soon to release a new product called Trim Wheel Pro which would use new software last Decemeber, I was quite excited, hoping that it could be a remedy to my agony.
Unfortunately, after checking with the company, the new player is no exception. The issue seems to be unsolvable. Continue reading
Yesterday, I got the Trim Wheel Pro from Flight Velocity, which I am planning to replace the Saitek Cessna Trim Wheel which has been in service for many years.
A unique feature that distincts it from the Saitek one is an adjustable control knob on the unit, thru which users can vary and finetune the elevator trimming pitch during a flight.
After Logitech chopped the production of Saitek Cessna Trim Wheel since its acquisition, there aren’t similar trim wheels on the market one can find for a long time.
Is this Trim Wheel Pro a good replacement ?
How does it perform ?
Is the adjustable knob useful ? Continue reading
Unlike the way I spent for FSX and P3D, I am quite cautious about getting airports and sceneries for MSFS these days as the overall presentation in the simulator is quite good already.
One exception, however, is the enhancement addons, such as Meshes.
No doubt, there are some pretty good freeware meshes or DEMs available as mentioned in my Post 689. But I must say that many payware products are still worth of what they are — the New Zealand Mesh from Orbx and the Switzerland Mesh from FSDreamTeam are two good examples. Continue reading
The Aircreation SL582 in FSX/P3D was one of my favorite aircraft since I like low and slow VFRs. In MSFS, I prefer the Aerolite 103 by Nemeth Designs over it for similar flights. In particular, the dynamic rotary-style ADF and ADF Signal Reception Features are fun and useful.
The other three gauges Continue reading
Philippe aka 1L2P in France spent a lot of time on flight simulators about thirty years ago. He decided to come to fly again when he saw the early versions of MSFS 2020. Followings are what he built so far.
Builder: Philippe aka 1L2P
Location: Île-de-France, France
ICAO: LFPN, Toussus-le-Noble Airport
Project Notes: Continue reading
After months of tuning the Full Forward View adjustments described in Post 638, I have standardized the settings of the following three (3) paramters in “LandingPilot” [CAMERADEFINITION.2] on all aircraft as follows:
InitialZoom = 0.6
This gives me a zoom level generally the same as the external aircraft view.
InitialPbh = 0, 0, 0
This puts all aircraft on the ground horizontally without any tilting.
InitialXyz = x, x, x
These three values are aircraft-specific, in which I adjust: Continue reading
In the last few days, I got a chance to test the beta version 1.3 of the SkyElite for MSFS by 4FlightSims.
One of the improvements that impresses me is the fixing of text displays on soft keys and info pages that I reported in Post 659. Now they are properly aligned.
Regarding new features, the most significant should be the SE1000 AHRS mode in the PFD. Although it is different in style and operations from the G1000s on the default aircraft in MSFS, it functions equally as good in general.
In addition, Continue reading
Rick Sheehan, a friend in the US, reported that he recently ran into a problem updating Gaming Services; showing an error 0x8007139f. Since then, he couldn’t load MSFS (Microsoft Store version) any more.
After searched more than 50 sites and tried numerous possible fixes including several PowerShell fixes to no avail in a few days, he found a solution to get past the error, at the brim of reinstalling the simulator.
All he did was Continue reading
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