I know the first 4 definitions in an aircraft’s camera.cfg define the positions of Pilot (VFR), ClosePilot (IFR), LandingPilot and Copilot in the virtual cockpit respectively.
But I always mix them up and don’t remember what keyboard commands are used to activate them, even though I modify them from time to time.
So when I was re-configurating new cameras for the C172 recently, I deliberately captured the four positions and put them here for my future reference.
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Following the Zenith CH701 STOL, some of the FIP gauges for the Nemeth Designs Aerolite 103 have also been updated. Major enhancements in the R1r02 update include revisions to the Engine Cluster plus an extended version of the ADF which provides additional wind direction and magnitude information.
Email with the download link for the update has been sent to all users earlier. If you don’t see the email within the next 24 hours, please check your spam folder first and then contact me. Continue reading
The Engine Cluster 2 of the Zenith CH701 STOL released earlier this month has been updated to R1r01, which enhances the performance of Water Temperature gauge while running with the default Logitech MSFS Plugins.
An additional SPAD.neXt version of the said gauge is included to allow accurate water temperature reading via the dedicated Local Variable (LVar).
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Thanks to Mikael in Sweden who sponsored me the SimWorks Studios (SWS) Zenith CH701 STOL, associated FIP instruments for the aircraft have just been released.
Mikael says, “I don’t fly these type of aircraft IRL but it is just something fun about this little bird for extreme bush flying.” Couldn’t agree with him more even though this slow speed Ultralight isn’t my favorite.
The gauge set basically includes the Airspeed Indicator (with MPH and additional KNOTS versions) plus the seven (7) Engine Gauges grouped in two Clusters.
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Elgato Stream Deck may not be a stranger to you. The first time I heard about it was from Philippe AKA 1L2P in his Cockpit story last June. Frankly, I didn’t pay attention to it at all until I saw a demo in a shopping arcade a few months ago. I was amazed. 
Now it has become one of the indispensable accessories in my computer system, not just for flight simulation. Continue reading
One of the features I missed the most after moving to MSFS from P3d is the 3-monitor setup. I believe many friends feel the same.
A friend, KaseLite, who told me in an earlier email saying that he is running MSFS on three PCs with Wideview and the result is very good. But he admitted that the approach isn’t economical. Besides the hardware cost, you need to buy the same flight simulator, aircrafts and addons for all machines.
Nevertheless, KaseLite says that the graphics are the best this way. You can run all machines at maximum solution.
Here’s a demonstration video of his 3-monitor MSFS setup KaseLite took upon my request to share with other friends here. Thank you.
Builder: KaseLite
Aircraft: N333ZS
Home Airport: KSBA, Santa Barbara Municipal Airport
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Saw an interesting discusion from an MSFS forum yesterday about where we should buy our addons from — the MSFS MarketPlace or the Developer’s website or their partnered webstores ?
Most people support the latter because in comparison the price is generally cheaper and the product release and update times are faster.
I agreed with them in general. But the truth I found is: not all developers have good customer services and not all developers/webstores will prompt you for updates and bugs immedately. And the most frustrated is this “missing link” sometimes leads to CTDs after MSFS updates.
There were many times I had to Google and trial and error to find out what addon(s) was (or were) the cause(s). Spending hours to catch the bugs wasn’t uncommon in my experience.
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The hybrid-style altimeter which has analog needles and digit display are always my favorite. While flying the Aerosoft DHC-6 lately, I noticed that the “thousand” and “10-thousand” digits on the altimeter are not simply linear scrolling according to height. The numbers start to scroll up or down to the next value only from the last “50” and “500” at every hundred and thousand segment respectively.
I then thought it would be fun to add this little effect to the DHC-6 altimeter as such, although I tend to prefer the flipping style as it is more precise and easier to read.
After received my second RD1 unit, I immediately swapped it with the first one being used in my main system. Assuming it could run directly straight out from the box. Sadly, no, it didn’t.–
Truly, the joystick axes for the rudders and brakes are the same. But the new RD1 performed far from normal using the calibration from the first RD1.
The Rudder Axis wasn’t centered at rest. And the left and right Brake Axes were jumping up and down and didn’t return to zero when released, meaning that the toe brakes were somehow pressed all the time.
Obviously, the two RD1s are two individual equipment and they couldn’t be treated as the same unit. Initial calibration for each individual RD1, therefore, was mandatory and inescapable. Continue reading
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