2787

I think that if you can easily free look around the cabin, and all the controls are interactable, then that would probably solve the issues I was running into.

2788

I dunno, I can’t imagine what it would be like trying to program a G1000 say using a gamepad. It’s only barely tolerable using mousewheel

2789

A…B…CDEF…(reverse) …FED … (reverse) … E … (outer dial too far) … (outer dial back one place) … etc

Pain in the rear. I’m not lying when I say that I enjoy the King Air and TBM because I can just press letters with the mouse.

2790

So, dumb question time. When I do a cold start in the Longitude, after letting the APU spool up and starting the engines, the N2 goes for each of them goes up to around 25 and just stays there, while the N1 and ITT don’t budge at all. As far as I can tell I’m following the checklists. Any thoughts?

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FWIW, Ctrl-E still works, but obviously that defeats the purpose of a cold start.

Edit: OK, I think I fixed it, thanks to some suggestions on the official forums about propeller/mixture bindings, though I’m not sure exactly which did the trick.

2791

You can plug a keyboard into an Xbox and it does seem like it’s supported by some games designed with both PC and Xbox in mind. I think support for Mouse may be a bit more iffy. Also while it’s not to tough having a nearby keyboard, finding space to actually use a Mouse while gaming on the sofa takes a lot more planning.

2792

That’s why Microsoft partnered with Razer to make an official couch keyboard and mouse. I use one regularly and love it.
https://www.razer.com/gaming-keyboards/razer-turret-for-xbox-one/RZ84-02820200-B3U1

2793

I leased the DA62 to the group. Let me know if there’s anything else I should do to make it run smoothly.

2794

… good scotch in the glovebox? :)

2795

For those wanting a honeycomb alpha, I just got an in stock alert from this shop:

https://www.marvgolden.com/honeycomb-alpha-flight-yoke-and-switch-panel.html

2796

If you want to see some real DA62 ops, Steveo1Kinevo posted a good video this week.

(His videos aren’t typically cheesecake, but Julia’s, um, confident clothing choice comes from her Instagram fame posing with her hotrod collection. And she actually is a private pilot working on her instrument rating. Also, Florida.)

2797

Anyone else get selected for the Volanta beta? It’s a flight tracker app associated with OrbX. I just got in; DennyA.

Signups are here, if you’re interested: https://forms.gle/gAtJK6kbs1kVjzE69

More info at http://volanta.app

Looks worth doing just because you can now track your cross-countries in DCS. You know you’ve been needing that capability!

2798

Just signed up, we will see.

2799

From some wonderful person on reddit comes this shot. I know this is the CJ4, not the Longitude, but damn!

2800

https://youtu.be/GdGB0cv6i8I

2801

“Captured on Xbox Series X”. Yessss. It probably doesn’t look as good as Ultra settings on a good PC, but it already looks better than medium settings, which is the highest I could run it on my PC so that it wouldn’t pause for 5 seconds between frames.

2802

This keeps hard crashing my computer. I wonder if it’s due to my overclock or if it’s still bugs. It hard crashed a week ago, then they did a patch that fixed it, and now with the latest hotfix it’s hard crashing my system again.

@Editer have any potential insight into this?

2803

Any details on the crash? Is it at startup? Do you get to the menu but crash loading in the game? Crashing in flight? What detail level are you running? Live weather? Live player traffic?

I had issues after reload on the new system until I read up on their forum about having selected a different drive for the data folder. I just needed to reload all the content and I was fine after. No crashes though, and I also have a new 3000 series card which I believe you do as well.

Lean on the forum there and get a ticket on Zendesk if you haven’t already.

2804

This time I created a flight for daytime from Grand Rapids to Sparta. Saved the flight path. When i went to launch just when it was showing the the runway is when I had the awful screeching crash.

2805

Like actual sound crash too with noise or just a CTD? If the former, that’s the -first- place I’d check.

There is a long running thread for crashes on their forum too, Jeff.

2806

Hey Jeff, when I was tuning my crappily cooled CyberPowerPC, Flight Sim was the game I used to test, because it really pushes the thermals to the limit. If you have thermal monitoring software for your motherboard and GPU, I’d try running that with the sim to make sure you’re not overheating. (My 10900K was in the mid-90s playing FS withy CyberPowerPC’s criminally bad default cooler; replaced it with a Noctua and added more case cooling to drop peak temps into the upper 60s.)

Also, can you disable any overclocking and see if the helps? FS pushes systems like no other game, so if an overclock isn’t stable, it’s going to trigger things. I’ve found overclocking gets little gain in most modern games anyway, so worth a try to run at stock speeds.

Finally, if you have anything in your Community folder, drag it out to a temporary folder just to make sure it’s an add-on.