enchantedloom

LOVE the landing lights reflecting off clouds! A really nice touch.

Wow! Can't wait!

Oops, I seem to have hijacked this thread - sorry :-\ Great plane, BTW - I look forward to it becoming my default, once I can turn the damn knobs! So they are. Mea culpa. I think I'm starting to see phantoms! I'm a dev myself and I should take more careful observations! FOV is 0.70, although it seems about the same on 0.75. It turns out it IS TrackIR, though! I just tried using a fixed view of the panel instead of the shift-9 "3D cockpit command-look" view that's used with TrackIR and it works just fine in that! Whoosh! Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, it also suffers from the same issue as the XFR switch, in that the direction is reversed when my eyeline is below the knob. That might explain the apparent randomness of it. Yesterday I said I was getting no movement at all when I drag up or down, but today I could get about the same vertically as horizontally. It depends crucially on the angle I view the knob. Someone's got their quaternions in a tangle somewhere! There isn't any head position that gives me a decent rate of change, though. If I sit right back in First Class I get no more movement. So it's something to do with that cockpit view, at least when using TrackIR. Something messing with the metrics, maybe. I just loaded up my Jetstream for comparison and there does seem to be a small difference in rate between fixed and TrackIR views but it's less than a factor of 2 and far less pronounced than in the Saab. Thanks for all your help. At least I can sit up higher and set a joystick button to give me a fixed panel view when I need it.

Thanks for the replies, guys. Aha! I just tried it again and it depends on where my head is (I use TrackIR). If my eyeline is even slightly below the switch then when I drag up it moves down and recalls the memory. If I'm above the switch then it moves the way I drag it. So I guess that's an XP issue. Either way, now that I know this I can easily work around it. My mom always said I should sit more upright! Good idea! I'll do that. There's no chance of me overshooting by an inch! :-) If I put the altitude selector in the very middle of the screen at normal zoom (i.e. my head behind the throttle quadrant) and then drag left or right to the edge of the screen it gives me about a thousand feet if I'm lucky. Dragging vertically gives me nothing and at 45 degrees I get two or three hundred feet. So in absolutely ideal conditions I can get to cruise altitude in 20-odd careful mouse movements. Is that the kind of change I should expect? It seems awfully slow compared to other a/c. Good thing I haven't tried it on PilotEdge, because I'd never be able to respond to altitude instructions quickly enough. Come to that, ALL the manipulators are really slow - a half-screen drag on the radios gives me one or two digits of change. So might TrackIR be causing me grief here too? I should have tried without, but I've shut XP down now. I'll fiddle with it next time and see.

Is this related to the problem I'm having? Sometimes flicking the XFR switch up swaps NAV frequencies, as it should, but then all of a sudden flicking it up recalls the memory instead, and flicking it down now swaps frequencies. And then it'll randomly change back. So I get my freqs all lined up ready and then at the critical moment it wipes my standby frequency with what was in memory! I rush to punch the numbers back in and try again, and half the time the thing chooses that moment to revert to normal and I lose my standby frequency a second time. "Guess which way to flick the button" is a great game for passing time enroute, but a bit frustrating in the middle of a STAR! I'm having manipulator problems elsewhere, too. The VS adjuster is very finicky (and it's hard to see if it has moved), and clicking and dragging the altitude selector only gives me a couple of hundred feet change before I run out of screen, which means selecting a descent from FL250 is a pretty lengthy operation! Any ideas? - Steve