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May I ask which one is that? Reallife maybe? Thanks, Alex

Nice video althought I would have preferred the original engine noise instead of the chamber music. Is that the default sunset and clouds used or RexPlane? Thanks, Alex

The feeing is mutual. Your posts contained exactly zero useful information if I take away tidbits of questionable value regarding your setup in DCS: Blackshark. Much relevant.

You clearly have too much time on your hands brother. Read my post above. Grats on another bullseye shot on your side with my 'inability to use complicated software' and the references to my 'crappy' hardware. ;D Other than that thanks for finely admitting that you have never used the view presets in Pilot View. You would not have had much luck anyhow if you tried to hold Control+Shift+Down+F1 together as you were suggesting ever so helpfully:D Sorry brother but that was a dead giveaway.

Yes you are quite right. I am using the Saitek yoke and the like. However one of the major no-nos regarding the Saitek yoke is using its own programming software. If you use the Saitek yoke then you must surely have heard of the phatom keypress issue that plagues that products for years. One of the only countermeasures at the time was not using its own programming software and letting the sim manage the button assignments. You did that and the yoke was working perfectly. So I am much prejudiced against their own software and was looking for an alternative solution most likely a native support by the plugin itself. Alas it was now confirmed that joystick is not supported. Thanks anyways, Alex

Yes, the idea is much appreciated. Will report if I was successful. Thx, Alex

Thank you guys, your effort is much appreciated. Sandy in the meantime replied basically saying that joystick buttons are not supported. What a letdown I must say but at least this thing is clarified for now. Thanks again, Alex

Hi (sorry but no idea about your first name), Without going into further arguments may I ask one thing and I would appreciate an honest reply: do you yourself use this plugin to be qualified to give advice? Because the things you write do not answer at all my now carefully worded query. I want to know how to assign the preset combinations to a joystick button. I have no idea on what accounts you assume that I have not read every available info on the plugin. The website you provided is no extra information as it is the main download site for the plugin so obviously I studied it. Look at this thing from my point of view and perhaps you understand why I might be agitated at your response: 1/ I spend weeks to find a solution to a query regarding one of the most popular plugins for X-Plane called Pilot View. 2/ As I find no solution I post a query entitled 'Pilotview question' and inside that post I precisely ask a question which should be self-evident to anyone using the plugin: 'how to assign presets to a JOYSTICK button' 3/ Enters you with your reply suggesting that I should maybe experiment with the Pilot View plugin and helpfully provide the download link for the Plugin. (One cannot get the plugin without visiting that site brother) You also provide a tutorial on the basic X-Plane View menu 4/ I reply not understanding how this should be helpful to me at all and reword my query: 'Do you know how to assign preset views to a joystick button?' 5/ In response I get a lecture from you and then an insert explaining how to assign presets to keystroke combinations. My query is still not answered in any fashion. If you take the time to carefully analyse your insert you might relialize that it says nothing about joystick buttons. Once again the insert you copied here tells the reader how to assign preset views to key combinations but I still do not know how to assign the preset to a joystick button the same way all the rest of the X-Plane keystrokes could be assigned to a joystick internally within X-Plane. Do you need a separate programming software to do that because that is not an option and not recommended with X-Plane. I have a vague feeling you do not use this plugin at all. By the way the hotkey modifier control+shift+down in your example that you suggest to assign to a button (HOW?) would not work as you do not need to assign those three buttons at the same time but only two of them: control and shift. Down means to press the buttons down. And the key combinations are best editet from within the Plugin Administration menu inside X-Plane. So no, it is not precise or any ways deep enough for my like. I am still searching for an answer from someone in the know. Alex

Some very obvious misunderstanding here. My topic title says Pilotview question. So how does it help me to say that I should experiment with the Pilotview plugin. I am experimenting with the damn thing for weeks but cannot for the love of God find out how to assign a preset view to a joystick button. Also thanks but I am quite familiar with the X-Plane basic view menu. I mean that' should be something one learns in the first hour, not? Have you experimented with the Pilotview plugin? Do you know how to assign preset views to a joystick button? Or just heard about the thing but do not know much.... Any other takers? To be honest with Pilotview being one of the top plugins for Xplane I cannot comprehend how come no one really wanted so far to assign views to a joystick.... Alex

Just a quick question: do these sceneries have watermasks and show X-Plane's real water or just a photoscenery representation that covers off the real water. Thanks Alex

Hi, I searched everywhere still have not found information on whether the presets could also be assigned to a joystick button as well instead of a key press combination? For example to assign the favourite views to the hatswitch directions on the yoke. How do you do this? Dearly appreciate any help rendered, Alex

May I ask someone in the know about what improvements have been done in the REX weather engine as compared to the standard X-Plane one? My main gripe with XP real weather is how it translates online METAR information to the actual weather depicted in the sim. X-Plane has 3 cloud layers and each of the 3 must be 3000 feet thick. The 2nd cloud layer is 6000 feet above the first and there is a similar gap between the 2nd and the 3rd layer. The METAR conversion never includes any cirrus and startus clouds. If the metar has two layers that are closer than 6000 feet from each other (which is regularly the case) it just creates the second layer 6000' above the first one creating a far from reality weather depiction. (Example METAR FEW150 OVC400 would be depicted as a cumulus scattered layer at 1500 feet plus a cumulus overcast layer at 7500' !!!) Another major gripe is that if there is no reporting station at an airport it would just use the latest loaded instead of weather from the closes METAR station. Did the REX weather engine (online metar depiction) better these issues? Thanks for any informed(!) opinion, Alex

Hey, I was just about to start my first flight in X-plane (still unsure about few of the rendering settings but I am not put off at all by the visuals as I really hated the FSX cartoon world) but then I realized that my planned destination airport is not in te database (ENSR in Norway). So here I go again. Besides not being a fan of cartoony graphics I came over to avoid constant tweaking yet I am asking the following questions: What is the best use for each tool to create a new airport with relatively the shortest time commitment: I know there is WED which looks like some sort of an AFCAD tool for airport layout. I know there is the Overlay Editor which at first blick seems to be very foreign and complicated. ... and there is this conversion tool to import sceneries from FS9 or FSX. Does this conversion tool import also the airport layout or only the scenery objects (provided they are not from Microsoft). Can't I just convert a base scenery from FS9 or FSX to have a base runway and taxiway layout to be played with later on? This is a relatively simple airport (basically an airstrip with a small tower and terminal building plus two taxiways) and I do not want to go down the eternal tweaking road once again. But since this airport is the first stop in an IVAO world tour I would love to have it present in XPlane as well. The Airport also has a LOC-DME navaid, basically an offset type localizer - which tools would have to be used to create this navaid which is an indispensable component for the approach over there. Thank you for your kind help, Alex

Thank you, your quick reassurance is much appreciated!

I have not bought the MU-2 yet however I intended to do it within days. I am just reading that it does not have a working ADF yet? Is it still possible to track NDBs somehow or there is no way until the update to do NDB approaches. Whata letdown that would be... Thanks for shedding some light on this, Alex