Ben Russell

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=51148&view=findpost&p=568203

...Car. But if you can't use it in 2D on an otherwise "very good surface, straight and level road", what hope can you have of using it in 3D when it matters most. Using muscle memories and haptic perception is infinitely safer than stuffing around with a glarey touch screen you can barely read. Can you imagine pulling over every time you want to adjust your car stereo volume if the road isn't entirely clear of other traffic? Very tedious. Don't get me wrong, I love the ipad for quick acces to the net... When im out and about i only get the laptop out when ive settled in a nice spot to work, but the ipad is used frequently. Most people designing apps don't do a very good job of human factors and GUI design for actual in motion use. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that everything I've tried so far is crap at it. The "premium app" shown in the video above has horribly small mode buttons on the bottom of the screen and they appear, at a glace, to have 0 margins between them. A slight jolt and you're off in the wrong mode... The slightest of glare and you CANT EVEN READ the god damn mode labels, on the garmin you just press a hard button in a familiar location, probably without a look, just a confirming glance. Garmin has deep insight into human factors in the cockpit, everything from colors to layout, to haptics is in the prices you pay. The best GPS app I have here has decent map colors, even night mode rendering, but the mode buttons are black with white text, on black, and only about 32x50 px in size. You cannot find the button in sunlit conditions. It's a joke. And then, with the ipad in landscape orientation, if you press "search", you get the search gui in portrait orientation.... which is conveniently 90 degrees rotated from where the device is, so you cant do that either. iOS apps are seriously inadequate in every way for serious use at this stuff. Many many hours logged, I bought the ipad specifically for prototyping and human factors work and research for exactly this purpose, I was first to do a moving terrain map in X-Plane after-all. I can say without any reservation that a real GPS with actual buttons, and dedicated nav data and apps is FAR superior to anything I've tried on the ipad yet. I find your under appreciation of the weather data value seriously disturbing. Stay out of the clouds (and darkness...) and this is all you need:

I had my ipad crash on me once... I turned it on, got the unlock PIN number-pad, decided I was in the wrong spot to be entering a password (shoulder surfers) and turned it off again. Pretty normal use case, you'd think.... I had to "multi hard button" reset the device. When you can't pull over to the shoulder of the road it's worth paying for certified equipment, that is, after all, why it costs so much. There's also a bunch of use-case issues with iPad software, I have my ipad mounted to my car dash and can categorically state that ALL the GPS software utterly sucks to use with any sort of mild "turbulence". Then there's the fact that its basically unreadable in bright sunlight, and the speaker is useless in anything as loud as a town street.

Ran into a nice quirk of Dynamic Library programming today. I had Gizmo's project set to automatically output to a file called "mac.xpl" I had a second plugin project, also set to automatically output to a file called "mac.xpl" These filenames were setup using Xcodes "product name" fields in the build config. When X-Plane would load the 2nd plugin project, the Operating System would re-load Gizmo! Reason: The dylib is stamped with an internal name... the OS reads it, and for some insane reason, thinks they're the same binary. (Gizmo is about 4.5 meg, the 2nd project file was only 54kb...) Conclusion: Renaming your file from "Gizmo_mac.xpl" -> "mac.xpl" and THEN moving it into the X-Plane folders is a LOT safer and plays better with other dylibs. File under "G" for Glad I never have to think about this cause I use Gizmo scripting instead.

Given the veritable tomes of text to rewrite in ones own words I can certainly understand managements decision to go with a quick hasty, who the hell cares anyway, google translation, copy and paste, yah that'll do...

The fail system is strong in this one.

...and let me guess, everything still has .OBJ as the file extension? :-\

95% of the technology they need to make it real is already in peoples homes. I would expect a Kinect driven x-box dashboard to fill in the missing 5% sometime in the coming year. After playing XBox Live for months I can say that they're not far wrong with their average user assessment. The amount of money people spend on accessories is quite scary. People really do care what kind of armour-visor and shoulder-pads they have on their helment when playing Halo Reach. The one thing that they didn't profile in the video is the people who have so little self-esteem that they continually create new, blank, "0 skill" accounts so that they can rank-up as fast as possible within the games scores because they've already been playing said game for months. The bell-curves and leader boards are full of cheats.

Steven King eat your heart out.

transformed_x,transformed_y,transformed_z = matrix.transform3D( x,y,z, p,r,h ) This new API has been added to Gizmo tonight, it will be available in the next version of Gizmo. ( > 11.3.15 )

In theory, the developers need not know you're using Mono. In practice, customers will get a hold of it and wreak havoc on unsupported configs. ...I'd still give ".NET App XYZ" a shot under Mono, it may just fire up and run 99.9% perfectly. I wouldn't expect any official support though.

Many .NET applications can be run on Mac/Linux with 0 porting. http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page It's been about 3 years since I played with it but it was excellent even back then.

This user is quite clearly trolling. UH-60: Please address your "bug" to http://forums.x-plane.com Everyone else: As he is obviously too good for any of our answers, advice, checklists or questions, please let this thread die of starvation.

Please post here in future: http://forums.x-plane.com

Cirrus Jet - works-for-me checklist. 9.67 Cold and dark start: 1. Down arrow key to see entire 2D panel. 2. Battery On 3. Avionics On 4. Generator On 5. Click-and-hold the 3-position "ignition switch" located on the top-left of the dashboard above the avidyne speed ladder for one-second. Outcome: Click-and-holding the switch in step 5 sets the ignition mode to "START" - this fires up the turbine and the N1 and Fuel Flow gauges move accordingly. 6. Breaks off 7. Throttle up The jet is now flyable.

about time! "We must engage with the local populous to win this war from the ground up." (unless they're currently being slaughtered by unchallenged air power...) Let's hope we have a swift and decisive shift of power to those that deserve it, the Libyan people.

Maybe this will get it in your head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTFBy6ZDb-o

Having fuel is different to setting fuel mixture levers if applicable. Write up a checklist of operations that you do, that used to work, and now does not. You may not be an idiot but you assume FAR too much. Assume this: We know NOTHING. You need to explain every single step you perform to cold-start. Leave nothing out. Making us play 40 questions to get you to your solution is not fair on us, it's a pathetic childish "serve me now" attitude. Others may have tolerance for it, I have lived with your generations pathetic helpless attitude far more than I would like and I'm hear to pour a bucket of icey brine on your head.

Really? Then why not fucking tell us that to begin with? Checklist your start up procedure, every step, or go away and fix it yourself. Your attitude is pathetic.

Fuel helps.

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Apparently it's also very sluggish to respond to command (too many computers), causes massive wake disturbance, requires very specific planning of taxi way usage, and generally makes operating the entire airfield and all the other traffic around it utter hell. Yeah, real great airframe that. Might be safer for the few extra people that are on it, but impacts the safety and stress levels of the people and pilots flying everything else. Reminds me of this saying: "Never use big words where diminutive ones will suffice."

A380: Hated by ATC and airports everywhere.