Nosig

Switching nav sources isn't really the problem. And right in the middle of an ILS you don't want to switch nav sources to check the DME. If only there was a way to see the NAV2 distance somewhere, that would already make it usable. Thanks for your help so far, keep up the great work.

Installed the CRJ on my imac yesterday, absolutely loving it. Finally a jet that comes into the aftermarket league like on MFS. This will certainly change the x-plane landscape. I have a question, since I immediately started using it to train a Lufthansa grading (on a CRJ900 sim) my girlfriend and another friend have in about two months (if passed to start on the CRJ in Munich). We want to practice standard approaches on some German airports, Hamburg and Stuttgart mainly. But we have no way to hold the DME (there is a button on the comm/nav panel, but it's not active) nor can we find an indication of the DME of any beacon set in NAV2 (except when selected active). And because we cannot indicate a second DME, there's no way to check altitude versus distance on the ILS nor can we do a missed approach procedure which requires another DME (except when constantly switching beacons). Both Hamburg and Stuttgart use separate DME stations (the ILS's don't have their own DME), without seeing a distance from NAV2 or without the ability to hold DME it is rather complex (and unlike the grading) to set up and do the approaches there. Are we missing something? Is there a way to get the NAV2 DME distance visible? Right now the only DME we see is the one of the selected active NAV, which the ILS there doesn't have. Another minor detail, there doesn't seem to be an automatic ident of a beacon if it does't have DME (such as LUB VOR or the ILS's at HAM). But that's solved by just listening out the morse code. I hope someone can help with the second DME indication, it would be greatly appreciated.

Well, the site as a whole could certainly need some sort of branding, a frontpage or some sort of logo / picture use (as an example, check out the Dutch pilot forum I use daily and click on each subforum to see the changing photo theme to get inspiration: http://www.airwork.nl/bulletinboard/ ). I would rather call the current design boring (the color setting a bit seventies), more than ugly. But where on earth do you see light purple? If you know photoshop, you should know how to calibrate or fix your monitor color settings. The current color settings reminded me of this default colored F28: (btw, preview of my post doesn't seem to work (firefox, snow leopard))

I thought that was about the only thing that didn't work on a mac, the combination of TrackIR and X-plane? I've been trying to search for an answer, but got the impression that it won't work. Can you confirm that TrackIR DOES work on OSX (snow leopard) with X-plane 9? Back on topic: I got a Saitek Cyborg X joystick, which I can really recommend. Fully customizable regarding handsize and shape, foldable and with dual throttle for a very good price. Works out of the box, no driver install needed, on my macbook (and yes, I've owned all windows versions on desktops (and MS DOS) and laptop, love Ubuntu and even ran MS Flightsim 1.3 on my Commodore 64 decades ago). I love certain aspects of X-plane, think it has a lot of potential, but there's still lots of stuff not correct, missing and sometimes plainly annoying. But I'll keep the faith, I'm sure the ending of the MS FS team as well as the growing mac userbase (probably because it has the ability now to also run windows, even though I don't) will trigger lots of people to move to x-plane which will give it the community it needs to mature.