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X-plane: The voyage of discovery begins........
EHM-1997 Alexander:
Link should be fixed now.
EHM-2381 Ted:
--- Quote from: EHM-2387 Eric-Jan on March 08, 2011, 02:36:56 pm ---I think he means the download link from the fleet page; it redirects to the forum with a message "Album not found" ...
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Bingo :D
Apologies for not being more clear. I wrote that on a break from trying to mow my lawn (soaked grass still but SO insisted lol) and was in a hurry. I will DL the Twin Otter and see how it flies. I did finally find a default included aircraft that let me mess around properly (I think the Archer?) and the sim actually looks really nice aside from the desolate and depressing airfields but I plan to fix that quickly with some freeware so at least Heathrow looks normal.
The other hard bit is getting used to the controls and the mouse selections. I clicked on a NAV radio and scrolled the mouse and immediately the plane throttled up and up and up until I twigged that default mouse scroll wheel is the throttle derp derp doh :P.
I'll have to screenshot my rendering settings for you and see if there are any further adjustments to make. Things look pretty smooth and really sharp; however, I wonder if I can increase the speed of panning L/R/U/D with the hat switch and how to zoom in on instruments would be useful too.
I'm also unsure about the weather. I ticked the boxes requesting realistic download of weather and assume thats it and the sim just works off that.
Cheers
Ted
EHM-2381 Ted:
A couple more DH-6 related questions:
1-I installed the aircraft and the EHM livery with no problem and did a couple of circuits around CYCG for giggles. The airplane seems to respond well and doing performance touch and go's seems spot on. It is a bit tricky though as there appears to be no radar altimeter that I can see?
2-How on earth does one stick in a flight plan? I see the rather large looking EFIS display on the right side of the cockpit but see no buttons or menu to allow me to program in waypoints.
3-Is there an autopilot somewhere? Its not a big deal on a short hop but some of the legs are in excess of two hours and thats a long time to hold the stick :D
EHM-1997 Alexander:
1. No radio altimeter installed in that aircraft as far as I know (see point 3)
2. I personally use FSCommander + moving map. However: http://wiki.x-plane.com/Chapter_6:_Navigation,_Autopilots,_and_Flying_on_Instruments see 2.2.3 Flying a flight plan.
3. I don't think there's an autopilot on that aircraft panel. However you can add one to it http://wiki.x-plane.com/Creating_a_Panel_in_Plane_Maker
Default x-plane functions aren't disabled, so if you assign the autopilot buttons to hardware controls or use something like the VRInsight MCP, then you can operate the autopilot that way.
May be useful to add an autopilot to the panel - I know others on the MT did when flying it the DHC-6 on x-plane.
EHM-2381 Ted:
I am trying to import that panel into plane maker as we speak as I know exactly what it needs. This will be a fun learning curve lol.
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