New to x-plane FlightSimCommander like for X-plane

[wigerup]

Hello, I am just in my wy to go over from P3D to x-plane. Just tired of waiting for new updates as soon an update for P3D rolls out.

Want to give X-plane a chance.

My first question is if there are something like FlightSimCommander for X-plane???. I have been using FSC for at least 10 years now.

I have been looking at some videos for x-plane and one question is that it seems a little tricky to move the knobs. Do you have to throw the mouse out of the screen when you change i.e speed or heading????.

Regards

Bjorn

[DominicS]

Hi Bjorn,

 

Glad you're trying out X-Plane. It's a great sim which really satisfies once you've set it up to your liking.

 

You know, I don't actually use FS Commander, but I do know there are X-Plane users who use it with XPUIPC.

 

http://www.tosi-online.de/XPUIPC/Home.html

 

To give you you an idea of how it's used have a look at this video:

 

 

Hope this helps Bjorn.

 

Cheers

 

Dominic

 

PS...Regarding knobs; it depends on the aircraft. Some aircraft use plugins which makes manipulating dials etc, a lot easier than the default method.

[RatRace]

I'm not familiar with FlightSimCommander, but here are some (other) suggestions:

 

Plan-G free- or donationware VFR flight planner http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/

EFASS free- and payware IFR flight planner http://froom.de/efass/

 

I can't vouch for either of them. Many X-Plane users use the real but expensive stuff, like SkyDemon http://www.skydemon.aero/

 

As for your second question, I believe the knobs in some planes are sometimes poorly scaled, but that's a problem of the designer(s), not of X-Plane.

[RatRace]

You know, I don't actually use FS Commander, but I do know there are X-Plane users who use it with XPUIPC.

 

Dominic, I don't think that FS Commander can read the X-Plane 10 Nav Database, even with XPUIPC.

 

But I have been known to be wrong before :)

[wigerup]

Thanks for the replies. I go and try Plan G and EFASS. Skydemon is too expensive.

Best Regards

Bjorn

[n55]

I use FSC with X-Plane. Unless you're looking for some of the little out of the way airports that FSX has that aren't in X-Plane, all the major airports are there and 99% of the data is the same. I use Plan-G for all my VFR flying because it shows terrain elevations, but for all my IFR commercial flying I use FSC. Some waypoints are not found in X-Plane so you can't always load them into the X-Plane GPS/FMC, but FSC does export in .fms format. Also, if you use the Heading from the little on-screen window from FSC, it will use FSX waypoints by taking over the Heading on the X-Plane autopilot and fly them as FSX waypoints. I usually fly with actual charts for SID/STARs but the built-in info in FSC works very well if I'm lazy.

[wigerup]

I use FSC with X-Plane. Unless you're looking for some of the little out of the way airports that FSX has that aren't in X-Plane, all the major airports are there and 99% of the data is the same. I use Plan-G for all my VFR flying because it shows terrain elevations, but for all my IFR commercial flying I use FSC. Some waypoints are not found in X-Plane so you can't always load them into the X-Plane GPS/FMC, but FSC does export in .fms format. Also, if you use the Heading from the little on-screen window from FSC, it will use FSX waypoints by taking over the Heading on the X-Plane autopilot and fly them as FSX waypoints. I usually fly with actual charts for SID/STARs but the built-in info in FSC works very well if I'm lazy.

 

FSC works like a charm for me, thanks for your support.!!!

Regards

Bjorn Wigerup