Legoman52

I have been using MSFS 2020 and although the scenery is spectacular nothing else is good and whatever else works it doesn't work very well.I am so disappointed that I tried the Xplane 11 demo and I thought it worked very well and the planes actually fly like they are supposed to.

 

11.5 is the latest, lots of fun now with Vulcan, sharper images, lots of add-ons available. Aircraft fly like they are suppose to, not as forgiving as MSFS. I am having lots of fun with it.

Hi all,

I have been flying FSX. I recently purchased X-Plane.

I would have very likely started with X-Plane but my system couldn't deliver what X-Plane needed at the time.

Upgraded machinery and I'm just starting to poke around with X-plane now.

 

I was going through the setup for buttons. I want a button on my flight controls to enable/disable the autopilot.

Wow. There are a lot of sophisticated actions in the autopilot section. I was amazed.

But, I could not find the action for enable/disable.

Nothing as simple as enable/disable, on/off, or engage/disengage or even Arm/CMD - to name a few. -Nope-

 

I just want to be able to click the A/P off- from my yoke, when I'm 100 feet off the deck.

 

I wonder if anyone else has been down this trail? What am I missing?

TIA,

--john

 

The easiest way I found was set a "quick look" to the auto pilot controls, (Ctrl + 1-9 numpad). Set your heading and altitude before take off, once 1000 AG toggle the heading and auto pilot automatically come on (Most Planes) and activates altitude as long as you have a steady VS, you can set that before take off as well. but you need to steady the plane before auto will take effect.

 

On landing, if you're not doing ILS approach, just toggle the numpad number you set up for quick look, and turn off auto pilot, or like mentioned earlier, mouse click the red button on the yoke, (not all air crafts). It's not hard, once you get use to it.

 

I think you can assign a "Heading button on your yoke for take off's".

Sorry to bother . Found the problem, somehow I had the yoke on the wrong assignment, I feel like a jerk, knee jerking the way I did. Carry on.

I Re-booted, changed airports and aircraft. Don't have rudder pedals, so that's not it. Just lost all steering. I can see the ailerons are working but not the rudder, looked everywhere for these setting.

Upgraded to 11.5, and enabled Vulcan, but I flown since then. I'm lost. If I reinstall the 11.41 where do I find the 11.5 update file?

Tried Barron and Cessna 172, can't steer on the taxi or anywhere on airport. Just goes straight.

Went through calibration and everything checks out. Saitek pro.

Thanks Steve, didn't think so. I am pretty sure sometime in the future, MS will offer the offline version. DVD for the US. Why pass up on making more money.

Has anybody tried to download to a flash and install on home PC. My internet is capped and real slow. I guess us folk in the boonies are screwed till the US DVD's are available.

Hi what you need to go is make and Iso file of the play disk and then mount it and then you dont need a disk inserted to play the sim hope this helps people with a physical copy,i use UltraISO quiet easy to use .

regards

Andrew

 

Great idea. Where did you place your ISO file so the it can be accessed? I fly X-Plane 11 also, disk needs to remain in the cd, don't really have a problem with that, but I will make an ISO of that also.

Can you tell me a little more about the disc install, Do I still need internet connection, and can I fly off-line? I have no problem loading 300GB of cache. I just don't want to be connected all the time, I am rural area and speeds and max data would slow me down.

IMO/IME there are a number of methods to install scenery and how you do it will depend mostly on what type of scenery you are adding.

 

In this particular case, where you adding new global textures there are two methods that will work.

 

Method 1 - this is basically what you have done already - overwriting the original default files. Ideally, if you use this method you should backup the original files so that you can restore them if the new scenery files cause an issue or are not to your liking. Failure to backup the files make it harder to return FSX back to its original state if necessary - your only options without backup files is to either attempt a repair, which is likely to fail and/or may make other changes that damage/destroy any other addons that you have, or to do a full un-install and then re-install.

 

Method 2- Instead of physically replacing the default files create a new holding folder for the new scenery. This folder can be be located within FSX or outside of FSX. Create a Scenery subfolder and a Texture subfolder within the new folder and then place the appropriate files into the appropriate subfolder (i.e files with a .bgl extension into the scenery folder and .bmp, .dds, .agn etc) into the Texture folder). Activate the new folder within FSX as normal. I would also move it down the Priority Listing so that it sits ABOVE the default FSX scenery entries but BELOW any other addon scenery you may have..

 

Thanks Longbreak, That makes it easier to understand.

It would be helpful if you were more specific. Based on your description I cannot figure out what files you are trying to install.

 

Thanks Nel for the re-name, Was my first post, baby steps.

Yea, don't plan to do that. I this instance, I see files that are an upgrade the the existing file structure, and just trying to keep up with this very old program. Don't plan on loading anything that is not in my flight area. Any enhancements to FSX is a good thing. Like Tweaking the FSX.cfg.

 

I figured I got to keep this going till 2020 is available and the bugs worked out, which might take another year or so.

Sorry Nels, I was referring to the files, after unzipping, USA Texture files are for the most part the same as what FSX has installed. Named the same, ie, Microsoft Flight simulator X /Scenery/World/Texture/004a2fa1, this is a file that is also on one of the unzipped "USA Ground Textures" any many more. Is it normal when upgrading some scenery texture that I overwrite the same file, as the computer asks, when installing the unzipped files. I am not familiar with how some of you write scenery files. And there lots to download, I pick the ones that are in my area of flying, Is it the norm that a file has been re-coded and named the same, or is the norm that a new file is created.

 

I know Airplane files are different, Panels have some of the same.

It would be helpful if you were more specific. Based on your description I cannot figure out what files you are trying to install.

 

File Library, Hot Files, FSX, USA Scenery Textures, by Adam Mills.

It would be helpful if you were more specific. Based on your description I cannot figure out what files you are trying to install.

 

I am starting over with a new computer Rysen 3600 16 gig GTX 950. Don't want to screw this up. I see a lot of files, in general, that are scenery files to download, with file names and extensions already exists in the, my, FSX directory. Sp1 and SP2 are installed. That was just an example. How can you tell if a file is newer than the file you already have? If I download scenery files to FSX, do I overwrite the ones that are there?

It would be helpful if you were more specific. Based on your description I cannot figure out what files you are trying to install.

 

I was referring to the File Library, Must Have Files, USA Scenery parts 1 - 8.

I had the same problem with win 10, to correct this I reinstalled the C:\FSX. Then go to controls in the App Data section and delete the XLM file, My problem was it created 2 files, XLM and XLMX. I deleted both, ran FSX set a few control setting and started free flight, flew for a few minutes and exited the program. Double check your control file again in the App Data/ Roaming. It fixed it for me, as FSX auto saves when exiting program, Don't use the save in the settings section af FSX.

Plan G is a great freeware program, I save all my Flight plans to a folder and bingo, pull them up in FSX and start flying. It also has the ability to track you flight.

Looking to download and install the 8 part USA scenery. I noticed most of the file names are the same and of the same size. Do I write over the files? Yes, I will save a back up to another location. Also noticed the Europe files ( 8 parts ) also have file names that are the same.