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  1. I should have added that the Logitech pedals are not as easy to use when flying helicopters as the VKB (not expensive) or the TM Pendular (expensive). Because you have to hold constant pedal in helicopters. (But VKB does not have toebrakes). With VKB and Pendular you just keep downward force on one foot to hold a constant pedal input. Which is a lot more comfortable than holding one foot pushing forward.
  2. I have used the CH pedals. I would get this instead (the logitech pedals). They have a tension adjustment knob in the center and I think most people like it for a low priced rudder set. Ratings by users very high on amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Pro-Flight-Rudder-Pedals/dp/B07R21FJD8/
  3. Don't believe the advice you need new hardware. If it was running great before this last trivial update, then it should still run at the same performance. Make sure your GamerTag is still the same. If you update under a different GT (that is to say with a different microsoft login user and password), then the update will hose the setup royally. You can see your user icon up in the top right window when MSFS starts up along with the GamerTag. Something went haywire at the same time or near the same time as the tiny little update, and it is not your hardware that is the problem.
  4. Outside of a yoke or stick and rudder, the most useful control is a trim wheel. In real or sim life the pilot will be using it constantly every flight. I use it on the final flare in the last 10 seconds of flight too because I use a stick instead of a yoke, leaving the other hand free. So right hand on stick left hand on trim wheel for pretty much the whole approach. And bless Airbus for the modern sidestick.
  5. See, my 4 button on my flightstick is my shift key (its a so called pinkie flipper button). And my four way hat is buttons...11 ..............................................14.....12 ...................................................13 So this one hat plus the one shift button does all 12 of these commands which are dirt simple to remember. [ATTACH=CONFIG]224174[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]224175[/ATTACH]
  6. You probably have a hat for moving the view around in cockpit view (up down left right and 'shift' up for IN and 'shift' down for Out. What is neat is the the drone view commands only work when you are in drone view (a.k.a. showcase view on the overhead menu). So you can put all the drone's flying MOVEMENTS on the same hat as the cockpit eyepoint view directions. In other words your hat goes up down left right and your eyepoint view moves those directions in cockpit view. The very same hat can go up down left right and your drone's flying movements move in those directions in drone view. One 4 way hat does 8 commands automatically. The drone and cockpit eyepoint movement commands are translate right translate left, increase height, and decrease height. or something like that. For move view IN and OUT , just use a shift key and the same up and down hat movements. The 'shift' key is just two keys pressed at once. For instance Control Spacebar is a shifted command with the Control key being the 'shift' key on a keyboard and the spacebar is the command key. You can have a 'shift' key on a flight stick too. Just make one of the buttons on the stick your special dedicated 'shift' key. Then for instance if that shift key is button 1, then button 1 and hat up at the same time can send a move IN command, whereas a hat up by itself sends a move UP command instead of IN. So that one four way hat plus the dedicated shift button can easily do 12 commands: up, down, right, left, in, out for eye movement in cockpit. And fly up, down, right, left, in, out in drone (showcase) view. Nothing hard to remember move hat up is UP and shift move hat up is IN and so forth.
  7. To see the mouse pointer, simply change full screen to windowed mode in the options. Bet this works :)
  8. I own Farm strips and they all show up properly in MSFS. Each goes into it's own folder, so there will be (I think) 50 folders in Community becasue Farm Strips V1 has 50 airports. And of course 50 charts for them in the one .pdf file. In my community there are folders allensmore, Arclid, ashleysfield, and 47 (I think) more. Take them out of your community folder and start a flight at allensmore, then close MSFS and do it with the folders back in community. It should look different. A windsock, more buildings, 3 planes, 2 people and so forth that were not there before. This is not detailed scenery, just nice little additions and tidbits. By the way I really love the Farm Strips v.1 add-on !
  9. Of course the download version is available on Steam. It takes a good internet service to run MSFS online, such as at Steam. Steam is a great place in my opinion to buy MSFS. I would use Paypal instead of a credit card on Steam.
  10. There is a place in Content Manager that tells you all that you own but did not download. You can click on download all or something like that. You may want to pass on the Japan Update and not get that because it is huge. Download everything else that you already own. Basically it is stuff you already have installed but that has been updated so the version you have is out of date (such as a plane that now comes in a later version).
  11. The 9 pages in this article will show you what different graphic cards will do. They are all using the same cpu processor however. Notice where they talk about RAM: it made no difference whatsoever if 16 or 32 GB system RAM. https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/microsoft-flight-simulator-(2020)-pc-graphics-performance-benchmark-review.html But I see you already purchased, still an interesting article.
  12. I reinstalled CFS3 first time in years today. It all works fine, except the icon for the mouse jumps around about an inch up/down/left/right constantly. This makes it hard to change the settings because it takes 10 seconds to tick or untick any box in the Settings options. The mouse is not jittery in any other flightsimulator or program except CFS3. Thanks for any suggetions you might have :)
  13. I today reinstalled CFS3, and Control-A also turns autotrim ON or OFF in CFS3 too.
  14. woff ue is an updated version of CFS3. In that sim autotrim can be turned ON or OFF by a single keystroke. If autotrim is ON then the original poster's symptoms will occur, trim will not hold. Turn the autotrim off (see the keychart) is the cure. in WOFF UE that key is Control-A which toggles autotrim on and off.
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