I figure if I've got a zillion buttons on my stick/throttle hardware,
I might as well put them to good use.
1) The (D) button on the throttle is the "shift" button. (*)
That's literally true. Indeed it's a pun; see next two items.
2) When the shift button is not pressed, he lower "hat" on the stick will:
-- pan the view angle left/right, and
-- tilt the view angle up/down.
3) When the shift button is pressed, the lower "hat" on the yoke will:
-- shift the view point left/right,(*) and
-- shift the view point up/down.(*)
I thought long and hard about how to do the bindings for this.
I'm happy with using the (D) button as a shift button; it feels
natural to me.
Shifting the PoV is not something you need very often, but it does
come in handy in a couple of specific situations:
-- In some aircraft, there is a whole row of switches hidden
behind the yoke where you can't see it unless you crane you
neck to a new view point.
-- For landing, it helps to move your head to the left (assuming
you're sitting in the left seat) so you can peer around the
cowling.
4) The (B) button on the throttle will "zoom out" the view.
5) The (C) button on the throttle instantly resets the view angles
(tilt/pan/zoom) and also(*) resets the view point (X/Y/Z) back to
their canonical values. This feature gets used quite often.
Features marked (*) are new since yesterday.
All of this is implemented here:
http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/X52.xml.htm
http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/X52.xml
along with a bunch of more prosaic features: trim, brakes, stopwatch,
et cetera.
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