> Often airports are in or
> near very scenery-intensive areas and reducing visibility can help a lot
> in making the sim run usably for take-off, whereas once you're up and
> away it's nice to be able to open the view back up again for
> cross-country flying.
This is applying a sledgehamm
AJ wrote:
>
> On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:38:45 +
> James Turner wrote:
> > Aha, and instantly we get a usability discussion:
>
> > Right, you need the keys because you're working around a simulator bug
> (frame-rate drops badly) using manual interaction. The correct fix isn't
to
> make the worka
Just my 2 cents here.
The primary reason I use the FoV/x binding is to see, read, and be able
to use everything (or as much as I can) in my cockpit. Personally, I
would rather scroll up/down, but that seems to have limits, as I can't
zoom in as far as I want to by scrolling, but can using the k
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:38:45 +
James Turner wrote:
> Aha, and instantly we get a usability discussion:
> Right, you need the keys because you're working around a simulator bug
> (frame-rate drops badly) using manual interaction. The correct fix isn't to
> make the workaround-UI easier, it's
On Monday 04 March 2013 15:38:45 James Turner wrote:
> You're the third person to say the same thing. But again, you don't actually
> want to change the FoV at all. What you're doing (and everyone else) is
> using this feature to look around 3D cockpits, right? In other word, our
> cockpit navigat
On 4 Mar 2013, at 14:54, AJ MacLeod wrote:
Aha, and instantly we get a usability discussion:
> Just sticking in my 2p worth... I would say I use z/Z almost every flight.
> It can be useful for "cheating", as Thorsten said, but more usually as a
> means of adjusting performance. Often airpo
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:24:29 +
James Turner wrote:
> What I'd like to see is the entire 'Ctrl' (Command on Mac) space reserved for
> GUI functions, like a normal application - Ctrl-Q for quit, Ctrl-M for map
> dialog, Ctrl-A for autopilot dialog, Ctrl-R for replay dialog (or radios
> dialog
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:24:29 +
James Turner wrote:
> My *personal* feeling is that unless it's something the > 50% of users use
> *each flight*, it shouldn't be a keybinding. So flaps, trim, CDI/HSI heading,
> fine, but things to change view distance or FoV seem unnecessary to me.
Just stic
The discussion reminded me of a blog post I once read:
http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?11603-Is-The-Default-Keyboard-Layout-Still-Relevant
Might be worth reading, but also might be worth forgetting afterwards.
Sometimes it's good to read someone else’s experience though.
Erik
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On 4 Mar 2013, at 07:43, Vic Marriott wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Personally, I use 'ctrl' a lot when making my own shortcuts (outside FG). I'm
> sure I can't be the only Mac user to do this. An example: If you were to
> allocate 'ctrl+s' to a common FG function, using 'ctrl+s' sends my Mac to
>
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