Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

[Steve Waite]

On a side note, I wish that when you reset the flightplan with the : key, IF could basically reset itself as well so you don't have to exit the flight and hit fly again and do that.

You can sort of already do this. Simply go to the sim menu, then in the main sim, click "restart flight monitor." it will then do just that. Not exactly a key, but it works. to reset the sim simply hit control semi from within the sim itself.

There is also the menu option "Restart Flight" which saves going back to Ideal Flight to start a flight. "Restart Monitor" menu item ignores the past movements of the aircraft already recorded.

to add to the subject of the mouse, since most all of us do not use one, why that change in the first place? would it not be feezable instead to put something somewhere in settings to deal with the balance of the audio?

When using a mouse to press on buttons in the interface, Ideal Flight takes that mouse position to apportion left-right location from the desktop location of the mouse. When running the simulation those sounds are center field.

The in-sim sounds from the position and orientation and flight following should still be left-right-center.

the sounds are for me in mono, they are coming from the center of my sound field. Also I forgot to add I use virtual desktops so IF is on desktop 1 whilest the sim is on desktop 3. Control shift f is not bringing the window into focus. Perhaps because I'm on a virtual desktop. Just my theory for now.

Yes, that would be it. Ideal Flight will be surfacing on the virtual machine it is running on, it can't surface the virtual machine as well.

[Steve Waite]

IF is on desktop 1 whilest the sim is on desktop 3. Control shift f is not bringing the window into focus.

...why not run Ideal Flight on the same desktop as the simulator? Ideal Flight will only surface over program windows running in the same virtual desktop (or virtual machine).

[Steve Waite]

...when a program takes focus on a virtual desktop, it is the responsibility of the desktop manager to surface the desktop. Perhaps it might be an idea to check through the options for the desktop control app for surfacing a desktop with the most recent refocused window.

[Orinks]

How goes the next preview update?

[Steve Waite]

I am adding some export file types and progressing the taxi operations. Hopefully I can run the aircraft to and from the runway, we shall see. It will be a little while yet before the next update.

Are there any requests?

[Steve Waite]

I have improved the sidewind holding during take off throttle control to keep the aircraft on the runway center line by incorporating ailerons with rudder. I shall include the climb assist with elevator control as well. Assist functions are in the early stages. The current preview build you have available at the moment will not hold the runway center very well.

[Orinks]

My only request for taxi thus far is the ability to select the runway we want to taxi to, not just the one that Ideal Flight thinks you should depart from.
I'll be interested to see what Vatsim controllers think of it when I test it at small airports at least to begin with.
Either way I can't wait for this. Popular ATC addon Pilot2ATC won't work properly unless you taxi to the runway. I tried warping with IF yesterday and it told me to "backtrack and then line up and wait."

[Steve Waite]

My only request for taxi thus far is the ability to select the runway we want to taxi to, not just the one that Ideal Flight thinks you should depart from.
I'll be interested to see what Vatsim controllers think of it when I test it at small airports at least to begin with.
Either way I can't wait for this. Popular ATC addon Pilot2ATC won't work properly unless you taxi to the runway. I tried warping with IF yesterday and it told me to "backtrack and then line up and wait."

The plan is that the Assist form will be the same with selecting a runway or parking, an option will be to choose between taxi or warp.

Can you determine the runway in use before building the flight in I F?

The flight can be rebuilt using the Edit button on the Flight Generator page and runways selected there. Remember with using the departure and arrival settings in I F it determines the runways from primarily the winds. You can set weather off and the winds section is then only used to determine the most likely runways.

[Steve Waite]

Ideal Flight supports VATSIM page and vPilot very nicely. VATSIM page is in the Internet Locations menu and vPilot support is included in the Exports section. These sophisticated functions preload your VATSIM page or vPilot settings to save time.

Since the ETA and Briefing use the runway directions derived from the winds, that information might not be aligned when we get in the aircraft and receive our instructions to taxi. Feedback in the past suggested it was not an issue to be worried about because we never really know the exact circumstances of departure and arrival until we are there.

[Steve Waite]

...although for our arrival, we might have a certain approach set up in the plan, the runway may have changed when we get there.

With FMS and even with the stock GPS, we can load up the approach in those instruments and continue from there. That's difficult with lack of sight. So with the Assist functions, we can select an approach to any runway and that will insert a new plan with the Computed Approach waypoints as we get from the Arrival control in the I F Mission Page. The Assist functions then allow us to use the AP to follow the plan as usual with GPS drives NAV.