Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

[Orinks]

Ah okay, fare enough.

So while Ideal Flight voice can read the various dials for heading, speed hold, etc, when you're getting vectors via ATC it's not very ideal or quick to press the corresponding key for the hold in question and press equals or dash to try and quickly change it to whatever they want.

So we'd need a way to change them quickly, ideally by typing it in.

While we have an addon being developed to do these sorts of things, we don't have a hotkey to enter the stuff quickly and have to alt-tab over to it.

Can we have a way to control mach speed on descent? Tramp does it automatically like an FMC would, and is the closest to an FMC we have. I'd love it if IF had an option to control airspeed automatically though. On climb/cruise I'm fine with just entering the values, but on descent I don't know how best to decrease the mach speed gradually to maintain optimal speed in a jet.

Also for tuning ILS, can we either select a runway to tune via the flight assist dialogue, or enter a nav1 manually? Perhaps if flying using IF approach waypoints if the runway has an ILS IF can tune it automatically.

Just some thoughts.

[Orinks]

Okay, I realize a bit of what I was asking for above was a bit too much in regard to managing airspeed automatically. I just want the experience of flying controlled but automatic as an FMC does, but we don't have an accessible FMC. Oh well...

I still do want the ability to enter any AP value in quickly though with a press of a hotkey if possible. Also, often Vatsim controllers will ask us to fly direct to a specific waypoint before resuming the plan. Could you make a function to fly direct to a specific waypoint or to put it in the GPS?

Thanks.

[Steve Waite]

I will be looking at all that sort of thing, will do what I can.

[Steve Waite]

In the FSX version IF10SE>augmented the voice sets hotkeys were not mapped, now fixed.

[Steve Waite]

6/March/2020:

Latest IF versions include screen reader support and in-sim voice callouts by codelegend.com

Preview 09:

Ideal Flight Professional P3D v4
Ideal Flight 10 Professional P3D v3
Ideal Flight 10 Special Edition
Ideal Flight 10 Original

New: Added Flight Assistant window enabled choice of runway or parking at any time. Get clearance and taxi instructions, move to runway. land, get parking instruction, move to parking. Other functions to follow.

New Hotkey repeats current kneeboard page so there's no need to go around the pages. Fixed the flaptype=2.0 error. Fixed the disabled runway choie in Flight Gen page.

[ke7zum]

When teleporting to a runway or gate the first time, it works correctly, but let's say you are given the wrong runway by ATC etc. If you go to warp again, there is nothing there. I think 2 other VIs have experienced this bug as well. Using ideal flight preview 9.

[jessiepp]

i am having the same issue with the nothing in the runways combo box in the assist window. like @ke7zum and @orinks.

[Orinks]

My thoughts on preview 9:

- Warping to runways/gates works on departure.

- If you warp to the wrong runway via the dialogue, going back into the flight assistants page results in 0 runways or gates appearing, which doesn't allow you to warp to the correct one.

- The buttons for okay and cancel are mislabled with "voice settings".

HTH.

[TylerK93]

Also, warping to gates works on arrival.

[Steve Waite]

Thanks guys, I'm not able to test fully at each stage and so I am relying on your feedback, which is working pretty good. Those issues will be resolved in the next update. Please keep adding your thoughts.

I'll be incorporating engine management next. That involves expanding the callouts depending on aircraft engine types.