Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

[ke7zum]

... This worked in preview 26 flawlessly btw...

Actually, there was no change to fuel or payload coded between 26 and 27, so it should be the same in 26. So I wonder, if it worked flawlessly in 26 but not in 27, if another aircraft has been chosen, or some other thing changed?

I was in an a320, but I believe I managed to reproduce this in a 737-8. I'll check tonight when I fly the crj900 I have. There is another bug but I'll post in a separate reply just to keep things a bit tidy.

[ke7zum]

On a side note, one thing I'd love to do is, when importing a flight, in that same dialog actually select the payload and fuel directly from there. So instead of just overwriting altitude, in that same dialog we can have the altitude area for overwriting, next to that manual payload entry, followed by a manually fuel entry button which would bring up a dialog similar to the manual fuel entry in the flight generator.

I was about to actually bring this up. Is there a way we can load let's say passengers at what ever weight simbrief gives us? So 150 passengers at 230 lbs each, or about 1.5 kg each. and then the cargo at what ever is in my plan? 0 at times.

Thanks.

[ke7zum]

One thing I notice with preview 27 and further back I think to 25 is even with the radio checked etc I do not hear 'nav one has glide slope and back course." anymore. I dunno if I actually messed that up, but someone else who uses the preview has not heard this either. I've ben on the phone with them etc.

[Steve Waite]

OK will check that out.

[Orinks]

I think you have to have navigation HSI on in order for that to speak.
That's the thing, in the voice selection checkbox area we need descriptions on what those optioons speak. Some are self-explanetory while others are not.

[Orinks]

About FSAerodata, they've changed the method as to how the sim detects it now. Instead of scenery entries, it is presented as an addon. With the latest update to the configuration tool, the bug was fixed where it wouldn't create the add-on entry.

Ideal Flight seems to detect it okay so that issue was on their end.

[ke7zum]

I think you have to have navigation HSI on in order for that to speak.
That's the thing, in the voice selection checkbox area we need descriptions on what those optioons speak. Some are self-explanetory while others are not.

I didn't see it last night while on stream unless I missed it. Did you hear me pass it at all? Not doubting you, I frankly cannot remember seeing anything about HSI. I do agree some of the labels could have better explanations, this way I can figure out what I broke.

[Steve Waite]

With the speaking, some items take a few seconds to speak out, so it would not be able to speak out others in a timely fashion. We have to enable only those we want to have reliably spoken. Basically switches pushed come out instantly so if you want to hear something speak, make sure to have switches pressed beforehand, or turn off those switch callouts. I'm looking at the HSI callouts in a bit and will come back to report on that.

The manual fuel setup in your current version works reliably with setting of the Once parameter, avoid fixed and automatic. I've sorted that out now for Preview 28. During the accessible upgrades I had unfortunately left in a bit of original code which changes the desired result of that form after the new code had set things up.

[Steve Waite]

[quote="ke7zum]Is there a way we can load let's say passengers at what ever weight simbrief gives us? So 150 passengers at 230 lbs each, or about 1.5 kg each. and then the cargo at what ever is in my plan? 0 at times.[/quote]

FSX and P3D use 170Lb for the passenger default with hand luggage. However we can set the passenger weight to whatever we want in Ideal Flight but largely a waste of time. There is no actual way to determine the passenger count in FSX and P3D loadout compartments. Instead, simply set the desired weight of the cargo, cargo being the combined passengers and luggage in that case.

[Orinks]

When selecting a manual fuel value, what should automatic behavior do when selected?

When I had previously selected it, it basically regenerated the plan and it was as though I had not tried to enter a manual fuel value. Is that the bug in question? In any case, that's why I've always stuck to using once.

As far as speaking, I have the majority of what I want spoken divided out into the phases. It works well, but the HSI as far as local/glideslope indication was just a guess. On approach I have things like approach with glideslope on, etc.