Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

[Steve Waite]

HSI was not enabled while on ground, now restricted by the Voice enable settings. New, calls out "glide slope" when initially sensed.

[jessiepp]

don't rush to much.

[Steve Waite]

It has been a mad rush to get the accessibility in! But it is finally coming back together.

I've also found the automatic runway selection doesn't work right, fixed now.

When closing IF and the sim is still running IF does some checks before closing, a second press of the close button might pop up a message before closing, that's fixed too.

Also for the sighted, the P3D 5 specified airports are not fully catered for yet with no apron drawn on the maps.

[Steve Waite]

I've removed the temporary information page access from the Kneeboard key (SHIFT+F10). Information pages are selected using the forward and back hot keys. The Kneeboard re=speak hot key is renamed to Information hot key and that selects the information pages. The assist cycle hot key now moves from the throttle if enabled to the information page, then back to the voice setting selection.

[Orinks]

hi there steeve god work as always keep it up.

Thanks! I will keep things moving along as fast as I can.


Payloads don't work properly - on some planes comes out short. That's just been fixed.

With certain planes I have also have fuel come up short as well. Was this manual payload entry or when IF does it automatically?

[Orinks]

HSI was not enabled while on ground, now restricted by the Voice enable settings. New, calls out "glide slope" when initially sensed.

It should also call out the localizer when the plane has it. It currently calls out that nav1 has it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the aircraft is following it. Perhaps it should say something like "localizer captured", and then with your latest change we should know that the glideslope is captured and should be descending following the glide path.

[Steve Waite]

HSI was not enabled while on ground, now restricted by the Voice enable settings. New, calls out "glide slope" when initially sensed.

It should also call out the localizer when the plane has it. It currently calls out that nav1 has it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the aircraft is following it. Perhaps it should say something like "localizer captured", and then with your latest change we should know that the glideslope is captured and should be descending following the glide path.

Will have a think. You need to be within range but you don't need to be facing the right way to get the signals.

[Steve Waite]

I will make it when switched in to follow the approach it will call out captured when in range and describe directions. Shortly I will introduce the navigation selection to the Assist panel. That will set up the Autopilot for the approach or navigation selected.

At the moment I am checking the payloading and the runway predictions had been messed up. In fairness there's not been too much disturbed considering every control was changed and hundreds of items adjusted for the accessibility functionality.

[Steve Waite]

..also have some more functionality built into the throttle manager to handle overcoming inertia from zero knots. Just did a flight LIPZ to LIRF in the Mooney, IFR with approaches, any Airways, mission page Computed approach and initial departure fix, Ideal Flight weather set to default. I have all the other sim flight and navigation accoutrements that I could list until kingdom come but there was nothing wrong with that flight. Considering I have REX, AS, PFPX, PMDG etc. With one press of the next flight random Ideal Flight handling the entire affair was a great experience in flight simulation.

I would think this type of flight might be a great introduction to the real pleasures of flight simulation. Following a plan and integrating the complete solution with one main program. Without Ideal Flight it's a mess of problems to work out where I can go from where, integrate weather and everything else. I'll continue to improve Ideal Flight in any way that's worthwhile.

All the way from after pushback I used the throttle manager presets. The hotkeys now work so that we can cycle assist functions including the information pages. Information pages no longer work from the Kneeboard key. The kneeboard speak key is now the information page key. That repeats the current page we are on, the forward and back keys move across pages. When reselecting the throttle manager from using the info pages or voice presets the manager stays on the setting it is on and calls out what the setting is.

[Orinks]

..also have some more functionality built into the throttle manager to handle overcoming inertia from zero knots. Just did a flight LIPZ to LIRF in the Mooney, IFR with approaches, any Airways, mission page Computed approach and initial departure fix, Ideal Flight weather set to default. I have all the other sim flight and navigation accoutrements that I could list until kingdom come but there was nothing wrong with that flight. Considering I have REX, AS, PFPX, PMDG etc. With one press of the next flight random Ideal Flight handling the entire affair was a great experience in flight simulation.

I would think this type of flight might be a great introduction to the real pleasures of flight simulation. Following a plan and integrating the complete solution with one main program. Without Ideal Flight it's a mess of problems to work out where I can go from where, integrate weather and everything else. I'll continue to improve Ideal Flight in any way that's worthwhile.

All the way from after pushback I used the throttle manager presets. The hotkeys now work so that we can cycle assist functions including the information pages. Information pages no longer work from the Kneeboard key. The kneeboard speak key is now the information page key. That repeats the current page we are on, the forward and back keys move across pages. When reselecting the throttle manager from using the info pages or voice presets the manager stays on the setting it is on and calls out what the setting is.

What is the best way to use the throttle manager with jets, if any? Most of them that I fly have their own autothrottle, but for those that don't, such as the CRJ and others would be useful.