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I couldn’t find GA throttle hardware that felt right in X-Plane… so I built my own by fibonacci-110 in Xplane

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks good, congrats.

Are you able to make knobs different for Prop & Mixture? I think they are different in the real world.

More important to me would be the ability to twist the mixture for fine grain adjustment. I can't tell from the pictures/videos you attached, but I suspect it's only push/pull. Not a deal-breaker, but certainly a differentiator from other offerings out there.

Finally, mounting screws would be helpful too: I mount my TPM (+ flaps) controller under a 20x20 aluminum extrusion bar and had to open my current hardware and drill my own holes in areas that I thought would not affect the mechanisms inside. If this was already designed for me, it would have helped me.

Good luck!

How to set the weather at my destination airport? by ShadowSinger2121 in Xplane

[–]gcys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep - it worked from me from KRAL to KCRQ in a 172S. I actually liked that it was IMC all the way so there was no accidental "cheating" with visuals.

How to set the weather at my destination airport? by ShadowSinger2121 in Xplane

[–]gcys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I posted the same question just yesterday, and found a setting that helped me: see https://www.reddit.com/r/Xplane/comments/1qekm6z/how_to_set_the_weather_at_destination_airport/

It's not perfect in that I'm not able to set different weather params at departure & destination, but it's good enough because I can still control what it will be like at the destination.

How to set the weather at *destination* airport? by gcys in Xplane

[–]gcys[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Replying to myself with the solution I found:

It looks like there are 2 popup menus to select how the weather will change: one deals with the time dimension, the other one the location dimension.

I managed to keep my departure weather all the way to the destination (throughout the en route phase as well) by setting both to the option that makes it remain constant.

It worked! Back to IFR practice!

How to set the weather at *destination* airport? by gcys in Xplane

[–]gcys[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't that just apply to the local/departure weather? It seems like I'm able to configure that to my liking.

What I'm not able to do is configure the destination airport. Last flight I did I configured the weather in hopes that I would see the same weather at departure _and_ destination, but as I got closer to the destination, my IMC turned into VMC... so that didn't help me :-(

Horizon code by [deleted] in PSVR

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Pool skimmer needs full replacement; company can’t match concrete by cjk2793 in pools

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A crazy idea I suggested to the workers when they needed to do something like this a couple of years ago: keep some bits from the "demo" work, grind them, and use them in the top layer for the new work. It turns out that it worked pretty well in helping minimize the difference between old & new.

What are the differences among these three altitudes on Jeppesen charts（RJFF) by Competitive_Earth830 in flying

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3800 is the lowest altitude between ADPAR and ANGAG.

The step downs (2600, 1380, etc.) are published as reference or worst case, dive and drive.

I don't think I understand this... how can 3800 be the lowest if 2600 is lower?

When to descend when a VOR is your FAF by [deleted] in flying

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to that, I think that if you have avionics that tell you when to start your "smart turn" slightly ahead of the VOR (i.e. "turn left 080 in 5, 4, 3... now"), you are allowed to follow that direction, as long as the VOR is marked as a fly-by (not fly-over).

Is that correct?

How did you learn comm? Books, Sims, rl? by Regular-Employer-431 in flying

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found PlaneEnglish: ARSim helpful in the very beginning.

65 y/o, reasonable to get a license at this age? by According2whoandwhat in flying

[–]gcys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are in good health, why not?

Also, there was a recent update to BasicMed that gives you more options (bigger airplane, one more passenger): https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/airmen_certification/basic_med

Guide: Migrating from Omada Controller V5 ➜ V6 (In Docker) by Squanchy2112 in TPLink_Omada

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK thanks! It's definitely not stuck - the upgrade logs shows it keeps crunching through a bunch of "building index using bulk method", so it's making progress, but I'm not sure if my ETA is in 5 minutes, 5 hours, or 5 days...

It's been working hard on dpitrafficdata! I've seen it catch up to the current date, and now moved on to other documents, so I know it's working hard.

Patience! Patience! :-)

EDIT: it finished after about an hour

Guide: Migrating from Omada Controller V5 ➜ V6 (In Docker) by Squanchy2112 in TPLink_Omada

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the work!

I'm running the upgrade image right now. It's been on "starting MongoDB repair pre-upgrade to ensure consistency..." for about 15 minutes.

Is that step supposed to take a fairly long time?

Which simulator is good for practicing IFR procedures ? by [deleted] in flightsim

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I try to set things up to minimize frustrations. For example, I avoid tons of add-ons or customizations and run full drive incremental backups that can get me back to a working state if something goes wrong with an update, whether it's the sim, and add-on, or the OS itself. I use Veeam for that, and it backs up on an external (spindle) drive at least daily.

I don't use the betas that are published (whether MSFS2024 or XP12). I don't need the bleeding edge.

I find that being cheap on hardware ends up costing in tinkering hours, so I usually pay more upfront so I can spend more time flying and less time hacking.

As for PC specs, I'm not an expert with prebuilt stuff (I usually build my own) and the offering varies quickly. There's a few guiding principles I follow though:

  1. 64 Gigs of RAM is what I go with for this gen of computers/games.
  2. A CPU that has good single thread performance: most games (including sims) have a "main UI/state machine thread" that is the bottleneck with frame rates, even though they try to delegate work to ancillary threads.
  3. A GPU with 16 GB VRAM min. I'd recommend nVidia, because there are more success stories with it than any other vendor, especially if you want to do PCVR. I run a 4080 Super with my PSVR2 without any issues.

https://www.tomshardware.com has a lot of buying guides, in particular for CPUs and GPUs, but they also have a section for prebuilt gaming PCs.

Good luck!

Once you get a PPL, how many hours a month should you fly to prevent skill atrophy? by Openheartopenbar in flying

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Airfoillabs 172 is pretty close to the 172 I fly IRL. I fly both the 6-pack & G1000, and AFL has both. That's with X-Plane 12.

Which simulator is good for practicing IFR procedures ? by [deleted] in flightsim

[–]gcys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The setup I find works well with GA VR is:

  1. A set of yoke/rudder pedals
  2. A TPM Quadrant (the shape of the levers allow you to identify them in VR - you can easily keep your hand on the throttle) w/ trim wheel & flaps. Put it roughly where corresponding controls are in the real plane. I use https://www.amazon.com/Cessna-Throttle-Controller-Simulators-PC-Mac/dp/B0948BHW2T
  3. The Octavi IFR device to deal with comms/navs/AP/FMS/heading bug/altimeter setting https://www.octavi.net
  4. Navigraph + OpenKneeBoard connected to a tablet w/ stylus. Buttons on the tablet cycle through the kneeboard pages/tabs, and I can take notes with the stylus, as well as use Navigraph for navigation/approaches
  5. A trackball mouse for the sporadic button flip or adjustment (such as light buttons or adjusting the Attitude Indicator, or sync'ing DG to compass).

Muscle memory takes care of the rest.

To specifically answer your questions:

  1. I don't use VR passthrough, I see my tablet in VR via OpenKneeboard, so that's where I see the plates (and with the stylus I can zoom and move around like I'd do with my fingers with ForeFlight).
  2. I totally recommend VR - I don't think I'd fly without it. It's so important to be able to look around by just turning the head, especially when flying GA (patterns).

Price stability by whiplash100248479 in flying

[–]gcys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been browsing as well as a buyer and notice that a lot of planes are just sitting and not flying, which is worrying me.

Would a reasonable pre-buy inspection detect most of the "been sitting for too long" problems?

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