Three lesser known aircraft features for 11.10

31 comments on “Three lesser known aircraft features for 11.10”

1. Great! I’m so excited for 11.10, there are so many interesting and long awaited features. Thanks a lot LR! By the way, could we expect it for this week?

   1. they don’t give release dates

2. Anything for the already awesome default cessna 172 on 11.10?

   1. As you probably already know, we’ll have the G1000 (NAV3) variant of the 172S in 11.10.

      1. Thanks for the confirmation that it will indeed make it into 11.10.

         Would it be impudent to ask what you will be working on next? 😉

         1. Let’s just say that the slave/free gyro AHRS was developed for the CRJ originally. To keep it from collecting dust longer, I rolled it into 11.10 as a default feature. Which tells you about the glacial pace the CRJ is coming along.

            1. Thanks.

               Bummer but also yay, I guess!

            2. what about the Citation X we saw screen shots of?

3. Wow, thank you for adding the Profile feature!

   I’ve just seen it in this video (minute 31 and 40 seconds): https://youtu.be/KGKqpix3hR0
   Thank you very much!!!

   1. Tyler made that. Yes, I also think it will be pretty useful.

   2. Shhh… it’s a surprise! 😉

      1. Thank you so much for adding this!! :)))

         I don’t think you should keep it under the lid as it will make lots and lots of users very happy.

         By the way: did the results of the poll here (https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/124775-integration-of-functionality-to-save-assignments-on-a-per-aircraft-basis-into-default-x-plane-11/) in any way influence the decision to create the profile feature?

         1. We will indeed publicize it (pretty heavily) once the beta is live. 🙂

            I wasn’t aware of that poll (somebody should email me about these things! 😉 ), but we had lots of people request this feature over the years. We had actually hoped to ship it in 11.00, but we just ran out of time. Based on the amount of user feedback about it, we felt like it was “about time” to actually implement it.

            1. If I was feeling sassy I might say that based on user feedback, weather and seasons are coming soon too. But I’m not 😉

            2. Will the profiles be able to be exported and imported across systems/installations of X-Plane 11? I understand if you want to keep some features under wraps but I believe that’d be a pretty useful one.

            3. @Marius, would that we had the resources to give everything everyone they want!

               @Alden What’s the use case here? Like, you and I both have the same joystick, and you want to take all my per-aircraft configurations and use them yourself?

            4. @Tyler Young yes and no. We’ve already utilized the custom USB equipment ability (Can’t think of the proper term) that knows the basis of what buttons and axes are supposed to do what.

               The problem lies in the fact that some people want their hat switch to trim their plane, while other people want to use a hat switch to view left and right. Obviously, by default we set up trimming to the hat switches, but it’d be awesome to switch between trimming and view change via a single menu option, and being able to deploy the configurations to a multitude of simulators would be the icing on the cake.

               Thanks for your response!

            5. @Alden, you’ve got mail. 🙂 I think the .joy format could be extended to do what you’re asking for, but I’d like to take the discussion offline to make sure I understand what you need.

            6. And a command to toggle betwixt the configurations 1, 2, 3… allows one button to cycle the other button(s) through various possibilities…?

               May as well cover all the bases. Someone’s bound to ask for this notion, since it’s possible with joystick programming software. 🙂

            7. Not in 11.10… maybe in the future.

            8. I wanted to let you guys know but wasn’t sure what is the proper channel to use to submit a community based feature request.
               Interesting enough I was just in the process of writing an email to support when I became aware of the video mentioning the pofile feature 🙂 …

               One question remains: will it be possibe to assign different hardware controlers to the same axis within one profile?

            9. It’s certainly possible to assign multiple axes to the same usage (e.g., pitch, yaw, etc.)… but it’s won’t work consistently unless you only have one of those devices plugged in at a time. X-Plane doesn’t make any guarantees about which axis it “listens” to if multiple devices with conflicting axis assignments are plugged in at once… and that’s not something that’s likely to change any time soon. (Indeed, it’s not entirely clear how we could support that, considering that as hardware ages, it tends to send little “jitters” to the USB controller, meaning that you could easily have two axes with the same assignment “moving” at the same time!)

4. Hi Philipp, I filed a bug this weekend for the gps knob in a windowed mode of the gps where used correctly as described in the user manual it does not change the decimal part of the com radio. It is a bit annoying ;-). Is it something that you perhaps could take care of before starting a long lasting new project? I could think it is a really minor issue to solve for you and it would make using the gps friendlier. If you need more input (beside the filed bug report), feel free to contact me. I am in the same time zone / Germany.
   kind regards to the whole team and thank you very much for the amazing x-plane

   1. If you filed the report through the proper channel, it will make it to me, no worries.

5. And so bits of the puzzle trickle in. Nice to know we will soon have a simple method for FMS-LOC capture.

   Now, how about an efficient method to get the type/region of fixes (ENRT or ICAO-APT) and region via XPLMGetNavAidInfo or some other command?

   1. Adding more functions to XPLMNavigation is on my list, but still not at highest priority. If all you need is the terminal and local IDs, I’d say it’s much faster for you to just parse the file yourself – it’s plain text separated by whitespace. Not that hard to parse.

      1. Not hard at all, I agree, but for those who make their own EFIS maps it seems pointless to load that 190,000+line database file into memory when XP already does so for fast SDK access.

6. Awesome stuff. Really excited to get my hands on 11.10.

   Question, are there any plans to increase the text resolution of waypoints and navaids on the default ND? Waaaay too tiny atm and would make 95% of aircraft using this system much more enjoyable!

   -Regards

   1. At some point, yes – we need to overhaul the instrument nav displays a bit first.

7. what do you do to Miscellaneous.prf to show only the 530 screen popped out?

   1. You can edit the on-screen coordinates for all pop-out windows in the Miscellaneous.prf, so you can position parts of the window outside of what your actual screen is. But the new way is much more straightforward.

Comments are closed.