Posts by Spit40

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Thank you Argivo, do you have a recommended link for startup procedure?

Same here ! In fact general tips even starting mid air

Great news, just in time for the 4 day Easter break

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I saw that it was an installer was in the archive, but didn't know if VRK use it directly.

I think it vould be a good solution with the wacom VRK pen and I like to fly without joystick, for me, it adds a lot of realism to take the virtual stick of the plane in virtual hand.

Does VRK link the leap motion driver ? to do what ?

he comments on it in the pdf, but i think its just a separate thing rather than an ‘integration’ with vrk as i implied earlier.

I see i can pick up another 16gb for fairly reasonable costs to go with the 16gb i already have. I’m running a 1080ti with hp reverb. Any thoughts on how much i’d benefit from the extra 16gb?

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Not sure that Aerofly support knuckles skeletal tracking yet. It seems to be mandatory for leapmotion integration ?!

But perhaps this leapmotion controler emulator can do the job like with DCS : https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=250038

you have seen that the VRK download includes a leap motion integration i presume?

I have discussed this at length with the developer. The only wacom these days that has multitouch is that Intuos M. It is expensive though and the developer hasn’t tested it

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So it should work too with the one small.

Thanks for your interesting advice Phil I do'nt know if I will keep the pen in my hand or not right now specially if I invest too in the leapmotion...

Does the bluetooth work so well than is usb mode ?

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Even if you don't write notes on the tablet with a pen you'll probably need the pen to control zoom & pan.

USBvBT: I'm waiting for my Intuos S, so my only experience is with the USB tablet. Hey let me know how you get on with leapmotion - I'd really like to get controller-less hand interaction working.

For those who don't have or want to get a pen tablet, you don't actually need one. You can still see the kneeboard but your options for interacting with it are reduced. You can still page through the content by mapping joystick buttons to page up/down but for the authentic and tactile feel of interacting with a kneeboard I think its a great solution and having the buttons on the kneepad itself makes a lot of sense. The one thing I really wish it had was multi-touch for zoom and pan the way and ipad/android tablet does with your fingers. The developer initially started with that in mind but it became too technically complex and he reverted to using the pen tablet as a more basic input controller, like a type of mouse really.

You'll want the buttons - I've dug out a very old wacom (which does work - needs the driver installed) and not having the buttons is a pain for stepping through different pages. I'm now loading in airport charts, snips from skyvector, screengrabs from google maps.... You can click some nav buttons with the pen but I'd rather not use(drop) the pen unless I need to draw

Maybe "Animation King" brunnobellic can animate us an entire red arrows sequence for us to fly alongside?

if only we could have multi-player now... finally the Virtual Red Arrows on the ultimate VR platform

I started with the turbo arrow, then tried the Cessna 172 and started to assume that GA ADF's didn't tune to 0.5 frequencies.

It was interesting as I first checked skyvector with FS2 using the FS2 mobile version and it said 332Khz, so perhaps mobile rounds down?

As a relatively new simmer, tell me does this happen a lot?

According to NATS

Unfortunately in FS2 I can't tune in to 332.5 and when I set to 333 or 332 neither work. Is there no way to use this NDB?

Essentially yes. The clever trick behind this guy’s approach is to use a pen tablet as the interface for the kneeboard. This avoids the conflict of a mouse getting confused with whether it is interacting with the sim or the kneeboard app. So, he is saying that he needs to make the kneeboard pen drive the app - moving map, 3rd party, whatever.

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Can you insert a moving map into this? I could really do with one in VR.

i’ve just been on Discord with the developer. He said:

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Ah well FYI mirroring an app is something is something that is the TODO, I just have to be sure that I can emulate the mouse with the pen passing through VRK

Its all static. You’d need ovrdrop or something similar. The problem I find with those apps is a clash between control inputs. The mouse being confused about interacting with FS2 or the app. Here the tablet talks directly to the app bypassing mouse interaction. The developer is very active there and I could see it being extended to add more functionality.

Maybe @Jet-Pack pack could get involved here. Jan, you have been saying for about two years that PDF rendering is a problem. This guy has cracked it and maybe he would work with/for iPACS to integrate his technology fully into the sim and add more features.

OK, I've spent a bit of time with this app and it really does provide what we need in VR. Using the buttons at the top can be a bit confusing at first. What I find works best is to make a folder on your desktop where you'll store everything you need for a flight. You might have the following:

• Approach plate/airport chart for destination airport
• A txt file holding any notes you have made printed to PDF
• Some screengrabs from skyvector saved as JPGs

Then in VRK hit this button and all the files will be loaded as pages into a tab and you can step back and forth through the pages of this tab. I think with this method you just get page 1 of the PDF, but for multiple page PDFs use a 2nd tab loaded in with the PDF icon. I now plan to buy a Wacom Intuos S (bluetooth) so I can use finger gestures to zoom in on the charts while in flight. Edit: Intuos S does not support ‘multi-touch’ needed for two finger zoom/pan but you can do the same with the pen.

Yep, it works. Not too fiddly to set up. I even had an old wacom pen tablet lying around. I haven’t worked out yet whether I can load in a notepad TXT file which would be quite handy.

edit: No option yet on the TXT file import. I am very tempted to get a Bluetooth pen tablet now to strap to my knee,. Found this useful video.

I am going to try this right now. I’ve been waiting for this for so long!

check this

(Live) METAR weather data for Aerofly FS 2

"That's where Force Feedback would come in if it were available in consumer devices." - absolutely. I was thinking the same. I actually paid quite a lot of attention to the scenery as it was a beautifully clear day and the scenery in the northern Lake District is quite something.