Stuck in a cockpit without TRACK IR - Some thoughts.

[Waldo.Pepper]

This is mostly for Mobius, but I figure someone else may like it too, maybe even benefit as well.

I have an X-45, but presumably this will work for the X-52 as well.

I think trackIR is indispensable, but in case you do not have it to make in cockpit life easier, try the following.

Before I had TrackIR I used a little utility called Newview26.

It is available here, and has all the installation directions contained within, so I won't bother to repeat them here.

http://www.airwarfare.com/Sims/FB/fb_newview.htm

So setup Newview26 first then follow the rest.

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Now that I have a track IR the hat button is freed up to use for other things. (You can of course use any other button besides a hat button ... with trackir it is freed up for me, so I use it for this. If you are like Mobius without trackIR I would recommend using Newview, and following the rest of this post, perhaps using rocker rudder, or something else on the X-52).

I use POV hat 1 on my x-45 for this.

In controls section of PF, I set increase fov to E and decrease fov to Q.

Pressing the hat up makes a Q press (to zoom in), and down makes a E press (to zoom out).

So each time I press the hat up it makes an E, or Q downward. But the clever part comes with the profiling software and the X-45.

Right click on the up button of Hat 1 and choose Advanced editor. Then copy the following screen:

What this does is it make the button send a Q every 0.02 seconds for as long as you hold the button down.

Then do the same thing for the down button.

Easy peasy. Now the zoom is simulated, just like in LOMAC.

From SST Manual (from Saitekusa.com website).

Just like in the Macro Recorder, the numbers underneath the keystrokes represent the time in seconds from when you pressed the first key in the sequence; in the Advanced Editor though you can adjust these timings.

[Mobius One]

Hey thanks waldo,