Many simmers have a lot of hardware and we need to configure that hardware differently for each plane, some are jets some are not, some have mixture controls some not, some have 1 engine, some 2, some 4.
The combination of many planes and a lot of hardware is a big pain today in MSFS, if we create profiles for each plane and device then when switching planes we have to select the profile for that plane in each of our devices.
My request is very small: Change the way to select a profile to a dropdown menu, in this way we can select a profile for a device without clicking the arrows n times until we reach the desired profile.
There is really no advantage in terms of UI using the arrows, if there are a lot of profiles just add a scrollbar to the dropdown.
Having a dropdown list would improve that UX a lot, but it still doesnāt solve the fundamental issue of per aircraft profiles per device and auto switching.
Itās actually not that simple, given the dynamic nature of device setups and numbers of planes people are now accumulating, but Iām working through it step by step. Thereās a lot of potential edge cases, and Iām sure a bunch of unknown ones will pop up.
At list, the controllers, I have 4 controllers in addition to mouse and keyboard; to avoid issues, I set a new controller profile for each type of aircraft. I have at least 6 aircraft, so each controller has hidden 6 or 7 profiles.
Any time I change the aircraft I have to go to each controller and click until the correct profile shows up, could be the first, could be the 7th, and that times 4 (4 controllers) Really??? That was never Microsoft where minimizing the number of clicks has always been a user friendly must.
And by the way, a drop down menu is the mos basic programming feature we can imagine, here since windows 95!!!
Yes, itās a pain and afaik they are looking into it. But wen fix, who no?
In the meantime, I released Aircraft Control Presets recently as part of Aircraft Manager Pro , which lets you automatically switch device control presets on a per aircraft basis:
Hi, indeed. There are a lot of things we may wish, many dependant on taste, but a few are just basic common IT senseā¦ reinventing the wheel is not innovationā¦ I said soon after release of MSFS: best simulator ever, worse quality everā¦ what a pityā¦ Iāll give your tool a go, thanks
It would be nice if this part could be dropdown menus instead of scrolling menus. It takes forever to scroll thru all my options. Even if there were a search bar that would be great too!
Been looking for something like this for a long time! Just purchased it yesterday 06.21.23, I Love It!!! Thank you for the time spent in creating this tool!
Iāve been using the Aicraft Manager (payware) by SonicViz for the last few months and it is -at least for me- a game changer.
Background: I have a lot of hardware and many planes and I like to setup my hardware to replicate the plane as much as possible, so I fly with a stick planes that use a stick, with a yoke those that use a yoke, etc. So defaultish mappings are not my cup of tea.
Before Aicraft Manager: I used to have about 50+ profiles and every time I wanted to use a plane I had to manually change each device to the profile for the plane I want to use. As a direct consequence I started avoiding switching planes and flying one for several flights instead. Also I was very hesitant to do ātestā flights because of the need to change all profiles then change them back to previous plane.
After Aircraft Manager: I can now just pick up any plane I want to either, fly or test and all my devices are automatically magically ready for the plane as I want. So I can test a plane for a few flights, then move back to another, etc.
Totally recommend this tool for anyone having a similar situation as I had.
Glad itās working out for you and making your MSFS experience a little more productive.
In final testing with some new updates I think youāll like as well, to make things even more productive, especially for training iterations and really getting to learn an aircraft in key situations and configurations.
In the Aircraft Manager Pro, the control presets you can alphabetize them once set, butā¦when you are looking to choose in the dropdown menu can you also make those alphabetized as well? Itās nice to see them alphabetized once you set them up but choosing which one to use could be easier as well if they were alphabetized.
This is a requirement from MS as per forum TOS, as these posts are for general discussion only.
If you want to discuss AM or LM (or both) generally (itās a bit of a fuzzy area sometime) please use Aircraft Manager Pro + Location Manager Pro now available so we donāt hijack this one too much! (even though itās kind of related, itās best to let it roll)
I would like to suggest an improvement on how users can skip through different aircraft profiles on each peripheral. At present users have to either click on the right arrow or the left arrow to choose the next aircraft profile. With the current system the waiting time for each aircraft profile to be loaded can be quite annoying, especially when you have several aircraft profiles per peripheral and a number of peripherals that need to have their aircraft profiles loaded/changed.
May I suggest the following: make a dropdown list for each peripheral and the user can then choose the desired aircraft profile. This will avoid the unnecessary loading for each aircraft profile until you have reached the desired one. And make sure the aircraft profiles are listed in alphabetical order so they can be found much quicker. At the moment they seem to be in order of the date they were created.
I believe that this could make a huge difference for the user experience of a lot of customers. I have 4 to 5 peripherals installed and when I change aircraft type it is really cumbersome to change all those profiles.
Thanks for considering, would love to see such an improvement!
Better yet, do what SPAD lets you do, and link a config profile to an airccraft, so they auto-switch when chosen from the main menu. The controller profiles in use for a given plane could appear somewhere on that interface as a short, non-descript list.
It may be a while before the microsoft team can put something like this out, butā¦in the meantime check out SonicViz.com and under projcets look at Location Manager and Aircraft Manager, when I bought this they had a bundle for both. I believe youāll see exactly what youāre looking for in this these software solutionsā¦
I canāt recommend Aircraft Manager to solve this issue. Sometimes it doesnāt change my controller profiles at all, leaving me going back in the menu again. It completely ruined my Fenix Airbus profile, somehow overwriting it to where it matched my Default profile on Honeycomb Bravo. I only paid for this add-on to switch profiles and it doesnāt do that correctly, so for my needs, it was a waste of money.
They really need to do something different with controller profiles. It makes no sense to load each one as youāre trying to find the one you need. Either give us a list or put them as thumbnails we can click on or something.
One couldnāt even use the argument of the menu being easier to navigate that way with a console controller because there are drop down menus is other places, such as the map screen when picking waypoints, airports or spawn points.
Your prerogative if you want to do that, but it would have been nice to at least try.
This forum is not for support as I stated before.
Funny thing is I already had a OneNote section blocked out: Issue: CaptHawkeye50 Unknown
But never received a messageā¦
Both issues appear to me to be procedural issues at this stage, absent any real information and going by published Known Issues which donāt appear to have been followed. For what reason, I donāt know.
Issue 1, presets not changing, is due to not following the Known Issue advice and waiting until the āPlease Waitā message shows switching has finished. Pretty simple to do.
Issue 2, alleged preset rewriting is afaik not possible to do in ACP so atm I determine this to be a user error by causes unknown, until proven otherwise. No other users have ever reported this.
No other user reports of these two issues have been submitted. If they were as common as the user alleges, my inbox would be flooded. Itās not. I regularly get a few issues submitted per week to deal with, and neither of these has ever come up (bar issue 1 ages ago, which is why there is now a message also displayed on the main AM panel, Thanks @Baracus250 for that suggestion).
I donāt claim to be a perfect solution, but Iāve successfully solved various issues from timing issues running on low end systems with complex controller configurations to tobii eye tracker going off the reservation. I do try to resolve them if Iām at least given the chance, and this is actually a very tricky problem to solve. If something isnāt resolvable, for whatever reason based on info uncovered, then Iāll deal with that then.
Troubleshooting and debugging these problem setups is key to making AM more robust in this area, as itās literally impossible for even MSFS to replicate the myriad of possible setups, let alone an indy dev. So I rely on people to contact me via the established support channel to kick that process off if they do have issues.
ACP most definitely has a small learning curve in order to use properly and the resources to do that are on the website. eg: The tips, the last one of which says: * Ask support via the form at the bottom of this page if you donāt understand something, or have found a bug/issue to report.
Maybe you want to try the SpadNext external solution to this, seems to work for people as well.
Tip: Do NOT use both these together, for obvious reasons.
Again, as this forum isnāt for support due to MS TOS and I donāt wish to get into arguing about it, I just felt I needed to say that at least. The support contacts are on the websites as specified. /out.
Not to beat a dead horse with a HUGE stick, butā¦I have to say that any and all issues Iāve had with the programs have been dealt with by you specifically when I sent out a support ticket! Thanks for your hard work in getting to your customers the support they need when they contact you.
