OK, I got my racing pad today and set it up. The NLR software worked fine ‘out of the box’ with no real problems setting it up. I’ll tell you though, all the sliders were set to 100% when I turned it on, and I started in cruise mode. WHOA NELLIE!! I thought some of my fillings were going to shake out of my head.
After I turned the settings down a bit, I’d have to say that I’m satisfied with the purchase so far. I haven’t had much time to play with it due to my wife - er, I mean due to being diverted to other pressing tasks, but I’m planning on tweaking it some more in the next few hours.
I’m curious as to whether the SimShaker software has more features that I should try to take advantage of. It seems that when I fly the Bombardier Global 6000, I get some vibrations from the engine, flaps, speed brakes, gear, and suspension, but at least my initial observation is that they are kind of generic in nature. Admittedly, I have not had the opportunity to tweak the settings or try another profile (I downloaded the one above from Baracus and I’ll try that later). I might wander over to SimShaker to see if that is more robust, but I’ll need to read more on this thread about it.
I will say this. My wife travels quite a bit and flies regularly, but I really don’t. I had the settings down to about 25% and had her take a seat as I was in cruise mode in the Bombardier, and she immediately said “Yeah, that feels like sitting in an airplane.” You can’t really beat that, huh?
It’s too early to rate it now because I haven’t yet gotten the settings where I want them, and I’m not sure that I’m going to try SimShaker or not. But my initial impression is that it was worth the purchase. At first I thought it was going to be a bit uncomfortable, but I found myself tweaking values and forgetting that I was sitting on it, so its actually not bad at all.
As a side note, I ordered this about ten days ago give or take. About five days after I ordered it, I got an alert from Amazon telling me that it had arrived. I opened my door and saw that I had a huge box which contained not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE racing pads. (We had another FedEx delivery today which was the ONE that I actually ordered). Now my first impression was to have a lottery and let some of you fine gentlemen receive one of these, but if I’d have done that my parents would have dropped a brick from heaven to remind me to do what’s right.
I will say one thing - when you send an email to a company’s customer service to tell them that you have over $1000 of their product in your living room that was sent to you in error, they do tend to respond rather quickly and politely.
I’ll have another go at it tonight and let you know how it works out. I also want to give a special thanks to all the fellow sim pilots who have given such amazing and helpful feedback to everyone on these boards. You guys are tops in my book.
It is a great addition.
Talk about bad timing!
