Go to your key bindings. Set ALL and look under MISCELLANEOUS. Scroll down and you will see three options: Sim Rate, Decrease Rate, Increase Rate. Forget Sim Rate. Just delete the default. Bind Decrease and Increase Sim Rate. I used Right Control to Plus on the keypad, and Right Control to Minus on the keypad. Works great.
I already found it - it is bind by default to CTRL - NumPad+ and CTRL - NumPad-. In older Flight Simulator titles it was + amd - on the main keyboard (next to backspace).
The weird thing I find is that it doesnāt seem to reset to the default rate if you say increase it twice and then decrease it twice. It seems to just be a bit off from a real clock.
I canāt even change the Sim Rate. I press r then + or minus and nothing. I tried ctrl-plus and ctrl-minus as well, nothing. Even tried mapping the increase and decrease sim rates to right ctrl plus and minus and deleting the r for sim rate, nothing changes.
You can check your sim rate by turning on your strobe. It flashes about once per second in real time.
When I increase sim rate more than one click the pitch begins to oscillate and goes unstable.
It would be nice to know which time acceleration setting Iām using, especially when trying to go back to real time.
Thank you!
I am using sim rate R+ctrl+ but i was wondering is there any window screen anything That shows how fast rate isā¦2x 4x 8x ? Like in xp11, i can see buy stopwatch how fast is going but itās strange looks like pretty slow when going on regular speedš¤
You can determine your sim rate by turning on your beacon and/or strobe and going to an outside view. In normal time, the pattern is one flash per second, or very close to that. (In the Cub, itās a double flash once per second).
I look at a running clock in the cockpit, like the display on the Garmin. But what I really try to do is just remember how many times I pressed R + so I can undo it by the same amount. No text overlay on the screen for simulator status indicators: missing item #4712 in this early access alpha.
Yes, Iāve found the easiest way to calibrate/check your setting is to open the āNAVā overlay, start the stopwatch there, and compare it to the in-cockpit clock. That way you can quickly confirmif you are at normal time, speed up, or slowed down.
To get it back to normal time you mash the ctrl- key serveral times and then the ctrl+ key two times
Iām not sure if thatās exactly to time; I suspect itās a little faster but itās the level before is definitely too slow
I just wish they had a reset button!
Its so annoying, I had to set a timer and compair it to the cockpit clock in the game to see if it was normal time or sped up.
Yes, much-needed.
Why not just do it the same way it was done in FSX /P3D, with it written in a line across the top,of the screen. No need to reinvent the wheel.
This is ridiculousā¦ In FSX, 14 years ago, you could reset the sim rate to normal
with a keystroke. Yet another function to add to the long list of things that were better in FSXā¦
What is the Change-Rate? 2x 4x 8x? or 2x 3x 4x
I tried using sim rate to catch up to a multiplayer group, I left auto pilot on so it would fly the same route as them, and got a tip box onscreen telling me it goes faster if you disable auto pilot. Yeah, OK fine. Trouble was, when I reset the rate to normal, the Tip box stayed on screen and nothing I tried would get rid of it and I tried everything short of restarting the flight. Gave up in the end and went to bed. REALLY annoying.
Hmmmm And how did you reset the rate to normal?
Assuming everyone has a mobile phone, this app has a tab which letās you control the rate. It is also fantastic for controlling autopilot, lights etc