Hi,
By default, AP Altitude setting increase or decrease by an increment of 100 fts. Which takes very long time when you try to set high altitudes flight levels by scrolling mouse wheel (or using any orther buttons)…
Yet, few aircraft (A320, Cessna, …) have the possibility to use alternative button in the cockpit to increase/decrease AP ALtitude by an increment of 1,000 fts.
Why is it not customisable in Options/Commands options/Autopilot section ?
Moreover, I’d like to use a button to switch between +/-100 fts and +/-1,000 fts incrementation modes which I think this would be very helpfull for any hotas and controllers (including mouse) as well !
Indeed A320 has a selector inside virtual cockpit to select either 100 or 1000 increment mode to set up altitude. But in Command Options, there is no way to affect this switch to a physical button.
Such improvement would ease AP Alt set up.
My wish is to implement it to any aircraft that have autopilot what ever cockpit system design, to ease AP Alt set up. Of course this make more sense for Liners, Business jet & turbine aircraft as they use to cruise at upper flight levels.
i am refering to Auto Pilot’s Altitude configuration : scrolling to +30,000 fts set up takes too much time and is not easy especially while in turbulent flight conditions for example.
(Setting AP vertical speed is much quicker as usually limited to few hundreds or thousands feets/min ; and can already be done through physical button. So, I don’t see interest to add a +/-1,000 selection mode to it. Do you ?)
I suppose… Are you trying to build a home cockpit that you need this command binding into a physical hardware?
Because if not, I just use my mouse and scroll wheel. Switch it to 1000, then I use my mouse wheel to scroll while I hover on the knob. I can get from 100 ft to 39000 in 3 seconds. And use mouse clicks to press/pull the knob.
If you are building a home cockpit. I think FSUIPC can “capture” the event that happen when the 100/1000 switch is flicked. Then use that event and bind it to your home cockpit hardware.
Unfortunately not !
I am just seeking to use one of VIRPIL VPC MongoosT-50CM3 Throttle’s Encoder Dial (+ Push). I can already increase/decrease Alt by turning Left/right but it takes a long time to set +35,000fts for exemple (same issue using mouse wheel) ; thus i would like to use the push button to switch between +/-100 & +/-1000 fts modes (if it is implemented one day).
I am also sometime proceeding like you, using mouse in A320 or DA62, but how do you do in 747 or business jets : don’t you think it might be helpful to have such switch implemented in any Aircraft with AP ?
I suppose so… But I dunno how to do it for the 747 or business jets… I only fly Airbus exclusively in MSFS… So I never really thought about the other aircraft.
Are you satisfied by the time it takes to set for example 35,000 fts in b747, TBM, King350, A787 from 0 ?
That’s :
~95 turns of mouse wheel in King Air 350 !!!..
~62 turns of mouse wheel in A787 !!!
~97 turns of mouse wheel in TBM !!!
~88 turns of mouse wheel in JBM !!!
~81 turns of mouse wheel in Citation !!!
etc…
Maybe that’s my mouse (a corsair), but i can’t believe any other simmers are not annoying with this. How do you proceed or feel about it ?
I also noticed that inside cockpit for some aircrafts you have to scroll down mouse wheel to decrease alt and others to scroll up (& vice versa)… which makes no sense considering flight commands (pull to go up & push to go down) and is very confusing !
I would recommend to standardize Alt setting such as scrolling down to increase and scrolling up to decrease AP Alt.
