Throttle doesn't work when looking at the G1000 in VR

Bug Reporting Hub Virtual Reality (VR)
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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

When the mouse cursor (or the VR headset cursor) is over the G1000 (or toolbar panels) the throttle doesn’t accept keyboard inputs. This means that when you look at the G1000, the throttle doesn’t work.

As a result, flying with the G1000 (or toolbar panels) is excruciating in VR, forcing you to always remember to look away to make throttle adjustments, then down at the throttle to confirm the changes took.

Sadly, this keeps career mode with the C172 G1000 from being fun in VR. There’s more than enough to worry about without also having to deal with throttle mishaps while trying to stay within speed tolerances.

In 2020 we could avoid this silliness by never flying G1000 planes or by hacking cameras.cfg (luckily, instrument views don’t suffer from “dead throttle”), but those aren’t options right now in 2024 career mode.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Whenever you look at the G1000 (or toolbar panels) in VR

REPRODUCTION STEPS

  1. Move the yoke so the VR cursor recenters on the VR headset

  2. Turn your headset towards the G1000 so the cursor is over it

  3. Press the throttle increase or decrease key on the keyboard

  4. Look down at the throttle to confirm that it remains unchanged

  5. Take a load of *#%+ from the mission log for exceeding speeds

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As a workaround, I created an add-on on flightsim.to that fixes it for some aircraft.

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perhaps related, if you VR zoom into instruments, you have zero control of your aircraft. I don’t remember that being an issue in 2020, but in 2024, right click your mouse on eg: G1000 and your flight stick doesn’t respond until you zoom back out.