Yeah, I think I’ve got it, thanks man!
you got it man, enjoy
Yeah that never would have even occurred to me, what a difference that makes. Now it’s my turn to suggest something awesome. I use Dragon naturally speaking and I have voice commands that perform key presses. So when I want the flaps to go down one notch I say flaps down, dragon then has a custom command that changes the phrase flaps down to a key binding in flight simulator and boom.
It’s like having your own first officer!
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Turk this sounds like a great solution to what I am looking for, but I am not sure I understand your instructions…
I would like to effectively freeze head movement on approach. Are you saying In this instance to set up a new track IR profile with all deadzones and then use an inflight binding to toggle between two track IR profiles?
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That’s exactly it. A Hotas binding for selecting a “locked profile”with no head tracking setup.
Then a second head tracking profile with two hotas bindings configured. One to select it and the other to recalibrate.
So on approach or fiddling knobs you press lock profile hotas switch.
When you are done you selec tracking hotas switch followed immediately by calibrate hotas switch.
Cool! I haven’t used dragon in “gaming” in years and years. I’m going to have to think about how to maybe implement that.
Perfect will give that a try. Thanks!
Yeah I have:
flaps up and down
gear up and down
fuel pump (booster pump toggle)
all lights individually mapped
batteries
alternators
viewpoint up and down
That’s what I have mapped to voice command at this point…
I’m interested in voice control also. I made extensive use of MCE in FSX. I’m not sure whether they are working on an update MFS 2020 as well. Have never heard of Dragon. Is it freeware? Don’t suppose anyone knows about MCE’s possible engagement with this sim?
I haven’t used it but I know Windows 10 has a built-in voice recognition app, so you can try that first. Dragon NaturallySpeaking has been around for a long time and it is used in the medical billing and coding world quite ubiquitously.
I have a bit of a disability so I use it when I’m working and I don’t even use a keyboard anymore. It’s awesome
That is v interesting and I can also see an application for my work so might invest.
I understand that raise flaps, increase flaps are easy enough to program in terms of bindings.
But how about quantities ie “set altitude 3000” or set speed 150”, are these possible via Dragon (as they are with MCE) or is that asking too much of dragon? My assumption would be that this is not possible?
i think that’s probably beyond the scope. you can have voice prompts perform functions like key binds, but i don’t think there’s any way to keybind an altitude or rate. you’d have to increase the altitude bug to X altitude, followed by setting a specific speed or rate, followed by pressing the VS or FLC button to activate it. If AP wasn’t on, you’d have to turn it on too. A lot to ask from a voice activated command not to mention limitation in the sim for setting a specific altitude or rate without manipulating the bugs.
On my stick i have heading and altitude bugs mapped to a hat switch. on the same stick, second hat switch that has a press, i press to set VS and hat up/down to increase/decrease the rate
Is there any way to bind a joystick button to pause trackir? I’m actually using Trackhat and have a key combo to toggle Trackir which works fine but there is no pause trackir feature in MSFS I can bind to a joystick button.
Scroll up and you’ll see a tutorial…fully explains what you want to do
Thanks all. I’m using Trackhat with Opentrack software but it appears you can also bind a joystick button with that so I’ll test it out tomorrow.
This is a really great idea. I have setup my normal flight profile and that seems to be working well but can’t workout in TrackIR interface how you swap profiles ingame.
If I am in my normal flight profile and select the Profile option in the drop down menu how do I select the No tracking profile to make a temporary switch?
Hi Mort, See the screenshot of my no tracking profile. Under the action dropdown there’s a “profile” this allows you to set a hotket to switch to this profile. You do the same thing for your tracking profile, in my case Joystick5 for example. Also on my trakcing profile I select Center from the dropdown and create a hotkey to activate center.
So No tracking has 1 hotkey mapped in the dropdown and Tracking has 2 hotkeys mapped in the dropdown
Press Joystick4 to switch to the no tracking profile.
Press Joystick5 to switch back to tracking profile.
Press Joystick6 to center (you need this and you’ll see why when you use it)
Thanks very much I will try that out 
Edit: It works really well. Thank you so much!
MCE works with FS2020 just fine. I have it in FSX/P3D, X-Plane and MSFS 2020.