Basically, it sucks having to pause, dig into menus and then change these settings when we need them. The ability to bind to a keyboard or controller command would be awesome.
Taxiway Ribbon - This is kind of a contentious one. People seem to hate these big, blue, intrusive chevrons. And I totally agree. When flying smaller or familiar airports, I don’t need them. But sometimes, they’re really helpful when you’re lost. It would be nice to be able to toggle them on and off quickly.
Headphone mode - I like flying with headphone mode. But when I do my startups, I like using normal sound. Yeah, we should rely on instruments to tell us how startup is going, but it’s still nice to hear.
In FS2002 and FS9, the ribbon was part of the ATC options. In 2002’s version, you actually asked for progressive taxi, then ATC would say “Follow the line painted on the taxiway.” In FS9, it was just a toggle in the list of options that could be turned on when needed. It was always off by default. If they’d go back to that method, I’d be a happy camper!
Airport markers, usually don’t need em, yet some of the smaller airfields are not captured very well on the low res terrain, hard to see where or what the ‘runway’ is supposed to be. Normally I want them off.
Key to hide the HUD in external mode.
And the G1000 knob! So finicky to operate with the plane moving around.
Cherry on top, hi-res screenshot button. Elite dangerous had that option, press a button to render an 8K screenshot. Currently I pause the game, change rendering scale to 200, take screenshot, change it back to 120, unpause, continue.
Yup I’m aware, but would like to assign it to a button to toggle on and off.
A simplified less intrusive ‘HUD’ like FSX had (I think it was F3 and F4) would be nice as well.
I would add to that list the gates that show you the traffic pattern. I found these invaluable when I was first getting started, but would rather have capability to toggle them. Also, I would add a toggle for the POI & airport markers. POI markers are great to help you find something, but you might want to take a screenshot of said POI without the marker in the way.
Gave it a quick test & couldn’t get it working. Need to try again after removing square brackets from the folder name, just in case it doesn’t like those.
i know everyone hates the ATC but… the ability to map up/down/select so one can scroll the menu choices would be nice.
right now there is only one-one button mapping, ie, choice 1 to button1, choice2 to button2 and so forth…
would be awesome to be able to map a 4 way POV switch to scroll the menu. …so I don’t have to let go of the HOTAS/joystick just to use the mouse.
Yes! G1000 knobs. Difficult to adjust with turbulence and impossible with Trackir. I have rigged a touchscreen raspberri pi to send keyboard commands to the sim, but some are just not available.
G1000/3000 button bind would be awesome. Never thought of that when I made my opening post.
I just received a Logitech Multi-Panel yesterday so I can finally operate my AP without having to resort to mouse clicks and it’s great (although it lacks FLC function ) , but I’d love to be able to interact with the Garmin units from my keyboard instead of the screen. Ditto for radios as well. I know Logitech make the radio stacks as well, but not sure I really want to drop money on that as well. I’m not really looking at making a cockpit. Just looking for easier ways to interact with the sim.
For voting on these recommended toggles, should we separate them? I’d love to able to vote YES on some of of the great ideas in this thread, but maybe not all of them. Also, the individual voting might make things easier, and maybe even faster, for Asobo to implement. Of course, the downside would be lots of threads, but if they are titled properly, it should be easy.
) , but I’d love to be able to interact with the Garmin units from my keyboard instead of the screen. Ditto for radios as well. I know Logitech make the radio stacks as well, but not sure I really want to drop money on that as well. I’m not really looking at making a cockpit. Just looking for easier ways to interact with the sim.