Recent content by shadowfax

Oh, sorry. 2016. Disabling the MFDs and XR sound doesn't change anything. But I do now notice that if I start a timewarp while in external view, it doesn't do the teleportation thing. And if I then slow time back down, I can time warp whenever I want from any view I want without teleporting.

That's another weird part. It *is* a clean install as of last weekend. I'm just getting back into Orbiter after several years of being too busy to play anything. The only things I've added were the XR fleet, XR sound, and Basesync/glideslope MFDs.

This is an odd one. Sitting on the ground at KSC in an XR2, waiting for a launch window. I open the cabin hatch, connect ground cooling, and switch off the APU. Accelerate to 100x time. After about 30 seconds, I'm suddenly in space, the cabin decompresses and I die. The really weird part is...

I've tried that. It then re-installs the Saitek drivers as soon as I reboot or re-plug the stick. And the drivers are locked away in the Driver Store. I spent several hours trying to delete all traces of them including from the registry, but there's a file somewhere that keeps replacing them...

Hey, thanks for the fast reply. The trouble with that is that the Saitek driver is already installed, and Windows 10 isn't letting me uninstall it - I'll uninstall it and then as soon as I reboot it detects the stick and re-installs the Saitek driver. This is one of the reasons I'm annoyed with...

Orbiter 2016, vanilla except for the XR fleet and XR sound addons, Windows 10, Saitek X45. Everything worked fine under the default Windows joystick driver, but I decided I wanted to program buttons to keypresses, so I installed the Saitek driver/software. I went through the calibration...

Original Droid. Bought it about 4 days after it came out. Soon to be replaced (if Motorola gets its act together and actually releases it) with the Droid Bionic: supposedly due out in September.

From looking at your website, I'm kind of in the dark as to why you can't continue simulating shuttle missions until we once again have manned orbital capability in this country. It'd be a lot more fun than simulating any launch vehicle we've got going in real life right now. Looks like a...

Just to put things in perspective, I'll point out that MS Flight Simulator detects collisions, but does not handle them with the exception of a low -vs belly landing or a water landing. In a regular crash, the screen freezes, it says "CRASH" somewhere, and then gives you the chance to reset or...

Actually, I found myself doing this a few times last night. My Orbiter install has gotten crash happy, so I shut off all addon MFDs, which solved the problem. Now I'm turning them back on one at a time to see which one is the culprit. As of last night I hadn't turned Launch back on yet, so I was...

Thanks guys - I worked on your advice (and the MFD) all weekend and things are going much better now.

So I'm pretty good at launching, establishing an orbit, circularizing, matching planes, syncing, etc. What I'm not good at is figuring out the optimal direction to launch in, which means I end up with a Rinc of over 200 degrees and I either match planes (and then run out of fuel for the sync) or...

Is it possible to get the trigger button to activate both brakes using the Saitek programmer? I can get it to activate one or the other, but when I put both keys in there, I end up with no brakes at all.

Your advice worked. I was able to get to the surface without dying. Unfortunately I ended up off the coast of Scotland instead of the Cape, but that's just a matter of learning when to do the de-orbit burn. For my sessions last night I was more worried about verifying that I could get down...

Ahh ok. That's my whole problem, then. The checklist didn't mention any Vmax info, so I figured when it said you'd notice air effects at 100, and the next line said to start banking at 50, it wanted me to go ahead and descend from 100 to 50. So I was ending up at 50 with over 7km/s. I'll...