Jim Hall

Thank you guys for responding to my question which was not very well put. Since, I have found the answer myself from watching U-Tube videos. There are "Hold Approaches" and I must learn more about them. Also ChatGBT is an excellent resource. Thanks again.

I am learning to navigate with the G-500. When I select an RNAV approach to a runway then select an IAF transition I am placed into a hold before reaching the IAF. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for helping.

I want to assign functions to a rocker switch on my CH Eclipse yoke. So, when I press to the left I want to look full left and when I release the button it will return to the front custom view (the seat height, back and forward etc all set) and conversely when I push the rocker button to the right it will look full right and when I release, the view will return to the custom front view. I can look around now with my hat switch but then have to fiddle with it to get it back to my front original custom view . When I have to do all that I lose situational awareness—and patience. I hope I’ve expressed myself clearly.

Thank you Tiger and Mr.Zippy.

I was looking at the FSX G-1000 tutorial and the image of the PFD.

At the end of the NAV1 bar are the letters: "PAE. At the end of the NAV2 bar are the letters: "Sea". What do they mean?

Thank you for your replies, much appreciated.

Mine won't roll to a stop after landing. You gotta use the brakes which is fine, I guess. I forgot if that is so in the real Cessna 172. On the one occasion I flew the real plane, while taxiing back to the ramp, I was wiggling back and forth and my CFI asked me what's up. Oops, I had got used to steering with my toe brakes on the sim. Also in the sim I look mostly at the instruments and not the horizon. I guess when transitioning from sim to the real plane you have to unlearn some bad habits.

Okay, thanks. Just seems odd that when idling my plane keeps taxiing.

Sorry to be a bother but my Cessna 172 idle rpm is 680. What should it be and how to get it? Thank you.

During a pause in flying FSX I updated my MS2020 and for the heck of it and tried my older Saitek Trim Wheel, again, the major turn-off for not flying STEAM MS2020 and it worked beautifully--first time ever. As my philosophy to FlightSim is, "Ours is not to reason why, but just to do and fly", I now soldier on trying to decide whether or not to upgrade my subscription to get the steam gages on the Cessna 172, the second major turn-off. With steam gages, a glance is all I need for information; with the glass cockpit I need to squint and search for the tiny numbers and then try to regain my situational awareness when I look back up. Now I have to go back to the previous posts to find out if I should upgrade in the store here or some other way. I value ease of transition over the money actually. Seems every change leads to many time consuming and frustrating problems. Many thanks to those here who ask questions and for those who patiently answer them.

I'm not sure what you mean by "user list" or how to find it. Long term enthusiasm and passion on any subject should be highly regarded especially if the person wants to share it. My enthusiasm and passion for flight sim is periodic as I have too many other things I love to do but I'm sure my posts will show both the passion and periodicity. For every post I make I have a dozen more questions that I refrain from posting for fear of being a bore or too lazy to look for answers myself, not to say appearing to be hopeless. Age should not be a concern for those who do FSX and I would not presume to tell you mine; however, I was in the Civil Air Patrol at 13 years old when the first Cessna 172 rolled off the production line. We flew L-16s out of PVD with no radios and with WWII pilots who wanted to continue flying but did not have the funds to do so. Most let me fly the airplane when we were in a safe place.

Mr. Zippy: Negative A2A C-172, the FSX Skyhawk. Phrog: The odometer thingy under the tach. In real life you can never reset the time-tach but I was thinking maybe you can on FSX.

Can tach time on the fsx tachometer be reset?

Thank you, Mark.

Much obliged Phrog. I tried three different airplanes and all stepped in movement. I then replaced the newer Flight Velocity Pro with the old Saitek trim wheel and got pure, sweet, and smooth movement. These are two different wheels with different components. Maybe the Pro was made for FS2020? One more thing to remember.

When slowly turning the trim wheel the movement jumps a level up or down instead of a smooth continuous movement. The same at various sensitivities and nulls. Is this a characteristic of this wheel?

Thank you Mr. Zippy. That would mean that since the "save" any improvements to the various settings to make the plane fly more smoothly would not apply and you would have to accept the old settings, or at least those that were saved. Perhaps it's best that after fine tuning settings over a period of time to delete all previous "saved" flights and go with new ones. (I assume they never fixed the "Delete Flight" bug and you have to still do it through the Documents). Does the same go for "Saved Flight Plans"?

When a flight is selected from saved flights are the settings current or from the time of the save?

Alas, after several tries I got mine to bind by the new profile method described above but when I tried to use it my plane went into an unrecoverable dive. A year ago I left MS2020 thinking to try this new flight simulator again in 2023 thinking the bugs would have been worked out. I could not get my controllers to work smoothly--no matter how expertly done-- and funny things happened out of the blue, no pun intended, that together with the lack of the steam instruments Cessna 172 and despite the siren call of the graphics has compelled me to fall back on FSX that most dear and loyal friend. I'll try again in 2024 ever the optimist.

Thanks Tim. Should I upgrade from STEAM Standard Version to Deluxe version using the MS2020 Marketplace?

How can I upgrade my STEAM 2020 so as to get the Cessna 172 steam gages?

Thanks Kilo. I am going to try those for sure.

I'm at the point now where my profiles/mapping/sensitivities are looking good and I'm now ready to assign buttons to my yoke. I fly the Cessna 172. I have the Redbird Yoke YK1 but many others have similar button arrangements on the handles. What button assignments do you recommend to the priority buttons at the top of the handle? I have a black push button (spring return) at the tip (ATC?), a red push button (spring return), a rocker switch, and a hat switch set to look around the cockpit. I also have an XBOX with an empty profile waiting. Thanks for your recommendations.

Thank you gentlemen for your comments. I'll keep at it.