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Mobius1_MWI

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  1. Is there a way to use it without the screen grab option, or just use the CDU screen grab? The reason I ask is because I use the cougar MFDs already so I use your IPad pit for everything other than MFDs so I wouldn't need the static MFD taking up space on my already cramped screen. Thanks for all the great work too, I consider this to be one of the best add-on's for the sim, right up there with a joystick and TrackIR! :thumbup:
  2. First off, I must say, awesome work! This is really great and incredibly helpful. But, it seems I have an issue. All my buttons (the UFC buttons at least, I haven't tried others) are one button off, so, the UFC "0" on my IPad is the UFC "9" in-game, "ENT" is "CLR", "5" is "4", "4" is "3", etc. It's set up correctly in options, so I don't know if it's an issue with the IPad or the game (sim, whatever :D). Anyone else notice this?
  3. LASIK is acceptable for the US Air Force and Air National Guard also, as long as you meet the pre-op requirements (less than -8.00 diopters correction and no huge astigmatism or anything crazy like that). LASIK can mess with your night vision (lowered contrast sensitivity and glare/halos around lights), but current technologies in the surgery have nearly eliminated that. I had wavefront-guided blade-less LASIK and have had absolutely no issues in the last 2 years since I got it and I'm down to better than 20/15 vision in both eyes, near and far, night and day. AND ALSO - never tell yourself you wouldn't pass the physical or something like that and have that keep you from at least trying. If anyone is going to tell you "no", make sure it's after you've tried eight or ten times and been told "no" by 20 or 30 official looking people. :smilewink: At least that way you know you tried...
  4. This is for small aircraft only: Think about it as a flow from the control input (stick/yoke) to the control surface. You move the stick, which pulls one end of a cable that is strung through the aircraft and the other end is directly attached to the control surface. So if you move the stick 2 inches to the left, it pulls 2 inches of cable through the system, and moves the control surface 2 inches. If you pull 4 inches, it pulls 4 inches of cable and moves the control surface 4 inches. These are just random numbers I pulled, real values depend on a particular aircraft design, but you get the idea? Get some string and try it yourself, if you pull on one end of the string, the other end moves the exact same amount. You can't pull the string 1 inch and have the other end move 1 inch, then pull the same exact string another 2 inches and have the other end move 4 more inches. To do this, you would need a complicated system of pulleys and cams and whatnot, which all adds a lot of weight to an aircraft, which is a big no-no in aircraft design. Higher performance and larger aircraft use assisted control systems and since they usually have a little more power available, they may have mechanical systems that allow them to have a curved response. Here's a good page that discusses this, with a cool picture of a portion of an F-15's flight control linkages: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WX4wJ_9qjS0/TMBbv0J9TTI/AAAAAAAAAGs/q7y_L8ejCKY/s1600/F-15_Lateral_Control-1.jpg
  5. Depends on the aircraft. If the control surfaces that are linked to controls with cables and pulleys, the "curve" would be linear, but the effectiveness would be dependent on the airspeed. Imagine if you're flying at 100 kts and you move the stick left a certain amount, it takes a certain amount of force and it moves the left aileron up and the right aileron down a certain amount that gives you a specific roll rate. Now if you're going 300 kts, that same amount of input with move the control surfaces the same amount as before, but aerodynamically, the lift (rolling) force generated would be greater (9 times greater assuming conditions are the same as before) and the force required to move the stick would be greater also. So the only difference you would notice would be more force required to move the stick, and more sensitivity at higher airspeeds. If you introduce a computer controlled/assisted system, the computer can have any type of curve desired. This can be done in many ways, but with a typical fly-by-wire system there is a curve of some sort built in and the system will see what the pilot "asks for" and will move the control surfaces to do that. In doing this, if the pilot wants a roll rate of X° per second at 100 kts, he/she moves the stick a specific amount, then if they want that same roll rate at 400 kts, he/she moves the stick that same amount, but the computer will decide how much control surface to actually use to get that same roll rate. That way the pilot doesn't have to think too hard...
  6. Make sure you change the pod FOV with china hat forward. I had the same issue, especially with the IR images are longer range, now that I've figured out to change the FOV the images became much sharper.
  7. My throttle base is 6 3/32" wide by 10 11/16" long by 2 1/4" tall. That's measuring to the outside of the flanges where the mounting screw holes are located. The stick base (without the base plate) is 4 5/16" in diameter, but also account for the cable that comes out of the center front of the stick base. The stick base is 2 9/16" tall to the second silver ring on top where the eight screws are visible All these measurements are only accurate to a certain degree, I can't guarantee they're accurate to the 32nd or 64th of an inch, but if you made all your measurements a bit strong to allow for error, you should be fine.
  8. You can switch from A-G to standby than right back to A-G. It re-centers it but removes it as SOI. For those of us that don't have a china hat switch to use yet...
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