Things that make you go...splat.

[Karaya One]

After getting my AR$$ handed to me for 4 days now, I can still say it is good to be back in the air  

I got depressed with AH last night, downloaded the new WB 2.75 and got even more depressed. Warbirds may be a more refined product than AH (at its current stage) but the FM (compared to AH) is a joke.

However, I did note that Warbirds still has a much better autopilot setup and I am curious why Hitech has chosen his current path regarding this matter. As listed below in another thread, people have problems with the current autopilot and it is causing them unecessary deaths. There are times when it just does NOT disengage. Not sure if the problems are HW/SW related but I did not have this problem in WB's last night.

I finally got my view system down. Mucho thanks to all the AH pilots who sent me their advice/jstick files. However, another thing is making me scratch my head....the zoom view system.

I understand the purpose of the zoom feature. However, it does not work properly with the gunsight. Let me explain...my current forward cockpit view is set to "all the way back and up." That gives me a panoramic view, including my guages. When my seat is set in this position and then I switch to zoom mode, the Zoom is not exactly zooming. On the flip side, if I go into the zoom mode and magnify all the way in on the recticle and save the head position, it effects the location of my regular forward view. This should not be, IMO. Defeats the purpose of having a dedicated zoom. You cannot zoom in on the recticle for sharpshooting without effecting your normal view and on the flip side if you are seated to far back you cannot get close enough to the target recticle.

If there is a work-around for this someone please inform me.

If not, then maybe their should be a recticle zoom that is independant from the other views so we can customize it to our shooting style.

K1

[214CaveJ]

I leave the default seat position (no view keys pressed) in its default location.  Then I press keypad8, which is the same view, and move it to where I want it.  This way I have my panaramic view when I want it, and I can flip the zoom toggle on or off as needed with the switch on me stick for sharp shooting w/o either one interferring with the other.

[TT]

 Pressing the x key will release the auto instantly. I use it all the time.

[llbm_MOL]

Hey K1

I have the same problem with the Auto-pilot you have. I prefere the WB's auto myself but not the rest of the game.

Let me tell you what happened to me.
I'm flying along useing the auto-climb when I notice an F4U closeing fast on my 6. I yank on the stick and nothing happens, I yank harder as the con is getting closer and closer...nothing, I yank REAL hard and it finally come out only to give me my first message I have ever recieved for moveing my stick to fast. Needless to say I couldnt avoid the F4U or even fly for the next however many seconds which were long enough to get my bellybutton shot off! Oh well I just use the auto Pilot when I am VERY sure there are no lurking cons around. Otherwise I keep my stick well in hand heheheehe.......

LLBM OUT!!!!!!!!!

[MANDOBLE]

From my point of view the autopilot and
the triming itself should be at some point
improved. These are several ideas about
this topic:
- Auto-climb is in fact auto-speed.
  Implementing "auto-climb" the same way
  we have auto-speed (.climb 1900 or
  .climb -1900 to climb or dive).
- Setting up keys to center rudder, aileron
  and elevator trims.
- New dot commands to set up "on the fly" the
  sensibility of the trimming keys and the
  sensibility of the "auto-pilot off" related
  to the joy movement.
- Auto-angle is auto-vertical-angle, not a
  real auto-angle.

This last idea is not related to autopilot
nor trimming, but to joy configurations.
It should be great to be able to save the
Joy calibration conf with a name and to have
a dot command to load and activate it. Even
better to be able to assing a particular
joy calib conf file to a key. This way we
can have different calibrations for
different planes and for different speeds.
And we can activate them while flying with a
simple key press.