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Title: Back & Up View
Post by: Hap on February 04, 2011, 07:51:05 AM
Weird thing here.  Page up always worked fine in conjuction with #5 on keypad and #2 to move headrest out of the way for a back up view.  With this new relatively cheap Microsoft keyboard, they don't.  I've not reassigned any keys.  Anyone run into this?
Title: Re: Back & Up View
Post by: GNucks on February 04, 2011, 11:56:00 AM
I've run into this same problem. I believe for me the magic numbers are 5 and 6. So when I am pressing 5 and 6 on the numpad at the same time, I can't adjust my head position. It's no more than an inconvenience to me because I've mapped "Look Up" to a button on my joystick. So instead of pressing 5, 6 and Page Up for example, I press the button on my joystick, 6 and Page Up. I think the problem is more of a Windows thing not wanting to accept too many simultaneous key inputs or something. I don't know.
Title: Re: Back & Up View
Post by: CRYPTIC on February 04, 2011, 02:33:08 PM
 Did you know you can save a head position once you have the view you want hold it and  hit the f10 key. This will save that position you can do this for all your views.
Title: Re: Back & Up View
Post by: GNucks on February 04, 2011, 03:14:29 PM
Being a member since 2002 and having two-thousand posts, I assumed he did.  :o
Title: Re: Back & Up View
Post by: Hap on February 04, 2011, 08:05:02 PM
I've run into this same problem. I believe for me the magic numbers are 5 and 6. So when I am pressing 5 and 6 on the numpad at the same time, I can't adjust my head position. It's no more than an inconvenience to me because I've mapped "Look Up" to a button on my joystick. So instead of pressing 5, 6 and Page Up for example, I press the button on my joystick, 6 and Page Up. I think the problem is more of a Windows thing not wanting to accept too many simultaneous key inputs or something. I don't know.

So, map some buttons for fubared keyboard functions?  Is that right?  Never tried it, but i will.  Thanks!
Title: Re: Back & Up View
Post by: Hap on February 05, 2011, 07:06:28 PM
something else, formerly, page up brought the airplane's frame down.  nothing else.  now, at the end on the declination of the airframe, it moves towards me almost like a zoom.  anyone else have this?
Title: Re: Back & Up View
Post by: Shane on February 07, 2011, 06:20:33 AM
something else, formerly, page up brought the airplane's frame down.  nothing else.  now, at the end on the declination of the airframe, it moves towards me almost like a zoom.  anyone else have this?

Yeah - there's no "stop."
Title: Re: Back & Up View
Post by: Bruv119 on February 07, 2011, 08:46:49 AM
something else, formerly, page up brought the airplane's frame down.  nothing else.  now, at the end on the declination of the airframe, it moves towards me almost like a zoom.  anyone else have this?

agree only in certain planes though but it is annoying,  messes with your normal shooting position.
Title: Re: Back & Up View
Post by: warhed on February 07, 2011, 01:56:30 PM
Planes that have round cockpit glass causes the extra movement, bubble canopies.  HTC changed it so your head could go all the way to the glass. 
Title: Re: Back & Up View
Post by: Soulyss on February 07, 2011, 03:59:27 PM
something else, formerly, page up brought the airplane's frame down.  nothing else.  now, at the end on the declination of the airframe, it moves towards me almost like a zoom.  anyone else have this?

I believe this is caused by an update in how the cockpits were modeled.  On older models the space you could move your head position through was a box, this resulted in some generous positioning depending on the shape of the canopy.  In some of the new plane models this is no longer the case, the space now more closely follows the contours of the canopy.  So you're hitting page up and the head is moving up till it hits the canopy then following the contour depending on the angle.