Where the hell am I going ?

[whoarmongar]

Jez, Shame the coursesetters hid behind the goddam stick, My head hurts with all this stuff, Gonna go and practice on a parked spitfire, see if i can figure all this out. Thanks for the crash course Bando, your info is good and the link helped a lot

[whoarmongar]

Well Bando i just tried it and it works ! But its so easy to set it 180* out, and so awkward to use. Stick has to be hard back and over to get a good view of compass, then you have to fiddle with the knobs etc to set it, doing this in flight will be imposible I would say in realistic mode ie no autopilot. I cant believe the testers ever tried this before game release. It would be so much better if in the "glance at dashboard" view didnt include the flight stick which obscures the view of these vital bits of kit.

[bando]

Well I got a "coolie hat" from a game pad assigned for that. Left/right sets increases/decreases the course setter, up/down does the DG.
After some practice one can do it fairly quick, even in flight.
I edited the post on simHQ to state that the "train track should be aligned with the North side towards the crossbarred white line.

I hope this all makes some sense.

[whoarmongar]

Thats a good idea, I got 9 buttons 3 axis and two coolie hats on my joystick and I ran out of buttons to assign ages ago. I use trakIr so my top coolie is mix/prop which is handy. Im seriously considering canabalising an old controler to make a "dashboard" esp for when I start using the multi engine aircraft.

[bando]

I got 2 usb hubs full of that. 2 throttles (saitek and a CH quadrant) MSFFB2, rudder pedals, joypad, track ir.
Lots of sliders and buttons, and still I'm having problems assigning (and remembering *sigh*)

Great sim ain't it

[whoarmongar]

Im a sucker for buggy PC games, remember Rowan BoB ? buggy as hell , I loved it. Falcon4 ? Bugfest. I spent hours on it, Hidden and dangerous ? blue screen hell , I was obsessed with it. Oh and dont mention ANY of the silent hunter series.

[Blackdog_kt]

Well, to be fair, even if you start with a pre-set gyro it will drift over time and you will have to reset it anyway, so take a minute and learn to do it.

You don't even have to be directly looking at it, just click on it to align the course setter bars with the compass "line". You can also click with the stick in the way, it will still work and you still get the on-screen text telling you at what heading it's set. If it still bothers you trying to click on it, assign a couple of keys to do it and just watch until the yellow course selector lines are parallel to the white compass line.

I was confused because i didn't know how to read it until another forum user explained it in another thread, now i have no problems with it. The linked thread in SimHQ shows how it's done and it's very simple.

In short:
1) Align the yellow line of the course selector so that it's parallel with the main compass line (the big one), taking care to place the marking for North on the course selector ring on the edge of the compass line that has the small "T" on it.
2) Read the resulting heading from the on-screen text.
3) Turn the directional gyro to match it.
4) Repeat every 10-15 minutes or after violent maneuvers.