Last month i mustered up the courage to make the move to FSX. I say that because on one hand, i knew that i had to do it sometime. On the other hand,i also knew it was a daunting task. Everything was working fine on my FS9 setup. Indeed the machine was slowing down. But the sim was very much usable. I had wrap around visuals, triple projection, most of the systems modeled.. Was there any need to change? Why disturb something that was not broken??
I would have to purchase some of the add-ons again, traffic, weather, terrain, airports – well no – airports i could use as is because the purchase came with FS9 and FSX versions.
My custom configured Jetline GT2 arrived last Thursday. Its a monster of a machine (described in a different post). I couldnt wait to install all of my software and hardware on to the new system. Within a few hours all of the software had been installed.
Now i had the task of taking all of my configuration files and port them over. I didnt want to redo all of the configuration one thing at a time. The bulk of it would have been configuring the forward overhead switches and annunciators.
I began to take the Prosim737 config file and began to adapt it to the new system. I had downloaded the May version of Prosim737 and hadnt installed it on my FS9 system. I did one and it worked. I began to cut and paste the others. It was going to be a tedious task. So i loaded up the software and decided that i would just do it once more on the config screen itself.
When i began to do that, I discovered a “A” button next to switches and indicators… Hadnt seen that before. So i tried it… Well… It worked like a charm. Click a switch. Click the A button next to the functionality that you want to associate it with.
The auto-detection feature with indicators is even better. 7 passes and no more – to detect the right annunciator, i have FDS SYS3 enabled directly on Prosim737. The algorithm uses elimination to hone in on the right annunciator.
Using the auto-confguration feature, i had the entire overhead configured in less than an 45 mins.
Hats off to Marty and Hanne for relentlessly innovating thier product. Most importantly, despite thier relentless innovation, they produce reliable software each release.
CPJ
