Was having trouble with ILS approach. Last I remember, I thought I had it figured out but apparently not. I couldn’t do it consistently. Recently getting back into X-Plane and ILS approach, which appears to just be a simple recipe, but it was still giving me problems. Just followed “X-Plane 11 – Cessna 172 Autopilot-iKboVHkbnQ4” …
Category Archives: X-Plane
X-Plane 11 setup
There’s actually quite a bit of setup required. Reinstall upgraded scenery, aircraft, airports and more. Re-calibrate the joystick and reassign keys to my liking. But mine is nothing compared to some users who have lots of add-ons. I needed to get Little Navmap working again, a great free plugin, that among many other things, allows …
Hard drive migration
Replaced my 1TB drive with a 2 TB drive. The one TB drive still can be used for storage. Bumped up home from 300GB to 500GB. Will install my backup distro with 500GB home also. So reinstalled Linux Mint with newest version 20.1 and it still has x3270 and c3270 terminal emulators! So there Manjaro. …
Computer problems – Pt. 3
Now perhaps my computer problems were not the SATA connector on the motherboard. I sure hope not, because if one fails…how soon before others? I say this because in the efforts of installing the new HD, I needed to shuffle drives around in an attempt to save any important data. So I was able to …
X-Plane, game or simulator?
IMHO it’s a sim. Some argue that it’s a game. I feel it’s a SIM because there isn’t scoring and it tries to model actual flight physics. There are no objectives to make kills or score points like a game. The main objective is to fly from point A to point B by applying flying …
Linux, Steam & X-Plane
Being a longtime Linux guy I didn’t really think too much about games or sims. That changed a few years ago thanks to Valve/Steam. I really appreciate what Valve has done for Linux gaming. When I saw X-Plane 10 offered in Steam a few years ago, I knew I had to get it. When I …
X-Plane…wrong assumption
Well I finally finished downloading X-Plane 11 from Steam. I was able to compare this freshly downloaded version on Manjaro, with the one I’d been using on Linux Mint and learned a lesson. Based on other airports I used, I wrongly assumed that something was wrong with KDEN (Denver International Airport). If I had to …
X-Plane and KDEN
I’ve whined, complained and posted about my perceived lack of X-Plane’s support…but there’s a very good chance I was wrong. The jury for me is still out. I’ve removed those posts, so I won’t look any dumber, than I already look. I did say in my last post that I hope I was wrong and …
Julia/X-Plane scenery organizer
More work on my Julia X-Plane scenery organizer. Created a SQLite ICAO airport database [54,000+ records] from a csv file I found on github. The Julia SQLite handeling has changed since my last use, it now also requires dataframes! See 10/12/2018 where I talked about dataframes. Because X-Plane has no requirements on scenery file, file …
Finished downloading X-Plane 11
Finally finished downloading X-Plane 11 from Steam, Did a couple GB each day. First thing I did was backup. I had X-Plane 10 but didn’t do too much with it because I was always fighting the controls, even after adjusting trim (aileron & rudder). I’d usually use auto-pilot and make small adjustments from there to …