Fallon-Nevada Theater discussion
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Having said I can’t configure my HOTAS for flight in GE, I gave it another try. Interestingly, I am getting some functionality from my Warthog stick, and can crudely “fly” Google Earth Pro with it now. I think the last time I tried, I might have been using my Cougar, and now I’ve got a Warthog stick. Maybe that has something to do with it?
I am using a Warthog SSC and a Cougar TQS. Google Earth doesn’t recognize my TQS, so I have to awkwardly push PageUp and PageDown to try and regulate the throttle. But I can roll and pitch with the Warthog SSC. There is a pitch-down bias, which I can’t trim out with the trim hat, because the trim hat has a crude mouselook function in GE.
A brief digression about my Warthog/Cougar HOTAS, in case it’s relevant… I originally used just a Cougar (TQS and SSC). I bought a Warthog stick and a TUSBA (R2, IIIRC), and I’m sure the TUSBA works well, but when I hooked mine up, my FCR radar cursor kept drifting on the MFD, and I couldn’t find any way to stop it. Then I took the TUSBA out of the system, and now I have my Cougar TQS+SSC hooked up to my computer again, AND a Warthog SSC. The Cougar throttle and the Warthog stick are what’s sitting on my desk, with the Cougar stick sitting on the floor next to my computer. Bizarre, I admit. Once I did that, though, the microstick drift went away, and the radar cursor worked fine again, just like when I was using a pure Cougar HOTAS.
(I should start a thread about my weird “Cougar SSC as a pass-through adapter” setup someday, because I’ll bet I configured my TUSBA wrong. There’s probably something that can be done to stop that microstick drift, but that’s another thread for another day.)
At any rate, I was pleasantly surprised just now that I could fly in Google Earth with my Warthog stick, albeit somewhat crudely, and without the BMS flight model or cockpit, and without my TQS or TrackIR functionality, sadly. Oh, how wonderful it would be if I could have had TrackIR! Still, it was pretty fun!
Naturally, before I turned on the flight-sim mode in GE, I went out to Panamint Valley, and got myself positioned over Hwy 190 west of Father Crowley point, nose pointed roughly east, to set up for the “Jedi Transition”. Man, am I glad I know that part of the world the way I do - it really helps navigation! The first few tries, I found myself over the middle of Star Wars canyon without properly dropping in to it from the knickpoint at the west end. Then I got my lineup figured out correctly, and I know to point myself at the part of the Panamints that I know real well, off in the distance, around Slims Peak and the areas just to the south of it. That’s a good long-distance lineup target for SWC. After that, I managed to roll into the canyon, and I only hit the wall once or twice, lol!
Oh man, I wish I were flying BMS itself, with Google Earth outside the cockpit bubble - that would be such a sweet ride. The trip through the canyon is a little wobbly for me, of course, nothing like the way the real pilots fly it. But it looked pretty good in GE, with nice detail in the steeply-dipping Paleozoic section, and in the capping basalt, and in that one basaltic feeder dike that’s so prominent from the viewing areas near Father Crowley pt. That was neat!
Then I went over to the Panamints and flew the Pleasant Cyn / South Park Cyn loop, and around Ballarat a few times, then down to the Briggs Mine and up Redlands Cyn to Butte Valley, then down past the old Barker Ranch and out Goler Wash. Then up to Saline Valley to check out the hot springs, the Lippincott road, and the Racetrack, and then some semi-lost cross-country navigation near Hunter Mtn and Lee Flat until I got back to SWC and made another run down that.
In short - I’m pleased that the Warthog stick somehow works in GE, despite my bizarre Franken-HOTAS setup! Lots of fun flying around the desert areas between Owens Valley and Death Valley. Good 'ol R-2508 complex… what a cool part of the world!
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If you Google up the R-2508 Range User’s Guide (it’s available) the coords for the Sidewinder Low Level MTR are in there…including the “Jedi Transition” that takes you through “Star Wars Canyon”. Very nice MTR around the 2508.
To further digress…I use a Warthog as an SSC and a Cougar TQS that converted to USB and Saitec Combat Pro Rudder pedals, but on a Mac - yes, a MAC! Works really well with the Mac version of FAF. It’s not really that hard to convert the TQS to direct USB using a Bodner interface board, but once you do that it becomes it’s own controller - but like the TUSBA R2 (I have one of those as well) the upgrade from 10 to 12 bit resolution is a huge improvement for the TQS. I’m presently stuck as to if I want to use the TUSBA R2 or another Bodner converted TQS in my cockpit project now.
Sounds like I need to take another run at the GE F-16…just for kix.
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That improvement to 12-bit resolution sounds really worthwhile. That sounds like a plenty-good-enough reason to revisit the TUSBA R2 and its setup, or the Bodner mod.
Rather than continue my hijacking of this Nevada theater thread, I’m starting a blog (here on benchmarksims.org) about my process of learning about all things HOTAS. If I figure out things like the TUSBA R2, I’ll post what I learn there. I might one day also try getting my TQS and rudder pedals to work in GE… it can perhaps be done!..
https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/8kji5a/google_earth_flight_sim_using_your_flight/
Have fun in R-2508 in GE! It has become a daily ritual for me, as I practice flying the route (described above) more smoothly.
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Sorry my dear friends, just woke up with this dream….Wow!! Only im my DreAms!!
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You are not alone, bud… it’s just the stuff I’m daydreaming all the time, you know.
And this theater must become a real thing ASAP!
With best regards.
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Oh my god, oh my god, no wayyyy!!!
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Oh… “Don’t shoot me. Please. This time, at least.”
Touching. :lol:
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Keep a closer look at the screenshot section…
It sees u.
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Yeah my friend, we need develop this project
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Yeah my friend, we need develop this project
Agree. Deeply.
I believe that we can do so much with this theater, and not a exercise (‘-Flag’) campaign only, I mean.I’m here and I volunteer since now to give a little helping hand to all those who will.
With best regards.
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Watch the vid:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12ogKTiyR-yMcPoVl7l_n89sA3wtvgrgF
This all started in 2002, I just found my updated files to BMS_Add-On_Nevada from 2012 with the expanded terrain.
I MIGHT be inclined to share them if Y’all get organized as a Theater Dev group.
Credits for the vid and all the files……Srry M8’s I have forgotten who,when and where…raise your hand and credit will be given where credit is due.
This is NOT PMC Nevada…far from it…(It actually work’s…LOL)
Lemme know when you organize,
tired demer -
Awesome!!!
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Dear demer,
you’re never tired when it’s time to make something for good, just as we all here learned well about you.
On my little own, I learned not a few important rules about how being in a Community. That yours of today was one.
High respect to you. I already know that this theater, when it comes, will be due to you and not for a little part.
(some Vipers with asymmetrical load-out in that video… how interesting that, hhmmmm)
With best regards. -
That of mine above premitted as due…
this is addressed to all the good guys of good will all around here: Gen. demer has spoken.
Who is with me in accepting this challenge, then?With best regards.
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Wow, what a positive morning, love it!!! Good luck guys!!!
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No news?
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And who told you that?
Better asking it to the guys involved in this project, instead.
Also from me: any news here?
With best regards.
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Nevada project, Never Dead!! I mean I dont know, LOL…… Let’s keep them motivated…