Nifty Links for Flightsimming

[Wayne Pierce]

Greetings,
I found this link to a nifty program which I now use for bringing up my charts in FS. I have a hard copy of all the charts for the USA, silly me I bought them. The ASA charts with binders which they are kind of nifty to have in my dedicated flight room.

This is the link to the Freeware program.

http://code.google.com/p/fscode/wiki/PDFKneeboard

It is very simple to install and use with a few keyboard commands. You can load only the charts you need and bring them up, zoom in and out rotate and flip thru them very simply and fast.

Now, you do need downloaded charts in a .PDF form to make this work. I did this from the FAA site, http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/online/d_tpp
I have amassed a lot of downloaded charts when in my free time and nothing else to do, all the charts for all the places I may want to fly. Also there are for sale charts already in a PDF form from some companies.
Well anyway here it is. Happy Flying!

[Norberto Rivera]

Awesome find!!! Printing out charts gets expensive and screen space is always at a bit of a premium! I'm definitely going to try this one out.

Edit: The PDF kneeboard is nice enough, but the RealTrim.dll is just awesome! I mapped the trim button to button "E" (top button on the throttle quad of the X-52) and I was able to land a 707 at <100 ft/min without much effort. Before I was using one of the toggle buttons to trim up/down and I still kept that mapping for fine adjustments, but that little module is just awesome. It's amazing how much easier it is to fly a properly trimmed airplane.

[Norberto Rivera]

Did you set the button you wanted?

You have to move your yoke or joystick and manually pitch the aircraft to the angle that you want, then press whatever button you assigned to trigger the trim and smoothly center the yoke/stick. The effect varies from aircraft to aircraft but once you get a feel for it you can set your trim quickly and without much effort.

To set the button click on the "Modules" menu in FS and expand the AutoTrim menu. There's an option in there to set it up.

I don't know what to tell you about the kneeboard. I just looked at a couple of charts and closed it without much tinkering.