Switching aircraft

[Robin]

We are rebuilding a Frasco sim, taking out the old, & for various reasons, we will be using FS2004.

The sim is a Harvard/Texan simulator, so we will be using FS2004 with a suitable plane add-on.

I also will be adding in a Beechcraft Mentor.

So, my question is asking the best way to switch between aircrafts by using a push button on the dash panel. We want to minimise the use of keyboards.

I was thinking of a few pushbuttons that, when pressed, will select an aircraft of choice, OR selecting a flight.

Any ideas? 

[Pete Dowson]

1 minute ago, Robin Meyerowitz said:

my question is asking the best way to switch between aircrafts by using a push button on the dash panel. We want to minimise the use of keyboards.

I was thinking of a few pushbuttons that, when pressed, will select an aircraft of choice, OR selecting a flight.

Aircraft are only specifically selectable through the normal aircraft selection menus. You can load flights by writing the flight filename to an FSUIPC offset (see offset 3F00).  So your best way would be to set up appropriate pre-prepared flights for each aircraft and select them that way.

You can either write a program interfacing to FSUIPC to do this, or have one or more Lua plug-ins doing the same, responding to assigned buttons or switches.

Pete

 

[Robin]

Thanks, Pete, I thought that's the best way to do it. Now to study up lua's.

Thanks for your prompt reply, have a great weekend.

Cheers, Robin