A short heli practice session tonight. I decided to tour Mons St Michel. I'm seeing slow but steady progress at hovering. The landing was a bit rough but acceptable ^^
In VR, the water looks a little too calm (but MSFS is really hungry in VR). The 3D model for Mont St Michel isquite good I'd say but felt a lot smaller seen from the sky than in real life. Still, it's cool to do virtual sightseeing in a pinch.

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#RoundTheWorldIn80Legs #MSFS2024 Leg 42/80

ZPJH Xishuangbanna Gasa - VLLB Luang Prabang Intl

Diamond Twinstar action today as we left Yunnan, over the border into Laos

will need to do more exploring on the way out but man, the ILS approach for runway 23 has you coming in over the Mekong River and it rules, actually

i've been messing with a little script someone else wrote that creates a virtual xbox 360 controller where the X and Y joystick are controlled by a mouse. i modified it so you can control both virtual sticks with 2 different mice and left and right click of the first mouse also map to A and B. it handles relative values from devices as well as absolute values (such as what DualShock controllers use). it's been awesome on #microslop flight sim 2020, i use my smartwatch to control the collective and throttles in a natural way and a PS4 controller attached to a board which is itself taped to a big bowl to control rudder/tail rotor.

i ordered some actual flight pedals but it's good i still worked on this after ordering because the seller on ali might be doing something fucky, they told me the pedal isn't made anymore and to cancel the order. i'm not gonna do anything and see what happens.

repo if interested: https://github.com/tyzbit/msfs_mouse_yoke

(this code is not high quality, nor is it really intended to be right now)

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#RoundTheWorldIn80Legs #MSFS2024 Leg 41/80

ZPLJ Lijiang Sanyi - ZPJH Xishuangbanna Gasa

Took the Baron 58 down to the far south of Yunnan province in China this afternoon, to Banna, a place that borders both Laos (where we head to after this) and Myanmar

absolutely gorgeous part of the world, imo

VR controllers in microsoft flight simulator 2020 are rough (most helicopters do not support them, moving knobs and dials often require non-intuitive movements*). i like helicopters so i have been working on some way to control the collective (a stick that moves kind of like an emergency brake). i've looked at controllers, microcontrollers, tons of software, all of it with downsides like taking up physical space, cost, possible incompatibility with bazzite

well i remembered yesterday i have WearMouse, an app for smartwatches to pair to devices and control a mouse and it's incredible. i mapped the Y axis of the mouse to the collective and moving my arm translates to almost exact movements of the collective. i say almost because in typical microsoft flight sim fashion, there's a forced deadzone and movement is limited to one speed (so whipping my arm up barely moves the collective).

luckily a kind person made https://github.com/matiaspedelhez/msfs_mouse_yoke which directly translates mouse movements to a virtual gamepad axis (which feature more functionality for tweaks in microsoft flight sim) and now it's perfect.

before, i had a lot of trouble maintaining a hover near the ground because i'd always have too much or too little collective. immediately after switching to this, i'm landing delicately and purposefully. i still need to get some real pedals for the tail rotor because i want realism in a practical package and a thumbstick on the quest controller isn't realistic enough, but i feel so much more immersed and accurate.

one day, hopefully, i'll get my vive ultimate trackers working in bazzite.

* for reference, the two helicopters in 2020 I found that fully support VR controllers are the Guimbal G2 and the Chinook (that I think is a bonus from buying 2024). i checked 2024 premium deluxe and the list was:

and possibly the one that looks like a biblically accurate quadcopter angel drone, but i don't care about that one.

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