Personalizing Starship
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With over 200 hours now in Starship, I've been personalizing it with some cold and dark configuration tweaks beyond what you get with the saved state. It's how I imagine I would leave the plane after a flight if I owned one in real life.
Here's how I have things set up:
- Aux Tank fuel level = 0 (I never land with fuel in the aux tanks, I don't want any when I spawn in. This was much harder to do than it should have been)
- I wanted better control of fuel loading, so changed the loading increment to 5 gallons from 10
- Set the transponder presets to 1200,7000,7600,7700
- Alt Avionics Blower switch ON
- Strobe Light Low ON
- Strobe Light High ON (stays off until the Low light is extinguished)
- COM2 set to Guard 121.5
- COM radios set to 8.33 kHz spacing
There is one that eludes any attempt at pre-setting:
- Pilot COM2 Receive switch ON at the audio panel
I will say that getting some of this to work has been a real challenge, and in several cases I had to resort to external scripting in AAO due to some truly mysterious behaviors, but with the experience comes a deep appreciation for the level of detail that @Black-Square has put into this simulation.
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What a delightful message! Thank you for your appreciation. Starship was truly my passion project. With 200 hours flying it recreationally, you probably have quadruple the time I have. That's the curse of the aircraft developer. I only get to fly my aircraft when they are unfinished or broken.
I'm sure you probably already found this, but the event for the COM2 receive is
(>K:COM2_RECEIVE_SELECT), and the variable to detect its position is(A:COM RECEIVE EX1:2, bool). Beyond that, I'm not sure what else I can recommend, because those variables and events are maintained by the simulator, not me. As with most things in software, almost anything is possible, though! -
@DrZGard the only things I have working in modded files right now are the transponder presets and changing the fuel increment from 10 to 5.
I have tried the others in modded files, and I think they should work but they don't, either as a separate mod or modding the files directly in the aircraft folder (which I hate doing). I should mention this is in 2024 SU3.
