Options Screen

In the Options Screen you can configure various options which will affect your XPax experience. 
 

General

• Minimum Cruise Altitude: The altitude entered here is used to determine when to activate the "Cruise" flight state.  You must level-off at an altitude AT or ABOVE this value for cruise to properly trigger.  Leveling off below this altitude will keep the "Climbout" state in effect (i.e. during preliminary altitude assignments during departure).

• Play audio: Enable this to have audio played back

• Play video: Enable this to have video played back

• Show in-sim text messages: When enabled, you'll receive various text messages within FS showing point deductions and status updates

• Use metric vs. imperial units: Click this to have weights shown in kgs instead of lbs

• FS Version: Choose either FSX or FS9.  You can also have both versions installed and simply change this option each session depending on which version is running

• Automatically connect to FS: When enabled, XPax will attempt to automatically connect to FS.  May cause a performance hit on some systems (especially networked configurations where FS is not yet running)

• Automatically open doors: When enabled, the flight attendants will automatically open the doors when boarding or deplaning starts.  Likewise, the doors will be automatically closed when boarding or deplaning finishes

• Automatically start boarding: When enabled, boarding will start automatically (as soon as aircraft is parked with parking brake set)

• Boarding time each passenger: This slider allows you to choose how long each passenger takes to board or deplane (in seconds)

• Approval reduction sensitivity: The higher this slider is set, the more careful you need to be to not upset passengers and reduce your approval rating.  You can disable the approval reduction system by setting this slider to zero.

The Cancel button will cancel any changes made in the general options area and restore the last used settings.

The Apply button will save your changes.  All options changes are instant however they must be saved with the Apply button (or by closing XPax).

Pilot in Command
 

Simply enter the PIC name for yourself here in the text box and hit the Create New button to establish a new PIC record.  Your record will be saved and persistent but can be recreated at any time with this button.

Audio Content

The Audio Content section is very flexible and allows you to do several things:

• Preview audio

• Create new audio recordings

• Create new audio "sets" called variants

• Refresh the list

• Select a new active audio set for a particular role

• Inhibit a particular audio set (prevent it from being randomly chosen at startup)

Audio Content List: This is a standard tree-view that you can expand.  The first node (left-most) is the role/category (i.e. Cabin, Captain or Gate).  The second node is the variant (or "set").  The third and final node is the audio event/file for that role and variant.

Certain colors are used to differentiate between different types of content items.  Items shown in Cyan are events that do not currently have an audio file.  Green events indicate a valid audio file exists.  Variants can be Green, indicating that they are valid and available for random selection, or Red, indicating that they are inhibited and will not be chosen for random selection.  The currently active variant for any given role is shown White on Green.

To preview audio, simple select a third-node event (i.e. Captain->Default->PrepareforTakeoff) and press the Play button.  The audio will be played.

To create a new recording, first highlight the desired third-node audio event.  Then press the Rec button and a sound recorder will automatically launch.  Record the audio then exit the sound recorder and answer "Yes" to save the file.  The file name/location will be automatically set.  USE CAUTION when recording new audio as any event chosen will be OVERWRITTEN.

To create a new variant, first highlight the desired first-node role/category.  Then click the New Variant button and an unnamed variant will be shown in the list.  Audio events will be automatically shown, and they can now be selected and recorded.

To refresh the list of audio content items simply press the Refresh button.

To select a new active audio set, select the second-node variant and press the Activate button.  This set will now be used for this role.

To inhibit a particular audio set, select the second-node variant and press the Inhibit button.  Each press of the Inhibit button will toggle the inhibit status on or off.  When inhibited, a set will not be chosen randomly during startup.  This can be useful to disable certain sets (or all sets in a particular role).

Please note that we allow (and encourage!) users to share their own created audio sets with each other.  Remember however to never share the default included XPax sets as this would be a copyright/license violation.

Video Content

The Video Content section is similar to the audio section and allows you to:

• Preview Video

• Import new video files

• Create new video variants

• Refresh the list

• Select a new active video set for a particular role/category

• Inhibit a particular video set (prevent it from being randomly chosen at startup)

Video Content List: This is a standard tree-view that you can expand.  The first (left-most) node is the role/category (i.e. Cabin, Captain or Gate).  The second node is the variant (or "set").  The third and final node is the video event/file for that role and variant.

Certain colors are used to differentiate between different types of content items.  Items shown in Cyan are events that do not currently have an video file.  Green events indicate a valid video file exists.  Variants can be Green, indicating that they are valid and available for random selection, or Red, indicating that they are inhibited and will not be chosen for random selection.  The currently active variant for any given role is shown White on Green.

To preview video, simple select a third-node event (i.e. Gate->Default->General) and press the Play button.  The video will be played.

To import a new video, first highlight the desired third-node video event.  Then press the Import button and choose the file to import for this event.  USE CAUTION when importing new video as any event chosen will be OVERWRITTEN.

To create a new variant, first highlight the desired first-node role/category.  Then click the New Variant button and an unnamed variant will be shown in the list.  Video events will be automatically shown, and they can now be selected and recorded.

To refresh the list of video content items simply press the Refresh button.

To select a new active video set, select the second-node variant and press the Activate button.  This set will now be used for this role.

To inhibit a particular video set, select the second-node variant and press the Inhibit button.  Each press of the Inhibit button will toggle the inhibit status on or off.  When inhibited, a set will not be chosen randomly during startup.  This can be useful to disable certain sets (or all sets in a particular role).