Would these features be hard to program for?

Question

Hello the X-Plane community!

Presently my sole interest is in how easily X-Plane facilitates smooth learning performance in instrument flight.

Would these program feature ideas be hard to provide for in the Buttons: Basic items offered/found under the Menu/Settings/Joystick & Equipment menu?

1. At least 5 customizable - Pitch Trim preset buttons.
   1. MULTIPLE PRESET BUTTONS FOR PITCH TRIM  -  
      1. In instrument flight, it would be convenient & desirable to have preset trim positions that you could quickly marry with a known power setting that could be used for:
         1. ONE for Takeoff & Go Around climb configurations
         2. TWO for Level flight in both economy and speed flight planning considerations, and, 
         3. TWO for Instrument approach speed descent and max rate of descent configurations
2. ALLOW DESIGNATION OF A 1/2 EFFECT BUTTON USED IN COMBINATION WITH OTHER FLIGHT DYNAMIC BUTTONS 
   1. X-Plane does an excellent job of artificially replicating flight dynamics.  It isn't absolutely perfect but is "way-good enough".  For my "hands-off" trim preferences, using  a joystick designed to use button clicks, I find the pitch trim often lands/settles somewhere in between my preferred setting.
      1. One click up & it slowly descends, while 1 click down yields a slow climb.
         1. Why would it be hard to let me hold down a proposed new "1/2 effect" memory preset button while I give the flight environment one click of pitch trim to impose 1/2 of the flight environment effect that 1 stand alone click of the same button otherwise would yield? 
   2. HOW/WHY ARE THESE REQUESTS RELEVANT TO TEACHING INSTRUMENT FLIGHT TECHNIQUES AND PROCESS? 
      1. If the student gets the point that never failing to remember how important trimming the airplane is to a successful approach to reducing performance stressors, I'd like to think this would be an appreciated programming option.
      2. I know that you can fly using the X-Plane autopilot & have the program do all this trim-stabilization work for you, but, in the real world, instrument flight students don't benefit from blind reliance on avionics and can't exclusively use them for their FAA check ride in their pursuit of the real world Instrument flight certificate/rating.
         1. Once they learn to accurately process/sequence handle the environment in a quiet/stable flight environment, you can  "prisim" up the level of difficulty by adding artificial turbulence later. 

I know everyone else's milage likely might vary, but it is coming up on Christmas & I thought I'd give it a shot.

Thank you for again for an otherwise excellent software program!

 

 

 

 

Answer 1

I recommend familiarizing yourself with the code; if you can code for this, than alright, but I also understand that modifying inner workings such as the button mappings would probably have to go through Ben Supnik or Austin Meyer before you decide to spend time working with the features.