The Gear

The settings page offers a variety of options to adjust the behaviour of the application to your liking. From top to bottom, the settings are explained below.

• Auto-Hide Delay: This controls how long PACX can remain inactive before it minimizes to tray. This option also allows for automatic hiding to be disabled.
• Keep PACX on Top of Other Windows: This option forces PACX to remain topmost.
• Run First Time Setup on Next Launch: This option causes PACX to re-run the first run set up the next time it is opened.
• Vocal Auto Accept Time: This option controls how long PACX will display the preview of an interaction made via vocal recognition before it accepts it. Auto-accept can be disabled via this option as well.
• simBrief Username: You can enter your simBrief username here to have PACX automatically import your latest flight plan.
• Speaker Device: This selects the audio device cabin public addresses are played on.
• Headset Device: This selects the audio device crew interaction is played on.
• Crew Volume: This controls the volume of the spoken audio from the crew.
• Boarding Music Volume: This controls the volume of the boarding music.
• Boarding Ambience Volume: This controls the ambient boarding/deboarding sound volume.
• Mute Audio in External View*: This option causes PACX to mute its sounds when the simulator reports it is in an external view.
• Incident Frequency: This option controls how often in-flight incidents will occur.
• Display Messages Inside the Simulator: This shows essential status updates from PACX at the top of your simulator.
• Playback Voice for Public Addresses: This option enables or disables the playback of audio recorded during vocal recognition when the interaction is completed.
• Apply Filter Effect to Custom Audio Files: This option specifies if PACX will apply the speaker effect to boarding music or the custom safety demonstration file(s).
• Play Ambient Boarding/Deboarding Sounds: This option specifies if PACX will play the ambient sounds of passengers and crew moving around during the boarding and deboarding phases of the flight.
• Boarding/Deboarding Time: This option allows for realistic, short, or instant boarding.
• Seatbelt Sign Assistance: This option decides how much control PACX will have over the seatbelt sign. “None” means that the pilot has full control, “Partial” means that PACX will turn the seatbelt sign on automatically during critical phases of flight only, and “Full” means that PACX will manage it throughout all phases of flight.
• Flight Crew Voice: This option determines if you will hear spoken audio from the flight crew when announcements are made and who the speaker announces themself as.
• Play Seatbelt Sign Chime: This option enables an audible ding that is heard when the seatbelt sign is changed.
• Show/Hide Popup: This hotkey or joystick button will allow you to quickly open PACX when it is minimized to the tray or hide it when it is open. Press escape to cancel mapping or backspace while mapping to remove it.
• Activate Vocal Input: This hotkey or joystick button will begin a vocal interaction. Just like the above, press escape to cancel or backspace while mapping to remove.
• Toggle HUD: This hotkey or joystick button will toggle the HUD.
• Toggle Seatbelt Sign: This hotkey or joystick button will toggle the seatbelt sign, if possible.
• Export Data to Text File(s): This setting enables the export of various data to text files (for use in overlays for Twitch streams, etc.). The exports can be customized by editing the Exports.xml file in %localappdata%\PACX.
• Data Export Path: This controls the default path for exported data files.
• Enable Discord Rich Presence: This setting controls whether or not PACX will update Discord Rich Presence data (if installed/available in the computer running PACX).
• IFE Port: This option changes the PACX IFE port. It should not be modified unless needed.
• Network Port: This option changes the PACX network SDK port. It should not be modified unless needed.