Steam Gauge Overhaul

@Bigmarty said in GNS 530 Does not turn on in Caravan:

Good morning. I had no AP in the Black Square 208. As shown somewhere in the forum I changed the wording in the Working-title file and the AP now seems to work.

But I no longer have the GNS 530 (blank screen). Have installs from Marketplace and Content Manager, have un-installed and reinstalled the 208 more than once, have tried with nothing in the Community folder except the black square 208.

It works in other aircraft.

Need the GNS 530 - any suggestions would be great TIA.

Do you have a backup copy of the original files you changed? The changes that were discussed here (at least the AP and mode selection ones I'm aware of) haven't been needed for a while; the latest copy of the Caravan installer has the correct files. If something was mistyped along the way it might have broken the 530 on board.

@PerrySpace said in analog Caravan and analog King Air 350i in the MSFS 2024? How is it done?:

Is there a general problem, so they would´nt do it in MSFS2024. Or is there a correct way to make them funktionible? Do some one know the correct or singular working way to bring them up?

As stated above, the rules keep changing... but for now (SU2), you can make these addons work by copying the 2020 base aircraft to your Community folder. For the King Air, that would be the entire asobo-aircraft-kingair350 folder.

@Black-Square I noticed the Bezel as an install, ok,...it's not.

@Bert-Pieke I'm guessing the professional edition will be a paid upgrade? I'm really chomping at the bits to buy the 2020 baron and try to get it working in 2024.

Yes, thanks again to you guys, RPGGamerous and Black Square Dev, you guys have been most helpful, and so I got right to it and now things are back on track, I didn't waste no time because I wanted to get to the bottom of all this as the King Air is my all time favorite Turbo Prop, and yes, this Analog King Air realism is not lacking in the cockpit like the default Aircraft, there has been an extraordinary amount of attention to detail placed on this add-on so I don't anticipate any future issues as its pretty solid but I appreciate the offer of help if needed, you can never know for sure.

Yes exactly. One GTN750 can do holds on airways (which is required in real life), the other (PMSS50) cannot. That's why I moved to TDS. But it sounds like you are saying the PMSS50 has its own AP logic which I would have to give higher weighting vs holds, so I will probably switch back. Win some and lose some. Regardless, your aircraft fleet are outstanding.

@rbringh I bet what happened to me was related to the beta -- I forgot that I had joined the beta briefly, but then left because I wanted to join some group flights with folks who weren't on the beta. Strange that in my case the planes were actually removed from my Community folder though.

You have me thinking regarding the KI 525A. Someone who is spending that much money on an aircraft equipped w/ a GTN750, RA, tip tanks, etc. is almost certainly going to invest in an CDI that has a motor and auto-aligns to the next leg in the GPS flight plan, do you agree? My understanding of what you are saying is the KI 525 doesn't have a motor for CRS changes, therefore you have to set it on every turn along a GPS FP in the actual aircraft?

This seems to be even more of a question in my mind for someone investing in a (to-be) turbo prop kit. So if my understanding is correct, then do you have a different course deviation indicator instrument for the professional version coming soon?

I'm not going to ask you "how soon" as I'm sure you get that all to often currently.

Thanks for your perspective.

Kirk

Thank you. YES, anticipating the Bonanza Professional. Have picked up my flying in the BS Bonanza in anticipation of the turbo prop Bonanza.

@Black-Square said in Turbo Bonanza Manifold Pressure:

All of this and more will feature in the Bonanza Professional, which you will be able to get at a significant discount, as an Analog Bonanza owner.

I am really looking forward to this aircraft, as the A36 is currently my favorite aircraft in the sim. Can you confirm one thing for me, namely that the BK ADI and HSI have updated exterior dimensions, 3.55" W x 3.37" H.

Edit: The screenshots look really good, so I believe my question has been answered..

Thanks!

@ppmd I had already tried this but even with the blacksquare in my community folder I dont see it. It comes up with the kenmore livery and then i get only a frame when I am in the outside view. If I choose the default I do get the glasscockpit. So I have no idea what is the problem. I only have moved my community folder to the drive where msfs2024 is installed so noit the default. But all mods that are in that folder are working fine.
I have no idea why it is not working with me, but thanks for your reply.

@Black-Square said in Analog King Air 350 - RPN code for Anti Ice !:

Writing 1 to those variables will turn the propeller de-ice on, and 0 will turn it off.

It works, thank you!

Of course!

You will also want to turn on circuit #16, by setting A:CIRCUIT SWITCH ON:16.

Sorry that you still have to go looking for variables like this in my older aircraft. In all my newer aircraft, including the Caravan Professional, I've tried to make every custom interaction settable with just one L:Var, and they are all included in the manual.

Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with in the meantime! It's very quick and easy for me to look up these kinds of things in my own code, so I am always happy to save my users the time and frustration of trying to figure it out themselves.

It works, thank you !

From what you're describing, if you saw both the BAT TIE OPEN and the BAT CHARGE annunciator lights, this means that the battery disconnected from the hot battery bus due to an overheat, not a MTBF triggered failure. (I mention this only as part of my looking at the code to identify your problem.) If you didn't see those two annunciators at the same time, it's also possible that you might have hit the battery emergency disconnect switch on the left of the pilot's subpanel.

From the looks of it, vPilot must use the "CIRCUIT_GENERAL_PANEL" generic electrical circuit to identify when your radios should be working or not. I have that circuit connected to the hot battery bus to serve as the King Air's "avionics memory" circuit. Unfortunately, using only one circuit to determine if an aircraft's radios are functioning is quite limiting for more complex aircraft. I also don't blame the developers of vPilot, since that's an easily accessible variable that would usually be on the avionics bus. Knowing what I know now, I would not have set up the King Air this way, as I have learned just how many 3rd party addons rely on that variable to read the avionics power state. I will make a note of this for myself for future development.

Answering your question, I don't believe there is a way to reset that failure without reloading the aircraft, unfortunately. Again, I would have included a reset for that failure with the weather radar's "recharge battery" option if I were designing the aircraft today.

@Black-Square Will do thanks for your help.

Excellent. Glad it's working. Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you!

Is your problem that the aircraft is not following the GPS course as depicted by the HSI's CDI? If you have correctly set up the GPS, selected GPS as the active navigation source, engaged the autopilot with NAV mode selected, and the aircraft flies through the desired course, then this is probably an avionics incompatibility problem. Usually this is an outdated item in your community folder, or an old modification that is no longer supported. I suspect that if you temporarily remove everything from your community folder, the aircraft will follow the desired course. If you want additional advice on what could be causing the problem, the Just Flight technical support team has gotten very good at diagnosing these exact problems with my aircraft, since they can make use of so many interacting 3rd party GPS addons