Steam Gauge Overhaul

@oldsimmer you probably forgot the the "IGNITION AND ENGINE START" to down position.
Try again.

If you start at night, and if the emergency light is off, your headlight should already be on (MSFS default feature).
The emergency light is directly connected to the battery bus so you can turn it on even with battery disconnected.
All other lights in the cabin are powered through the generator bus, but you can still manually close the gen bus to power the lights with the battery.

Procedure :

If not already, turn on emergency light (overhead panel, right side) switch on the battery master (pilot panel, left side) close the generator bus, "Gen Tie Man" > close (pilot panel, center/left) turn on the lights (overhead panel, left side) manually adjust each light knob

Then you can start your checklist. Beware that you will draw much more current from the battery and may have to wait the battery charge.

@punch try these tips

increase the torque slowly so governor can do its job right, otherwise prop rpm will go over redline; wait NG stabilize at 19.5% (wait at least 3s after reaching 19.5%) then move mixture to Slow Idle, you will notice the ITT should not go over ITT start redline and no damage to the engines.

I got these instructions from a video of a real King Air pilot, I have had no problem since then.

@cptdiac Black Square need to implement the GS needle to read the feed as per the developer guide provided by PMS50 for the GTN750

@bert-pieke said in Does anyone monitor this forum?:

A number of posts have had no answer.. in days.. weeks..

We dip in and out but it is mainly for forum members to discuss software. If you need with anby title we develop, puiblish or sell, your best bet is always to contact Just Flight support. There is a link on the website www.justflight.com or www.justtrains.net

@ape42 Thanks, this was useful to me.

For anyone looking to know which circuits to switch on for each of the lights, the event to use is "CIRCUIT SWITCH ON:" and below I've listed the Circuit numbers as well as screenshots of my SPAD potentiometer bindings for 3 rotary switches (increase side only, the decrease is the reverse to decrement but turning the circuits off is optional).

INSTRUMENT LIGHTS HARDWARE KNOB:
engine inst = 39
pilot inst = 40
copilot inst = 41
radio inst = 50
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CONSOLE LIGHTS HARDWARE KNOB:
circuit breaker 90
pedestal 38
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FLOOD LIGHTS HARDWARE KNOB:
pilot flood 36
copilot flood 37
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One bit of strangeness that happens is the first time I turn the lights up with my hardware they go to full power. EDIT: Solved this by adding an extra line with higher priority to first sync the Potentiometer value to the LVAR (Glareshield/Panel) value. It seems MSFS Potentiometers might start fully on, but the LVARs will start fully off.

Also 2 other things I'd like to map but can't find how are the No Smoking and Seatbelt light switches. Not sure if these are actually functional though? But they do click into position and move, I can't see any lights in the cabin. However I do have 2 spare switches in that position so I wouldn't mind mapping them. The default Asobo seatbelt/smoking airliner events don't work.

@ericj51 I haven't encountered anything like that. For sure not happening with any other aircraft? I initially thought of a controller or keyboard bind setting the trim when you don't expect it.

@ youall

I can also highly recommend:

Tom Clements - The KingAir Book

avail as digital download ....
Do a google ;-)

Oliver aka JetNoise

@qqwertzde said in KingAir: engine won't repair:

OK, I tried to reinstall the plane but still cannot use the left engine.
Can anyone tell me which file I have to delete to remove all failures? The plane is totally useless for me right now, and that's a real pity.

Have you tried contacting Just Flight support. They should be able to help with this kind of thing.
There is a link on the website www.justflight.com

https://www.justflight.com/support

https://support.justflight.com/support/solutions/folders/17000141439

https://support.justflight.com/support/tickets/new

Just forget my question. Realized I had a key binding that screwed up the Heading mode of the AP. Works fine now

Best
Patrick

Flew it two more times and luckily no repeat of this "random failure" (?)
:grinning_face:

I forgot to mention that this might be a RexWeather thing since for RW you must set MS2020 to CLEAR. I'm still checking
Ed

I've had that happen a few times since the King Air release as well.

Can't see it being the King Air. I thought it was my computer, USB hubs or pedals. Now that someone else is experiencing the same issue, I guess it could be related to Windows or MSFS updates.

@philipj
I noticed that as well.
I hope, Blacksquare can modell this more realistically...

Oliver

Hi @philipp
hope I didn't misunderstand your questions
by default weight must be like this https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/black-square-steam-gauge-overhaul-king-air-350i/548884/789

I suspect something wrong in your install, maybe try a uninstall via my PC -> application control panel -> uninstalling application then reinstall about the battery load, I m not really aware of it s capacity and load, just know it s fast drained
you can search if it always has been answered then ask on the official msfs forum since the thread is pretty active
regarding you pushback issue what are you using ?
try using shift + P shortcut with parking brake released shouldn't be an issue no matter the battery estate

hope I have helped