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@DrZGard said in King Air, KNS-80 RNAV, AP NAV mode does not work!:

In the Duke the RNAV will drive the autopilot but only if no GPS is selected on the panel, a workaround discovered during the Duke's development. BlackSquare does plan to implement this functionality at least in the Baron and Bonanza and hopefully the King Air and Caravan as well. I am really hoping for a King Air panel with the CTL radio heads flanking the center radar and below that the KNS81 and KLN90B replacing the KNS80. I'd even ante up a C note to help make that happen!

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Thanks, I got it. There are some nuances - but everything works adequately!

That's fine and makes sense in such a complex aircraft, but perhaps when you do the rework it might be worth mentioning in manual somewhere just in case anyone else gets confused!

Maybe it could be fixed on user's side before official patch comes.

Open camera.cfg and find "[CAMERADEFINITION.0]"
Then find "[CAMERADEFINITION.1]", then "[CAMERADEFINITION.2]" so on.
Make sure that the number is not skipped nor duplicated.
Manually renumber them when omission or duplication is found.
In my case the culprit was duplicated number.

And of course, always make a backup when you fiddle with original files.

Thx for your swift answer. Looking forward to it.

My hope is that they redo the king air for MS2024 using a bespoke model and sounds from Boris. In the meantime, I’ve been using the FTSim sound pack which is much better than default.

Thank you, it worked!
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Thank you Black Square for making this excellent addon!

I was able to reproduce the correct scenarios, and it looks like the ones I tried in my previous post were the expected outcomes.

I really enjoy the plane, and only see people praising it too!

I'll start with some additional questions, and then I'll write down what I did in this particular case and how they worked.

Is that ok that for flooded engine I was able to start the engine without leaning the mixture, and varying only the throttle? Not related to this issue: I read somewhere you're working on a similar tablet that Duke currently have: https://community.justflight.com/post/25841 . Is that really true? Not related: I've read in some places that the state saving has bugs, and that currently you're working on a fix? Is that also true? (I've created a ticket for that very recently.)

About the engine start. It looks like it works as in the manuals. (The environment: normally aspirated Bonanza, EHRD airport, 15 C outside temperature, at mean sea level, standard air pressure, "Clear Skies" weather in July. Propeller high RPM in all cases.)

(1),(2) The cold start and engine flooding case can be handled together. If the auxiliary fuel pump was running high, with full throttle and full mixture with 5, 15, 30, 60 seconds, then the correct throttle starting positions (with full mixture) were 5, 30, 50, 75 % respectively. (The percentages can be seen if the INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION TOOLTIPS are turned on.) In these cases, it is not possible to start the engine with any other combinations that are listed here: so for example, it's not possible to start the engine if the auxiliary fuel pump was running for 15 seconds, and the throttle (after the fuel pump was turned off) are 5 % or 50 %. So it's pretty good, and very interesting that yes, you have to be careful with the engine.

(3) I was running the engine with 22 IN HG manifold pressure for 4 minutes, the cylinder head temperature went to around 210 C, with cowl flaps open. Then, I turned off the engine for 12 minutes (mixture cut-off, throttle fully closed). And as the documentation says, I was unable to start the engine with the normal cold procedures, but I was able to start it with the hot procedures. Works as expected too. On the other hand, I tried with different combinations, and I was able to start the engine sometimes easily.

Thanks, it really looks like I just didn't understand how the engine works, but I learned a lot.

@gaboro Hi, I submitted a ticket about it for the Duke, which has the same problem. They've been working on it, but haven't found a solution.

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@Black-Square THANKS for your response and usual pro-attitude regarding researching and fixing things up Nick! That's why Black Square is so good!

I have the exact same issue. I'm not sure whether it is caused by the aircraft or the GTN750 software. Additionally I'm having quite a lot of CTDs.

Noticed that it does in fact cycle off and then back on but when testing earlier didn't see it happening like when using the mouse to click the toggle switch. Tried to edit but time limited to when we can edit a previous post.

Hello fosl
I mapped a button to "AUTO THROTTLE TO GA" in MSFS Options, and it works well.

I haven’t tried that yet, but I will see what I can do. Thanks for trying.

+1 here. Using the pms50, which works beautifully, but the 430 doesn’t sync up so it’s not much use. Fantastic plane otherwise though…