PMS and TDS

glapira

Dear All,

I hope you are well. I own the Caravan, the King Air and the TBM. I also own premium versions of the TDS and the PMS.

On the TBM, having both the TDS and the PMS installed I can press the blue sim card and it swaps between both. I can’t do the same on the Caravan or the KingAir.

I want to use the PMS but not uninstall the TDS as some other addons use it.

Any idea?

Thanks a lot!

Giorgio

Black Square

Sorry that I have not brought that change back into those older aircraft yet. You can either toggle the following variable through developer mode, or bind a hardware control or keyboard entry to toggle it with SPAD, FSUIPC, or similar:

L:TDSGTNXI_INSTALLED

If you would like to add this functionality to the aircraft, you can add the following block of code to the AnalogCaravan.XML, or AnalogKingAir.XML.

<Component ID="GTN_750_SD" Node="GTN_750_SD">
	<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GT_Push_Button">
		<NODE_ID>GTN_750_SD</NODE_ID>
		<LEFT_SINGLE_CODE>
			(L:TDSGTNXI_INSTALLED, bool) ! (&gt;L:TDSGTNXI_INSTALLED, bool)
		</LEFT_SINGLE_CODE>
		<WWISE_EVENT_1>as3000_big_knob_turn</WWISE_EVENT_1>
		<NORMALIZED_TIME_1>0.1</NORMALIZED_TIME_1>
		<WWISE_EVENT_2>autopilot_knob_push_button_on</WWISE_EVENT_2>
		<NORMALIZED_TIME_2>0.5</NORMALIZED_TIME_2>
		<ANIM_LAG>800</ANIM_LAG>

		<PART_ID>GTN_750_SD</PART_ID>
		<TOOLTIP_TITLE></TOOLTIP_TITLE>
		<TOOLTIPID>Swap PMS/TDS</TOOLTIPID>
	</UseTemplate>
</Component>

In AnalogCaravan.XML, it can go below this line:

<!--		Instrument Configuration Switches 		-->

and in Analog KingAir.XML, it can go below this line:

<!-- Radio Builder -->

The next time I update the King Air and Caravan, I will either include this change, or I will have a different, more user friendly, method for choosing your radio configuration entirely.

I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions!

glapira

Thanks a lot for the quick reply! I will try it tomorrow and report back! Great support as usual!

glapira

@Black-Square

Thanks. It works well in the Caravan but on the KingAir, when I press the Blue SD the GTN stays black.

Any idea?

Thanks!

Attached is how I have changed the XML.

<!-- Radio Builder -->

	<Component ID="GTN_750_SD" Node="GTN_750_SD">
	<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GT_Push_Button">
		<NODE_ID>GTN_750_SD</NODE_ID>
		<LEFT_SINGLE_CODE>
			(L:TDSGTNXI_INSTALLED, bool) ! (&gt;L:TDSGTNXI_INSTALLED, bool)
		</LEFT_SINGLE_CODE>
		<WWISE_EVENT_1>as3000_big_knob_turn</WWISE_EVENT_1>
		<NORMALIZED_TIME_1>0.1</NORMALIZED_TIME_1>
		<WWISE_EVENT_2>autopilot_knob_push_button_on</WWISE_EVENT_2>
		<NORMALIZED_TIME_2>0.5</NORMALIZED_TIME_2>
		<ANIM_LAG>800</ANIM_LAG>

		<PART_ID>GTN_750_SD</PART_ID>
		<TOOLTIP_TITLE></TOOLTIP_TITLE>
		<TOOLTIPID>Swap PMS/TDS</TOOLTIPID>
	</UseTemplate>
	</Component>

	<Component ID="Com1SelectSwitch" NODE="Com1SelectSwitch">

Black Square

I just check on my end, and it seems to work fine. It did take 5-10 seconds for the PMS 750 to start initializing, though.

The only other potential cause I can think of is an old bug with the PMS50 where it would only look at the avionics switch event for power, instead of the correct circuit. If you have external hardware, such as a honeycomb yoke, it might be sending the avionics switch event without you even knowing. There was a fix on the PMS50 side for this, but I also had to make a tiny change to the aircraft. Try changing the very first entry in the King Air's Panel.XML from <Name>GTN750</Name> to <Name>GTN750_INT</Name> and see if that helps.

glapira

@Black-Square

Thanks a lot!

I managed to make it work by changing the "_INT" bit in both panel.xml located on panel, and panel.noreg.

I hope you don't mind, I have posted a quick and dirty mod for both airplanes on flightsim.to:

Please review it, and if unacceptable or if it goes against any rule I will be happy to delete it.

I just thought it would help other people ;-)

https://flightsim.to/file/67588/blacksquare-b350-king-air-analog-gtn-pms-swap-mod

https://flightsim.to/file/67587/blacksquare-c208b-caravan-analog-gtn-pms-swap-mod

I hope that is Ok.

Take care.

Giorgio

Black Square

Glad it's working for you. My only request is that you remove the mod when those features are added in the next update, and leave a note on the mod page telling people that it is no longer needed, and should be removed from their community folder. Tech Support gets an incredible number of tickets each week that are the result of some old "fix" downloaded from a mod website, so I do my best to limit the number of those in the wild. Thank you!

glapira

100%. I have written that in the description, and will ensure this is removed then. I don’t want to cause more trouble! ;) but thanks a lot for your help. This is first class support!

Black Square

Thank you. I do my best!