Default ADF can't handle decimals
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Hey Nick, congrats on the new baby Caravan!
I’ve been doing a lot of flying in the South of the UK, where plenty of NDB frequencies use a .5 offset (e.g., EAS at EGHI is 391.5).
The problem is the default KR87 TSO simply can’t handle decimals. There's no way to dial them in, which makes these stations unusable in most planes. However, some aircraft like the Just Flight Pipers work fine, even though you still can't manually dial the decimal.
After digging into the logged values, I found that the planes that actually work have some sort of 'frequency hunting' built-in. If you tune 391, the aircraft checks 391.0 for about half a second; if it finds nothing, it automatically checks 391.5. If it finds a signal there, it locks it in and brings the needle to life, even though the instrument still only displays 391. If not, then it checks 391.0 again and cycles between them.
Is there anyway you could implement a similar frequency hunting algorithm?
Or maybe just bark at Asobo until they fix this nonsense so that devs don't have to work around it
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Hey Nick, congrats on the new baby Caravan!
I’ve been doing a lot of flying in the South of the UK, where plenty of NDB frequencies use a .5 offset (e.g., EAS at EGHI is 391.5).
The problem is the default KR87 TSO simply can’t handle decimals. There's no way to dial them in, which makes these stations unusable in most planes. However, some aircraft like the Just Flight Pipers work fine, even though you still can't manually dial the decimal.
After digging into the logged values, I found that the planes that actually work have some sort of 'frequency hunting' built-in. If you tune 391, the aircraft checks 391.0 for about half a second; if it finds nothing, it automatically checks 391.5. If it finds a signal there, it locks it in and brings the needle to life, even though the instrument still only displays 391. If not, then it checks 391.0 again and cycles between them.
Is there anyway you could implement a similar frequency hunting algorithm?
Or maybe just bark at Asobo until they fix this nonsense so that devs don't have to work around it -
@Jiblet From the manual, the section about the KR 87:
A secondary click the power knob will increment the standby frequency by 0.5 kHz, indicated with a dot to the left of the frequency.
@ploodovic said in Default ADF can't handle decimals:
secondary click the power knob
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