The Black Square fleet-wide ILS tracking issue continues
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Hello,
Sadly, it would appear the Caravan retained the ILS tacking issue that plagues most Black Square aircraft in MSFS 2024, when using either the KLN90B GPS unit or the KNS-81 RNAV suite. My experience suggests the ILS tracking issue does not occur when using either the GNS suite or the PMS units. I have not tested with other avionics.
The issue is the same as with other Black Square aircraft. The autopilot fails to capture the localizer and continues in HDG mode. It does not help to disengage the autopilot and then re-engage. I found no workaround to have the autopilot capture the ILS when using the aforementioned avionics.
It is somewhat disappointing that this issue still exists. What is the point of throwing in all these units as "options" when they don't work?
Clearly, it's something that Nick needs to resolve - the KLN90B works as a charm elsewhere, and the KNS-81 is a Black Square-developed suite. I hope this bug will finally be resolved.
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@kityatyi What other planes make space for the KLN90B? I might have to take a look at them.
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Thanks! Somehow I hadn't noticed it was an option in the Aerostar. Time for some more fun.
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My C208 KAP140 sometimes just completely ignores the ILS too. I'm starting to think it's a issue with my peripherals.
What's your setup? Do you use any external radio/autopilot hardware? I use a fairly niche thing called a Class Echo, interfacing with SPAD.next, to control various systems, radio, autopilot, etc. I haven't tested enough to figure out what's actually going on, but because I've just imported and adapted a generic aircraft profile for the C208 that mostly uses default sim bindings and not the LVARs in the manual, I'm suspicious there's an issue there. The next time I have time to sit down and troubleshoot I'll be making sure to see that my setup only uses LVARs specified in the manual, and see if that helps.
When I just fire up the sim without this hardware, I'm usually not able to recreate any issues. Swapping between TDS GTN 750 nav and VLOC from both the unit and the main panel buttons seems to work as expected.
FWIW, the LOC tracking isn't working too well regardless, often happily settling 2-4 degrees off the LOC, but I've not flown a lot of ILSes in this thing yet so I don't have a good data set.