GTN 750 option

Bert Pieke

The GTN 750 now comes with a 650 as well, but no option to just have the 750 as we have had up til now..
For the GNS 530, there are two options: 530+430 and 530 only.
Can the same options be offered for the 750?
I quite liked the previous 750 option which is no longer selectable..

SuperKaro2014

@bert-pieke Agree with you on this one. The flexibility would be very welcome... and even the 650 on it’s own would be a cool option in the Pipers.

BR Søren

Chase1399

I too would like the GTN750 Option over the 650 option. It's bigger screen and added functionality and is better. And was also a key factor in my decision to purchase the aircraft.
Thanks,
Dave.

Martyn

@chase1399 The current option features both the GTN 750 and 650

Chase1399

@martyn said in GTN 750 option:

@chase1399 The current option features both the GTN 750 and 650

Oh ok. I haven't DL'ed the update yet, so i didn't know. Thanks for clearing that up. : )
Dave

petze

@superkaro2014 said in GTN 750 option:

@bert-pieke Agree with you on this one. The flexibility would be very welcome... and even the 650 on it’s own would be a cool option in the Pipers.

BR Søren

As far as I know, it is currently not possible to have a configuration with the 650 as a second panel and at the same time provide a configuration with the same unit as the first panel.

I would really love, however, to have a configuration with just the 750, as we did before. Also, this eats less fps than the 750/650 combo.

SuperKaro2014

@petze Ah, OK. Then I certainly also prefer the 750 alone.

@Martyn Can we have the pure 750 option back in the next release? Assume it is possible since the Arrow v0.8.0 and GTN v2.0.0 provided that functionality.

Bert Pieke

@superkaro2014

Agreed!

ancrm114

Just bought the bundle. I to would like a GTN 750 only option.

Also an option without a GPS would be nice as well. But I can definitely live with just leaving the G100 off.

ancrm114

So as I was setting up my controls for the PA-28R in SPAD.neXt, I came across the LVARS for the display of the various GPS avionics. I found a way that seems to work 100% to disable and remove the GPS100 from the stack and put in a blanking panel. I wrote this out as simple pseudocode so you can implement it in whatever way you access/change LVARS.

IF GPS100_VIZ=1

THEN

GPS100_BLANKING_VIZ=1
GPS100_VIZ=0
GPS100_OFFON=0

END

I also tried to get the GTN650 to not show when the GTN750 option was selected and instead show the factory COM2/NAV2 radio. I succeeded it getting it to display. But it seems the COM2/NAV2 radio is INOP as the dials don't update the display frequency and you cant turn the radio to the OFF position.

Still I personally use a Logicech Radio Panel to control the radios and that still works fine. Hopefully JF implements this in a future update. Regardless if you do want to disable the GTN650 and display the factory COM2/NAV2 even though its INOP here is how I do it.

IF PMS550_GTN650_INSTALLED=1

THEN

PMS550_GTN650_INSTALLED=0
PMS550_GTN650_RUNNING=0

END

IF GTN750_VIZ=1

THEN

GPS100_BLANKING_VIZ=1

END

SuperKaro2014

Thanks for this @ancrm114
While I am not much of a ‘modder’ or programmer, your post makes me hopeful that adding extra GPS options to the Arrows is a relatively simple thing for the JF team 😀