King air: How to map the CLIMB & DSC buttons to a controller?

[Dreamsofwings]

I am looking to map the CLIMB and DSC AP buttons to a physical controller but not sure where to start. Do these already point to a regular keyboard command or is this a Spad.Next kind of job?

[hangar_101]

@dreamsofwings I could not find an easy key binding for CLIMB & DSC so I had to build some logic using SPAD.NEXT, below follow some examples

I use a Stream Deck to simulate the buttons

CLIMB button pressed and Indicated Altitude > 30000 => speed 120 kias

CLIMB button pressed and Indicated Altitude between 20000 and 30000 => speed 130 kias

I built the same logic for

CLIMB button pressed and Indicated Altitude between 20000 and 10000 => speed 140 kias

CLIMB button pressed and Indicated Altitude less than 10000 => speed 160 kias

For DSC there's a formula to calculate the speed

It's not simple but it works just fine!

Hope it helps you!

[Dreamsofwings]

@anderson Hey thanks so much for that. I've never touched Spad.next but I think this might have to be the moment I step up and use it. :)