Hmm... RNAV and NAV navigation Bonanza
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Excellent example, Orlaam. Thanks for sharing. Your information was very accurate, though I would argue that, archaic as its interface may seem, the KNS felt like magic to a lot of pilots before GPS/LORAN/OMEGA, haha.
The code behind the KNS is pretty bulletproof, so nothing should have to be reset. You're correct that the real autopilot can follow the CDI, but this is difficult in MSFS, as the only way for an outside navigation source to interact with the native autopilot is as a "GPS". I recently discovered a way that I might be able to control it without making the KNS essentially a "fake" GPS, but that's a conversation for another day.
There is a tutorial in each of my manuals for the KNS devices, if you have any further questions. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
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Glad to know I figured it out. Not bad for someone without any pilot training, just years of magenta line travels in the sim, lol. I did kinda teach myself NDB and VOR navigation years ago in FS9, but I've not really used it much since. Hopefully the OP can see what's going on and make it work. Me? I'm going back to my safe zone, the GTN rofl
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Hey, it's good to get out of your comfort zone! You clearly have that old-school problem solving ability if you figured it out that fast. Thanks for posting your example. I have a tutorial on YouTube, but I released it with my Caravan, so it's quite old by now. Maybe I'll do another one for the Duke, especially if I can figure out a clever way to steer the autopilot with it.
Thanks for this thread, actually. It made me realized that a bug I encountered with the KLN90B a couple weeks ago could actually be leveraged to control the autopilot directly without any waypoints or legs!
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Hmm, yes, I belive I understand how the KNS-81 should work, as I would do or did the same steps as you did, I belive. On my Bonanza panel, even with a VOR (not using RNAV at all) in range, the needle on the VOR instrument did not parallel move, except some jitter, even when turing the CDI 360 degrees around.
As I mentioned, I did get it to work the first time I used it, and did another test now where it seemed to work. Will try a third attempt on the route where I had an issue.
And now got a better map for this route, it seems like the map-service I used presented a DME facility and VORDME in the same way. I guess that must have been the issue, that I plotted a DME and not a VORDME.
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Btw, here is a screenshot of the decimals I would like to get rid of:
(several of my stored WPT have som RAD and DST decimals, that the knobs are unable to change/remove)
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Those are normal. It's a tenths place. DST, as in distance, would be 18.2 nautical miles from the VOR. 185.5 would be exactly that, a half-degree between 185 and 186. KNS-81 User Manual
I'm confused.
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The decimals are changed by pulling out the adjustment knob on the right of the unit with the tertiary mouse click. For reference, from the "Direct Flight to Airport Tutorial" in the manual:
"Should your desired radial include a decimal component, the inner rotary knob can be pulled and rotated for decimal entry."
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Oh, my bad, thought it was an error that had stayed over from my mapping effort. Probably decimals I sat while reading that tutorial, and forgot about it, as I never mapped that function to the Radio Control Panel. Thanks for the insight.
