MSG GPS buttons

borisvp

Hi,

I like this plane, but one thing is annoying: The MSG GPS button, lighting up in red every other minute or so. In a real plane, I'd remove the bulb, but here? Just clicking the button over and over again...

I could live with it if this button could be assigned to a hardware button, but I can't find any variable or event. Is there one?

And would this behavior be different with the Pro version of the PMS GTN or the TDS?

Boris

Black Square

Sorry to hear that's annoying you. Unfortunately, the triggering of GPS messages is obviously up to the GPS developers, but I believe them to all be realistic. Luckily, nothing is impossible with my aircraft, so you can trigger that button however you like, or disconnect it entirely.

To push the button with hardware, set "L:var_gpsMessageButton1Latching" = 2 or "var_gpsMessageButton2Latching" = 2.

If you would like to pull the virtual lightbulbs out of the indicators, you can remove the two following blocks of code from AnalogTBM.xml in ...[Community Folder]\bksq-aircraft-tbm850\SimObjects\Airplanes\bksq-aircraft-tbm850\model.

<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GT_Material_Emissive_Code">
	<EMISSIVE_CODE>
		(A:CIRCUIT ON:@Com1Circuit, bool) (L:var_gpsMessageButton1Latching, number) 1 == and (E:SIMULATION TIME, second) 2 * 2 % 1 &lt; and 0.5 *
		d (&gt;L:var_GpsMessageButton1_readonly, bool)
	</EMISSIVE_CODE>
</UseTemplate>

<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_GT_Material_Emissive_Code">
	<EMISSIVE_CODE>
		(A:CIRCUIT ON:@Com2Circuit, bool) (L:var_gpsMessageButton2Latching, number) 1 == and (E:SIMULATION TIME, second) 2 * 2 % 1 &lt; and 0.5 *
		d (&gt;L:var_GpsMessageButton2_readonly, bool)
	</EMISSIVE_CODE>
</UseTemplate>

I hope that helps make your experience just a little bit better!

Randolf

You could check settings of your gps device to see what types of messages you have enabled and maybe disable those you don't need like airspaces, traffic, etc.